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Started by Wood Shed, December 07, 2018, 10:06:23 AM

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trapper

Home built splitter oil tank is higher than pump.  Little warmer yesterday 35f I put a magnetic heater on hydraulic tank next to where oil leaves tank to go to pump.  Still needed either to start engine but it started.  With the hydraulic oil heated a bit engine pulled much easier. Reason in my mind for where I put heater is if the oil by the tank outlet was warm enough to get engine started the rest would warm up when I was splitting.
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Al_Smith

What are you running for oil,SAE 50WT ?At 35 degrees F if that engine was in tune and the oil was not stiff as mud it should start  right up .I have 8-9 gallons of Dextron in my splitter which has nothing to do with dry firewood . ;)

Magicman

Also nothing to do with burning dry wood, but I burned my DanG hand this morning on the insert door.  DanG!!!  :-X
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mike_belben

Green wood woulda worked just fine for that MM.
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doctorb

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gspren - your post categorizes my feelings exactly.  I am still heating full time with my OWB, and will use it as long as we still are friendly toward one another.  But I would not purchase another at age 67.  I hope to get another one or two years out of both my body and the OWB.  Further, I hope to scrap the OWB long before I discard the former.
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Al_Smith

Come on Doc I'll soon be 71 and I'm still kicking but I'm not feeding an outside burner with a big appetite .

trapper

Still feeding my  classic at 75 and hope to for a few more
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Magicman

Quote from: doctorb on December 15, 2018, 12:25:18 PMBut I would not purchase another at age 67.
I didn't quit doing anything at age 67.  Matter of fact, still haven't.  ;D
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thecfarm

I might want another OWB,but don't know if I could afford to buy another one. I bought mine just before the price of everything went up and 25% or more. That was 2007.
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gspren

Quote from: thecfarm on December 16, 2018, 12:51:14 PM
I might want another OWB,but don't know if I could afford to buy another one. I bought mine just before the price of everything went up and 25% or more. That was 2007.
That was sort of the point in why I wouldn't buy a "new" one now but 9 years ago it made sense. Heating oil was 30% higher and the stove was 30% lower so a 3-5 year payback was easy if you didn't buy the wood which I didn't. Now I can't see a payback much less than 8-10 years.
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doctorb

It's an expense/duration to pay-for-itself issue as well as a back issue with me.  I don't know how long I'll be in our current house, which is way too big now that the kids are moved out.  I expect w'll be here for another 3-5 years, because we love it, but that's not enough time to pay back the cost of a new OWB.  I certainly will use my 2300 as long as she lasts.

By the time the heating season is over here (April), my back is ready for a vacation.  Yet I enjoy the prep of the wood throughout the year, and I definitely don't mind heading outside to feed the beast.  So I'm not as creaky or frail as it may have sounded in my earlier post.  I just do less buckin' and splittin' than I used to do.
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Al_Smith

To tell the truth I think most of us who are the first part of the baby boomer generation  aren't quite as active as we once were .I know I'm not .

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