Clint, I would suggest getting an electric water heater bud... cheaper than burning oil and an easier budget to handle on your monthly electric bill... I've got a propane jobber myself... when it shi!ts the bed I'm thinking of converting to electric. One less chore to have keep on and budget for... also on the morning of -27 a few days ago my regulator must've froze up as a had very little volume at my stove and water tank... no hot water on a -27 morning sucks for sure

Yup, and most hardware stores even have the most common elements... I'm looking to do a wood burning hot water boiler in the near future with a hot water coil. In the winter I'll have an isolated feed from the wood burning domestic coil run to my water heater so my water tank fills with hot water from the coil instead of the cold water feed... I'd tie in to the cold feed on my water tank below a cold water isolation that would be closed in heating months... if I wanted to get real fancy I'd do it as a circulated return loop with a little taco 006 bronzed pump and I'd be guaranteed to not ever have the water heater kick on... anything to save my nickles and dimes from going in to the pockets of corporate America is ideal from me

PA- you did the dance, now you pay the piper.  Look at it this way, we are one day closer to Spring.  Days are getting a little longer and when Obama comes out of the White House and sees his shadow we'll have six more weeks of winter.

Windy as all heck out tonight. Sure hope it calms down by morning but gotta feeling its going to be rough out there on the ice tomorrow .
My 9 lives finally ran out . The wind got the best of me . Wife called and said the pipes that thawed out nicely yesterday broke tonight. Oh well , gotta love winter I will worry about them come spring :)

To quote myself  "alot less"  ,as far as the oil usage,  may have been a strong term.    I figure I use 1/4 tank a year to heat the DMH or roughly 5.5 gallons a month.   I did a little math a few years back  when oil was $4.50 a gallon and the boiler still was cheaper to run than an electric HWH. At that time  IIRC the cost of fuel would have to be around $ 4.80 a gallon for the break even.  I have an indirect unit and a cold start boiler. Efficient and super fast recovery.  With the 2 of us boiler runs at most 2x a day in the summer.   Cost per BTU, oil is cheaper.    A tankless coil on the other hand is super inefficient.    You always need to keep the boiler hot to get your water.  Electric is certainly easier to work on, but considering I need the boiler to work anyway the only thing that can really go bad with the DHW part  is the tank t stat  and the one valve.   I certainly would think about a propane HWH  if the coil in my tank went bad as they cost about $400, but the tank has a lifetime warranty. 

Now I see the light Rich.......enjoy the ice and you should have no fear of falling through!

Wife saw a pack of 4 or 5 in the field above the house.   Letting the neighbor and his son hunt them ANYTIME they want.   

It's a balmy 17 degree here at 10:30 and I'm about to blow the 2-3 inches off the drive AGAIN!

Looks like it is sitting right on top of you bro.    We got about 6 inches or so here, but it's in not snowing now.    I am all cleaned up for the night, drive and paths done.   They did up the totals from  possible 12 inches to up to 18 inches by 7am tomorrow.     

It's sitting up there because we are still clear here.   Sorry man, you can keep it.  I do not want to get up at 5 to clean out.   

yeah tuna we got about 3 also... Feet not inches... Lol

another fresh 16 inches or so on top of where I plowed last night. Close to 3 foot In 24 hours. About same amount of snow that Watertown got a few weeks ago during that " state of emergency " but that was throughout 3 days

Clint it looks like it just missEd you bud...stopped thru Dunkin Donuts of parish and they were shocked at the amount of snow that was on my truck ...looks like you got lucky And just got a few inches

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yeah tuna we got about 3 also... Feet not inches... Lol

another fresh 16 inches or so on top of where I plowed last night. Close to 3 foot In 24 hours. About same amount of snow that Watertown got a few weeks ago during that " state of emergency " but that was throughout 3 days

Clint it looks like it just missEd you bud...stopped thru Dunkin Donuts of parish and they were shocked at the amount of snow that was on my truck ...looks like you got lucky And just got a few inches

Now that sounds like a good time,we get something like that once in 20 years.....maybe.When it happens it's total shut down for awhile.
What are you plowing with Andy,your front end loader?

Schizam-- sometimes everything gets in the way.  A short fishing  year up in SR county while moving and now  the grandkids lost  their Feb vacation.
We always come up on their week off  - Wife and G kids  x country ski in Osceola while I fish.
Not now--too many snow days from School --to be made up for by loosing their Vacation.
 
 

Now that sounds like a good time,we get something like that once in 20 years.....maybe.When it happens everything get shut down
What are you plowing with Andy,your front end loader?




 
Seems like a weekly thing up here. 
  Plowing with a loader is tough, I always tend to dig in or leave too much,  plus the open cab thing SUCKS.   I have a nice 7 foot blower for the back of my tractor, but only use it as an emergency back up and weight for when I push back the banks

must be brutal dragging an ice sled through that... 
Jack, I hate snow.. Too much work, even for a fish..lol