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got almost the whole thing bricked today. cut all the bricks except the final row last week and cemented everthing in today took 7 1/2 hrs. all is done except for the last row which I will cut to fit tomorrow. pre mixed refractory cement is soooo easy to work with. I got some disposible plastic pastry bags piped it on pushed them together bam easy. Finished the stack on saturday. just need to get some siver/grey High temp silacone for the storm colar but I am firing it up on Tuesday !!!! can't wait.:D :D :D
Got to meet snohiker today. its really nice to put a face to people you talk with on here!!! It's was nice to talk maple to someone other than my wife because she is sick of hearing about it.
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What a great day. My sister and I spent the afternoon working up some wood.....for the next season since this years wood is all ready done. I can't believe that it is November and we were working out side in t-shirts....Just love it!:)
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Today was warmer then it was back in September. Got all my pallats torn apart or cut into firewood. Found some that are made out of real thin oak and those make great kindling. Had some that the wood looked like mahogeny for some reason. Have stacks of wood now to burn. Winter will be here pretty soon unforunatly.
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It was really nice out today. I walked around the woodlot and found a few trees that are big enough for a tap again.
I also found a little grove of brown ash. They are really neat looking trees which the indians use to make baskets.
It's nice to be putting some energy into something other than defense.
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What an Awsome day!!
I got all my mainline hung and hooked up all 1400' of it. About 600' of it is a vac line to get to my lower milk releaser. Now to run the 5/16" blue stuff.
It is getting tougher to work outside during the week with it getting dark around 5:30 and working overtime on Sat it gives me just Sun to do the outside work.
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Just got back from a week at the hunt camp. We had a good week with 6 deer in total, including a 10-pointer for our 83 year old senior member (a 154 yard shot!) and a big 8 pointer for a 25 year old rookie who is now hooked on hunting! Another rookie got his first deer as well. I dropped a big doe (115 lbs dressed) and a coyote.
We managed to get the concrete poured for the knee wall in the new building. My forms weren't as solid as I'd hoped and had to do some emergency bracing as we poured. It's just a shack over a tank in the woods so it's no big deal that it's not perfect - I'll learn for next time!
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I rented a mini excacavator to set my 1500 bulk tank and 500 I poured sono tubes to set them on. Tired of having the tanks settle and now with a 1500 I need to make sure it doesn't go anywhere
Keith
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help one of my buddies on his sugar house, i put a coupala on the thing for him while he put plywood on the sides of the walls to seal it up, its looking pretty good, he cant wait, we also cut up his little brothers spike that he shot the day before, good youth weekend deer, tasted great. all in all a fun weekend i didnt get much done at all, shot 2 gray squirrels, pulled logs for an hour before i was called to go help with the deer, real productive!
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man it was nice out today.
I finished up the bricks today perfect temps to use refractory cement. cleaned everything up, hooked up all the lines firin' her up tomorrow just after lunch start her out slow then add a little more heat to 500F stack temp for about and hour then shut her down and let it cool down clean out the pans check for cracks if there are any seal them up and let it sit for a few days and fire it up agin and burn it hard!!!
Shotgun season starts Wednesday but I doubt if I will get out before saturday. if its nice I'll take the kids out and set up the blind. my daughter has the swine flu. simptoms aren't too bad. she's doing it OK though.
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Sounds like fun. Good luck with the inaugural boil.
The swine flu is already here in Maine too.
