[TheForge] Shop Cranes was (Yes you do need power)

[Bruce Freeman]

If that's an unventilated heater, I suggest you get
one or more CO detectors for your house.
Bruce
NJ
--- Jerry Smith <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
wrote:

> Frosty,
> 
> 2 Years ago I could have gotten a Bobcat, 1 year out
> of the rebuild shop for 5K, now I can't find
> anything
> like that.
> 
> I have a gas radiant heater in the basement, it
> requires no blower to heat the house, sort of like a
> gravity furnace from the old days. It uses less gas
> than the furnace does and keep the house toasty, it
> just take a 3 hours to warm the house up..
> 
> My shop is a lot of new and old stuff, I have a Bed
> Knife Cutter, nearly a milling machine in quality,
> but
> a great grinder. I do have a knee mill, it is a Jet
> with DROs, it was cheaper than than buying a
> Bridgeport and having it rebuilt or finding a Kent
> that was in good shape or one of the Italian ones.
> 
> I have a couple of things to do yet tonight,
> 
> Take care and thanks,
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:
> 
> > One of the "mistakes" (sort of) I made when we
> > started 
> > building this place was not buying a backhoe. 10
> > years 
> > ago there was a glut on the used market and I
> > could've 
> > picked up a mid hr. Case 580 or Cat 416 for around
> 
> > $12-14K and a low hr one for under $20K. I didn't 
> > because I wanted to put the money into the house
> and
> > 
> > shop instead. I can't say I've spent that much in 
> > rentals but I wouldn't be surprised if I have.
> > <sigh>
> > 
> >  If I had picked one up I could've made it pay
> it's
> > way 
> > in side work easily not to mention saving the
> rental
> > 
> > money. I'd also have a raft of attachments made
> for
> > the 
> > thing: a thumb, (no brainer) forks, log grapple,
> > roto 
> > tiller, barn cleaning rakes and bucket, etc. etc.
> > 
> > There's no glut of hoes now and I'll be happy to
> > find a 
> > halfway decent forklift I can afford. I'd settle
> for
> > a 
> > Bobcat, skidsteer, etc. but I'm not all that fond
> of
> > 
> > them. Too many years getting beat on by heavy
> > equipment 
> > to want to ride one of the bucking buggies.
> Besides,
> > 
> > one in decent condition isn't that much more than
> a 
> > halfway decent backhoe.
> > 
> > Heck, I'd be thrilled with a pickup truck that
> > wasn't 
> > 20 years old!
> > 
> > Our auxillary power is my Lincoln Ranger 9
> portable,
> > 
> > 9kw is plenty to run the house and our grid power
> is
> > 
> > pretty reliable anymore. The wood stove is more 
> > important in a power failure even though the
> Viking,
> > 
> > propane range top will put out more BTUs than the
> > oil 
> > fired boiler. <grin> Neither Deb nor I want to
> > breath 
> > the CO from even a well adjusted range top longer
> > than 
> > necessary.
> > 
> > What I've been kicking around lately is designs
> for
> > the 
> > shop heater. I'm thinking of making it a wood 
> > gassification unit with coils to heat the infloor 
> > radiant and a largish aimable stack robber with a 
> > blower for warm air delivery. It'd be about double
> > the 
> > work of a plain steel fire box with a stack but
> it'd
> > 
> > not only burn cleaner it'd double as a charcoal
> > retort 
> > as well.
> > 
> > It might actually get up to almost freezing today!
> 
> > WooHoo! It's been a long cold one hereabouts. Kind
> > of 
> > puts your mind to heating you know. <grin>
> > 
> > Frosty
> > -------------------------------
> > If it ain't forged
> > it ain't real.
> > Wrought iron is.
> > The FrostWorks
> > 
> > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> > 
> > http://www.artmetalradio.com/
> > 
> > 
> > From: "Jerry Smith" 
> > <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
> > 
> > 
> > > Frosty,
> > >
> > > I was think of a low mass forklift or a "Bobcat"
> > with
> > > a back hoe, as well as other accessories. Right
> > now I
> > > am looking for a tractor of any sort to help
> work
> > my
> > > land. All the collectors have been buying up the
> > old
> > > medium size ones, which is what I need.
> > >
> > > So I may get a John Deer D and rebuild it, take
> a
> > > piece of rail road rail and make a plow out of
> it.
> > 
> > > The
> > > get some old lawn mowers and make a drag gang
> out
> > of
> > > them.
> > >
> > > Or the ulimate thing: hire a guy with one of
> those
> > > great big giant tractors, when he or she is
> done,
> > the
> > > tractor goes home. So I don't have to maintain
> it.
> > >
> > > Then my other thing around my place, we don't
> have
> > > power outages very often, and I can only
> remember
> > > maybe one in the last couple of years. Many
> people
> > 
> > > get
> > > one of those little generators, I have a 15 Kw
> > > multifuel, start iup peak of 22.5 Kw, auto idle,
> > it
> > > has wheels, type of generator. This will run my 
> > > house,
> > > I know it will run my TIG welder and some other
> > shop
> > > equipment maybe at the same time.
> > >
> > > Jerry
> > >
> > >
> > 
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