Another think I have yet to work out is that the stove outlet is sized for 8" pipe

But if you look, the double chimney pipe is sized for 6" pipe!

I checked and the original pipe which I found in the Sarge created debris pile was indeed 6", however no 8" to 6" transition could be found!

Gotta figure that one out

A fastened that to the wall joists with 390 3" screws and 7808 welding rod, wood fiber variety

One of the above statements is false...

I got a fit lookin' like this. So I have to bridge that final gap to make my life happier

Here is a better way of settin' it up for success!

It's about 23" from the back wall and 14" from the side wall. Because of it's close proximity to the side, I plan to wrap the area with another layer of ventilated metal, roofing metal, that is that will provide an inch of air gap to further mitigate heat propagation to the spot where it concentrates and causes a Car-Rep 3 report to be generated

Here, I'm punching a hole in the wall, cause I wanted to and, hey, I'm payin for all this!

Parting from the deconstruction of my stuff and my available funds, back to buildin'

Next up, is the installation of the wood burner

Now, no series of posts I ever make would be complete without a proper Car-Rep (Carnage Report)

Since I seem to be refining the activity of unknowingly, or methodically destroying valuable things I own, I feel it is necessary to categorize the levels of damage.

So, forthwith we shall know the damage as:

Car-Rep 1: Damaged but repairable on scene withing a reasonable length of time

Car-Rep 2: Damaged but requires a run for parts, or outside help

Car-Rep 3: Equipment destroyed and non repairable (Like setting my tractor on fire pushing brush into a raging bonfire)

OK, so we're clear on all that, right?

Movin along: the "B" tractor (For baby) had some problems. as you can see

Then it was on to mindless hours of tractor ridin'

I used all but two of the cans in the fit out of the bottom floor. I'm saving those for new headlights for Square-D ;-))

The cans are a pretty good buy at around $10 each.

The feed wires which have been stripped, simply push into the speed connectors which can also be used as a porch swing tie off in emergencies

(Well, maybe not)

He is a part of my security system. Whenever a threat or sound manifests, he runs away and hides, indicating to me, something is amiss!

The theme was electrical stuff. Knowing I was moving the heavy wood stove into it's semi-permanent spot, I finished out the outlets and lights in its vicinity first

In the words of my personal hero, Forrest Gump, "For no particular reason" I just decided to begin Part-3 of the hide site build up.

Those of you just coming here, there's parts one and two to muddle through before any of this will make any sense, so get tuit and git that done...And yes, I like to misspell things, just cause I kan! (And I'm a Kintuckian!)

So we left off somewhere, where I was doing something, and we'll launch off this thread from that nebulous point.

We can start where I did a few days ago when my hearing was still intact, my lungs was clear of dust, and my fingers hadn't been banged up by my hammer.

I chose the contractor pack of can lights, three of them to cover voids in the overhead floor joists which I thought needed something to create a fire hazard and some visual interest!

Just getting back in from the farm...Sorry for your (and everyone's) loss, Shawn.

Roscoe will be missed! But for every loss we Christians experience, Heaven gains one!

Roscoe is the winner after all!

2WD?

Thought you'd have her "transfer case savvy." ;)

Yep...

I posted this before, but in view of what's happening to our nation, I thought it worthy of another go around...



 [Steve Kroft (born August 22, 1945) is an American journalist and a longtime correspondent for "60 Minutes".  His investigative reporting has garnered him much acclaim, including three Peabody Awards and nine Emmy awards, one of which was an Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.  You can understand what is happening to our America after reading this.
> May God have mercy upon our nation.]
> ************************
> One Evil Human
> FROM STEVE KROFT ("60 Minutes")
> This article is written by Steve Kroft from "60 Minutes".
> It begins to piece together the rise of Obama and his behavior in leading the nation along with many members of Congress (in particular the Democrats, such as the election of Pelosi as the minority leader in Congress).
> If you have wondered where Obama came from and just how he quickly moved from obscurity to President, or why the media is "selective" in what we are told, here is the man who most probably put him there and is responsible.
> He controls President Obama's every move.  Think this is absurd?
> Invest a few minutes and read this.  You won't regret it.
>
> Who is Obama?
> Obama is a puppet and here is the explanation of the man or demon that pulls his strings.  It’s not by chance that Obama can manipulate the world.
> After reading this and Obama's reluctance to accept help on the oil spill you wonder if the spill is part of the plan to destroy the US?
> "In history, nothing happens by accident.  If it happened, you can bet someone planned it." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
> Who Is George Soros?
> >
> He brought the market down in 2 days.
> Here is what CBS' Mr. Steve Kroft's research has turned up.
> It's a bit of a read, and it took 4 months to put it together.
> "The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States of America."  ~ George Soros"
> George Soros is an evil man.
> He's anti-God, anti-family, anti-American, and anti-good."
> He killed and robbed his own Jewish people.  What we have in Soros, is a multi-billionaire atheist, with skewed moral values, and a sociopath's lack of conscience.  He considers himself to be an elitist world class philosopher, despises the American way, and just loves to do social engineering and change cultures.
> Garry Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary.  Soros' father, Tivadar, was a fervent practitioner of the Esperanto language invented in 1887, and designed to be the first global language, free of any national identity.  The Schwartz's, who were non-practicing Jews, changed the family name to Soros, in order to facilitate assimilation into the Gentile population, as the Nazis spread into Hungary during the 1930s.
> When Hitler's henchman, Adolf Eichmann arrived in Hungary, to oversee the murder of that country's Jews, George Soros ended up with a man whose job was confiscating property from the Jewish population.  Soros went with him on his rounds .
> Soros has repeatedly called 1944 "the best year of his life."
> 70% of Mr. Soros's fellow Jews in Hungary, nearly a half-million human beings, were annihilated in that year , yet he gives no sign that this put any damper on his elation, either at the time or indeed in retrospect".
> During an interview with "Sixty Minute's" Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his "best year."
> KROFT:  My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
> SOROS:  Yes.  Yes.
> KROFT:  Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from your fellow Jews, friends and neighbors.
> SOROS:  Yes.  That's right.  Yes.
> KROFT:  I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many, years.  Was it difficult?
> SOROS:  No, not at all.  Not at all, I rather enjoyed it.
> KROFT:  No feelings of guilt?
> SOROS:  No, only feelings of absolute power.
> In his article, Muravchik describes how Soros has admitted to having carried some rather "potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble."  Be that as it may.  After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he fell under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper, one of his professors.  Popper was a mentor to Soros until Popper's death in 1994.  Two of Popper's most influential teachings concerned "the open society," and Fallibilism.
> Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken.  (Then again, I could be wrong about that.)  The "open society" basically refers to a "test and evaluate" approach to social engineering.  Regarding "open society" Roy Childs writes, "Since the Second World War, most of the Western democracies have followed Popper's advice about piecemeal social engineering and democratic social reform, and it has gotten them into a grand mess."
> In 1956 Soros moved to New York City, where he worked on Wall Street, and started amassing his fortune.  He specialized in hedge funds and currency speculation.  Soros is absolutely ruthless, amoral, and clever in his business dealings, and quickly made his fortune.  By the 1980s he was well on his way to becoming the global powerhouse that he is today.
> In an article Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote for "The American Thinker" she says, "Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England.  He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically, almost overnight."
> In 1994 Soros crowed in "The New Republic," that "the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire."  The Russia-gate scandal in 1999, which almost collapsed the Russian economy, was labeled by Rep. Jim Leach, then head of the House Banking Committee, to be "one of the greatest social robberies in human history.  "The "Soros Empire" indeed.
> In 1997 Soros almost destroyed the economies of Thailand and Malaysia.  At the time, Malaysia's Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohammad, called Soros "a villain, and a moron."  Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, "We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula.  He sucks the blood from the people."
> The website Greek National Pride reports, "Soros was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia and caused trouble in Georgia, Ukraine and Myanmar [Burma].  Calling himself a philanthropist, Soros' role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain.  He is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality."
> France has upheld an earlier conviction against Soros, for felony insider trading.  Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars.  Recently, his native Hungary fined Soros 2.2 million dollars for "illegal market manipulation."  Elizabeth Crum writes that the Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized.  Soros deliberately driving down the share price of its largest bank put Hungary's economy into a wicked tailspin, one from which it is still trying to recover.
> My point here is that Soros is a planetary parasite.  His grasp, greed, and gluttony have a global reach.  But what about America?  Soros told Australia's national newspaper "The Australian."  "America, as the center of the globalized financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world.  This is now over.  "The game is out," he said, adding that the time has come for "a very serious adjustment" in American's consumption habits.  He implied that he was the one with the power to bring this about."
> Soros:  "World financial crisis was "stimulating" and "in a way, the culmination of my life's work."
> Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil, in order to give them a leg-up in expanding their offshore oil fields.  Obama's largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer, George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Petrobras).
> Tait Trussel writes, "The Petrobras loan may be a windfall for Soros and Brazil, but it is a bad deal for the U.S.  The American Petroleum Institute estimates that oil exploration in the U S could create 160,000 new, well-paying jobs, as well as $1.7 trillion in revenues to federal, state, and local governments, all while fostering greater energy security and independence."
> A blog you might want to keep an eye on is SorosWatch.com.
> Their mission:  "This blog is dedicated to all who have suffered due to the ruthless financial pursuits of George Soros.
> Your stories are many and varied, but the theme is the same:  the destructive power of greed without conscience.
> We pledge to tirelessly watch Soros wherever he goes and to print the truth in the hope that he will one day be made to stop preying upon the world's poor, that justice will be served."
> Back to America.
> Soros has been actively working to destroy America from the inside out for some years now.
> People have been warning us.
> Two years ago, news sources reported that "Soros [is] an extremist who wants open borders, a one-world foreign policy, legalized drugs, euthanasia, and on and on.  This is off-the-chart dangerous.  In 1997 Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote, "Soros uses his philanthropy to change or more accurately deconstruct the moral values and attitudes of the Western world, and particularly of the American people".
> His "open society" is not about freedom; it is about license.
> His vision rejects the notion of ordered liberty, in favor of a PROGRESSIVE ideology of rights and entitlements.
> Perhaps the most important of these "whistle blowers" are David Horowitz and Richard Poe.
> Their book, "The Shadow Party", outlines in detail how Soros hijacked the Democratic Party, and now owns it lock, stock, and barrel.
> Soros has been packing the Democratic Party with radicals, and ousting moderate Democrats for years.
> The Shadow Party became the Shadow Government, which recently became the Obama Administration.
> Discover The Networks.org (another good source) writes, "By his [Soros'] own admission, he helped engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, Georgia, and Yugoslavia.  When Soros targets a country for "regime change," he begins by creating a shadow government, a fully formed government-in-exile, ready to assume power when the opportunity arises.
> The Shadow Party he has built in America greatly resembles those he has created in other countries prior to instigating a coup."
> November 2008 edition of the German magazine, "Der Spiegel," in which Soros gives his opinion on what the next POTUS (President of the U. S.) should do after taking office.  "I think we need a large stimulus package."  Soros thought that around 600 billion would be about right.  Soros also said that "I think Obama presents us a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence.  The U.S. needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights."
> Although Soros doesn't (yet) own the Republican Party, like he does the Democrats, make no mistake, his tentacles are spread throughout the Republican Party as well.
> Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100 million dollars.
> According to an article by "The Baltimore Chronicle's" Alice Cherbonnier, the Carlyle Group is run by "a veritable who's who of former Republican leaders," from CIA man, Frank Carlucci, to CIA head and ex-President George Bush, Sr.
> In late 2006, Soros bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old stomping grounds.
> When the Democrats and Republicans held their conventions in 2000, Soros held Shadow Party conventions in the same cities, at the same time.  In 2008, Soros donated $5,000,000,000 (that’s Five Billion) to the Democratic National Committee, DNC, to insure Obama's win and wins for many other Alinsky trained Radical Rules Anti-American Socialist.  George has been contributing a billion plus to the DNC since Clinton came on the scene.
> Soros has dirtied both sides of the aisle, trust me.
> And if that weren't bad enough, he has long held connections with the CIA.
> And I mustn't forget to mention Soros' involvement with the MSM (Main Stream Media), the entertainment industry (e.g. he owns 2.6 million shares of Time Warner), and the various political advertising organizations he funnels millions to.  In short, George Soros controls or influences most of the MSM.
> Little wonder they ignore the TEA PARTY, Soros' NEMESIS.
> As Matthew Vadum writes, "The liberal billionaire-turned-philanthrop ist has been buying up media properties for years in order to drive home his message to the American public that they are too materialistic, too wasteful, too selfish, and too stupid to decide for themselves how to run their own lives."
> Richard Poe writes, "Soros' private philanthropy, totaling nearly $5 billion, continues undermining America's traditional Western values.
> His giving has provided funding of abortion rights, atheism, drug legalization, sex education, euthanasia, feminism, gun control, globalization, mass immigration, gay marriage and other radical experiments in social engineering."
> Some of the many NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) that Soros funds with his billions are:  MoveOn.org, the Apollo Alliance, Media Matters for America, the Tides Foundation, the ACLU, ACORN, PDIA (Project on Death In America), La Raza, and many more.  For a more complete list, with brief descriptions of the NGOs, go to DiscoverTheNetworks.org.    &nbsbsp;
> Poe continues, "Thh his global web of Open Society Institutes and Open Society Foundations, Soros has spent 25 years recruiting, training, indoctrinating and installing a network of loyal operatives in 50 countries, placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government, finance and academia."
> Without Soros' money, would the Saul Alinsky's Chicago machine still be rolling?  Would SEIU, ACORN, and La Raza still be pursuing their nefarious activities?
> Would big money and lobbyists still be corrupting government?
> Would our college campuses still be retirement homes for 1960s radicals?
> America stands at the brink of an abyss, and that fact is directly attributable to Soros.  Soros has vigorously, cleverly, and insidiously planned the ruination of America and his puppet, Barack Obama is leading the way.
> The words of Patrick Henry are apropos:  "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God!  I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"  -----
> Above information researched by CBS Steve Kroft
> "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson

Just watched a war documentary film,

Into the Hornet's Nest

Two embedded reporters, a father and a son

Man, what a trip down memory lane!

One mission with the Army in the Kunar Provence. I recognized the roads...Somewhere near FOB Cobra I'm thinking. Flew missions in and around there a time or two

Second mission with the Marines in the Helmand valley. Flew down there so many times, the pepes there probably think I'm the mayor!

Before the Marines showed there were only the Brits and one Special Forces "A" team which we supported many times

Last part was with the 101st north of J-Bad (Jalabad) in the hills. Flew missions up in there as well. He called that place the hornet's nest.

I can tell you all, he aptly named it. Was up there snaking around one day and caught some guys on a ridge line hiding under the trees. They wouldn't fire at me, so I legally couldn't shoot back. Had two Dillions and 9,000 rounds. We had taken a beating there the week before and we were out for blood, but I guess the T-ban had had enough.

Amazing how a film can bring back memories like that

Just airing here, no real discussion, just sharing...

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Quote from: JR on September 11, 2016, 06:39:38 PM

I know some places state how many outlets you can have. I have heard 12 per circuit.

You are not supposed to go over 80% of the rated breaker (like you would max them all out at the same time, but this is Don)

I always ran 8-10 outlets to make sure I had room for lighting too! ;D

I'll have to cut back with the 50 amp(er) Texas Red Neck needs!

I'm trained to work and fight in the dark, so I should be good to go! ;-))

Fields continue to get improved, as tree by tree, I push back 35 years of neglect

I put in a layer of type "N" cement a few daze ago.

And I found this nifty log holder thing-ah-ma-bob

So good news

The woman put the camera under the back seat yestertag

No rice needed

It works!

Here's that nasty storm that dropped a black locust onto my road, which I just drove over on my rapid exit out of the danger zone!

Here's the mileage and hours

Still pretty new...

How do you go threw airbags like that, is something rubbing?

Yep

Sticks and rocks I drive over!

The big filter and the oil has been around for some 30,000 miles!

Slapped a new set of filters on the Air Dog...