Garage and road project

[Mags]

I hope that you are going to install a vented hood with the stove.

I wasn’t thinking of doing so. It’s not going to get a lot of use plus it’s a very big room with lots of air leaks.

Converted to propane properly, the stove burners should produce a pretty blue flame without any yellow or other colors. Clean burning propane produces heat and water. In small tight spaces the risk is sucking all the oxygen out of the air. You don't have that scenario with your big leaky building.

[Mags]

Back to the rock. I had been putting off pot hole repair, but we had enough drier weather, that I decided to get started on the repairs. Load of 3/4minus gravel, $575 for 15 ton, slightly less than a full dump truck. Couple years ago, about $300. Now that Knife River has bought out all or most of the local quarries, feels like we're getting gouged.

[Sir Henry]

Back to the rock. I had been putting off pot hole repair, but we had enough drier weather, that I decided to get started on the repairs. Load of 3/4minus gravel, $575 for 15 ton, slightly less than a full dump truck. Couple years ago, about $300. Now that Knife River has bought out all or most of the local quarries, feels like we're getting gouged.

Prices here are a little less but not by much. I had just over 100 loads and negotiated a better price.

[Sir Henry]

I bought this propane range/oven today. I won’t be able to pick it up till Monday. It will be the perfect garage/shop stove for cooking. It’s used and I didn’t pay much for it.

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I get the 420 pound LP tank in about a month. I think 100 gallons will feed just this stove for a couple years.

[Mags]

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I get the 420 pound LP tank in about a month. I think 100 gallons will feed just this stove for a couple years.

Our 100 gal tank feeds a 6 burner kitchen stove used daily; and a Weber BBQ used 2-3 times a week. Since 2014 I've had it topped off twice. I assume most of your cooking is done in the house, so the 100 gal for that garage/shop stove I'd expect it to last well more than 5yrs.

[Sir Henry]

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I get the 420 pound LP tank in about a month. I think 100 gallons will feed just this stove for a couple years.

Our 100 gal tank feeds a 6 burner kitchen stove used daily; and a Weber BBQ used 2-3 times a week. Since 2014 I've had it topped off twice. I assume most of your cooking is done in the house, so the 100 gal for that garage/shop stove I'd expect it to last well more than 5yrs.

Thanks for that information. I can buy a 250 gallon for almost the same price as a 100. The 100 I can put the right up against the building but the 250 needs to be placed further away which would place it in the road.

I’ll eventually hook a Blackstone griddle to it also but both might only be used 30 times a year.

[Mags]

... both might only be used 30 times a year.

At that rate you might never have to refill it.

[Sir Henry]

I tried to plow the road up to the shop with no success. It was just to deep and I couldn’t find the road on the slope.

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The snow piles are higher than the tractor.

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With the stuff out of the garage I can park the Outback inside and the van fits in the upper shop. I haven’t driven it in three months. I start it every few weeks.

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[Sir Henry]

I walked up to the shop and started a fire.

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The temperature was 22F inside and in an hour it was 52. Warm enough to watch a John Wayne movie.

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[daytime dave]

Looks pretty cozy.

[Hatchdog]

I tried to plow the road up to the shop with no success. It was just to deep and I couldn’t find the road on the slope.
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The snow piles are higher than the tractor.
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With the stuff out of the garage I can park the Outback inside and the van fits in the upper shop. I haven’t driven it in three months. I start it every few weeks.
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I’m sure you have seen them around but I use snow stakes to mark the edges of my driveway. As you can appreciate once the snow is on the ground all our reference points disappear. Of course I put these in before the ground freezes.

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[Sir Henry]

I tried to plow the road up to the shop with no success. It was just to deep and I couldn’t find the road on the slope.
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The snow piles are higher than the tractor.
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With the stuff out of the garage I can park the Outback inside and the van fits in the upper shop. I haven’t driven it in three months. I start it every few weeks.
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I’m sure you have seen them around but I use snow stakes to mark the edges of my driveway. As you can appreciate once the snow is on the ground all our reference points disappear. Of course I put these in before the ground freezes.


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I have a couple dozen and put them out in the snow. If I put them out early they get buried quickly. I could still put them out now and mak the upper driveway. It’s just not that important to me.

[Sir Henry]

I walked up to the shop today and started a fire.

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I haven’t had many fires since December so still have lots of logs left. I suspect with the warmer weather I’ll be up here more.

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The fire brought the temperature up to 72 and I was able to watch a western in warmth.

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[markiver54]

Awesome!
My kinda' hangout.

[BigAl52]

I watched Tombstone again the other day. Ill be your Huckleberry was sure good again

[Sir Henry]

Awesome!
My kinda' hangout.

Thanks. It’s really coming along nice. I need the internet up there so I can watch the Brewers.

I watched Tombstone again the other day. Ill be your Huckleberry was sure good again

I watched an episode of Wagon Train then a Kung Fu movie. As I watched I put some hand tools away that I took up from the house. It is after all a real working shop.

[Sir Henry]

I bought a 250 gallon propane tank and hauled it home today. I’ll be installing it up behind the garage in the next few days to fuel a range/oven.

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I mentioned in my last post that it had a two-stage regulator that would allow me to fuel the stove and refill smaller bottles. That is incorrect it just allows me to fuel the stove without having to add another regulator. What allows me to fill smaller bottles is this bottom feeder which draws liquid instead of gasses off the top. It wasn’t cheap and it will take me 20 refills to pay for itself.

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I hauled it home with 20 gallons which is enough to use before the cheap summer prices yet light enough to lift with my tractor. With 200 gallons my tractor wouldn’t be able to lift it.

[Sir Henry]

I got a lot done today. I unloaded the propane tank although it’s just sitting on top of the snow. I have some concrete pavers I’ll sit them on when the snow melts.

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Then I loaded the propane range and hauled it up to the shop.

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It’s in place but not hooked up.

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A neighbor also gave me a ten chair table. It’s to beat up for a house but will be perfect in the shop.

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[Hatchdog]

Looks great Sir Henry, you’re busy as usual.

[GeoBoy]

With the stove/oven and a place to seat 10 guests it looks like Thanksgiving dinner is at your place this year.