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dorkweed

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  1. What causes the heat exchanger to stop "exchanging" heat???? Scale from the water used in our trucks coolant??? Plugged passages due to the same????
  2. Makes the stove draft better…………………..aka, burn more efficiently. 90 degree bends and long horizontal runs should be kept to a minimum on a wood stove for best performance.
  3. It's gonna be a nasty, raw night tonite at "Soldier Field" in Chitcago when the Cowboy and Bears play tonite on Monday Night Football. It's about 12* now at my place North of Chitcago near the Wisconsin border, and the temps are expected to drop well down into the single digits after dark.That's only part of it though………………………WNW winds howling to 20+mph are blowing snow and making some nasty wind chills!!!Got the wood stove cranking at about 600-650* stove top and my house is about 72*…………………got some brew ski's in the fridge…………making some chili……………………..I'm ready for the game. I'm no longer a football fan, but I do like watching extreme cold/snow/rain games!!
  4. While you were driving somewhere, did you drive thru someone else's "leak" causing it to be on the "inside" of the wheel well liner???
  5. Remember the "old saying"………………….."4WD only gets you stuck worse"!!
  6. Most women prefer the 2, 45* bends in the pipe (like you have) vs. the 1, 90*!!
  7. I just hate the idea of being self-reliant…………………..so does the gas companyI get all my firewood from the gas station down the road……………….it's so convenient
  8. It's 6:17AM at my house here in "The Peoples Republic of Illinois", and it's 4*F. Going pheasant hunting again this morning!! Later.
  9. One of my best friends e-mailed it to me. He's a Lab guy also………..he has one of my pups. Anyhow, we do similar stuff with our Labs when directing our dogs on a "blind retrieve". A blind retrieve is when you send the dog for a bird he hasn't seen fall. You direct the dog with whistle, hand and voice signals. Beer afterward is optional!!!!
  10. Twas a balmy 14*F here this AM………………….I went pheasant hunting!! Worked up a good sweat.
  11. My "little" wood stove weighs in at almost 400#………………….wonder what that bad boy goes???
  12. 199,427 as of today.
  13. Must not have gotten up at "0 Dark 30" in the AM to reload the "stove"……………..hey??!!!
  14. But aren't those "boyfriends"??!!
  15. "Google", "crate training" and you'll find a "myriad" of info. Those links can explain "crate training" better than I can and make it sound a whole lot better also!!! I've done it with 4 Labs now!!!
  16. Once you get her "thawed" out, run about a quart of 2 stroke in her. It's "technically" not an "anti-gel" agent……………..but it has a lower "pour point" than straight diesel. Thus; when you add it to straight diesel; it has to lower the "gel/pour point" of straight diesel!!!!! Just saying of course…………………I'm just a "flat-lander"!!!!!
  17. It'd seem to me that CEO is trying to answer a question that's never been asked. Soylent Green - - - Updated - - - Darn Lima beans!!!
  18. Show me a dog that can do something………………………….and I'll show you Lab that can do it better!!!!
  19. http://www.browndogmafia.com/hof_labradors.html
  20. I've had good luck with Cooper tires. I'm running the Cooper Discoverer AT3's now, and ran the Discoverer ATR's before that on my '04.5. Stock size…….LT265/70 17E.IIRC, I read a post here that said Cooper was recently sold though. Don't know how that'll affect tire quality in the future.
  21. Russ, I also worked in a meat packing plant in Amarillo, TX right out of college. They used AA/pure ammonia as the refrigerant in the coolers. Seemed like we could always smell a bit of ammonia in them coolers. Sometimes it got so bad we had to stop the line until it was fixed.Depending on "atmospheric" conditions the AA vapor can do anything. Normally the AA vapor is lighter than air, and will rise. However; there are times and conditions that will cause it to hug the ground. You saw that in the video…………………though part of that was the close proximity to the source of the vapor.