[TheForge] Mass Resignations?

[J. Petrila]

I started building a school 5.5 years ago..  it's a 40x60x22ft center ridge
and installed a multi fuel furnace (wood, coal (soft/hard) fuel oil, waste
oil) nearly anything you can throw in it.

I also installed a propane fired Radiant heater nearly 3years ago but it is
still not plumbed for propane.

The really nice thing about the radiant heaters is it heats the objects
which then heats the air vs the Furnace but the reasonable costs of burning
used oil or what ever I find around the property keeps heating the place
cheap..

The first few years I burnt about 1200 gallons of used oil and after the
investment in a sock filter and centrifuge I can process nearly any oil
that comes in and there is no residue as all of it is able to be burned or
in the case of water in the oil, i can evaporate it in the burn chamber so
there is not left over anything.

I installed an air calculator this past summer that is thermostatically
controlled and my heating cost/gallons has been cut by about a 1/3rd.

We are in February and have been heating the shop since Sept I'm about
300gallons into the season.

The infrared radiant heater output or cost wise is very reasonable  and
once the school is functional I'll have propane forges so the heater will
be hooked up then.
JLP Services Inc
6 Kenwood Dr
Rutland, MA 01543-1215

1 (508) 667-5498


On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM Ries Niemi <ries at riesniemi.com> wrote:

> I am seriously considering installing a propane radiant heating system in
> the shop, even though as of Jan 1 I am officially “retired”, which means no
> more biz license, legal employees, and corporate tax returns.
> But my shop has been wood heat for 25 years, and I find chopping firewood
> less and less exciting.
>
>
> Ries
>
>
> > On Feb 2, 2025, at 5:27 AM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> As the FORMER administrator, I received notice of 17 members all
> >> quitting TheForge at the same time.  What's up with that???
> >
> > The only thought that comes immediately to mind is that, for unknown
> > reasons, the 17 left at various intervals but the listserv reported
> > them to you all at once in a collected bunch/summary.
> >
> > The information to determine that it happened that way might have been
> > omitted from the notice you received or have been formulated in a way
> > that let you overlook the spread of leaving dates/times.
> >
> > If neither of those is the case and they're clearly time stamped at
> > about the same time, I can't even guess.
> >
> > I suppose you could send email to one or several of the unsubscribing
> > addresses and ask.  As you're our long-time and trusted List Mom, I
> > doubt anyone would take offense.
> >
> > No  blacksmithing news from me, sorry to say.  I've gotten too old to
> > go out and work in an unheated shop when it's single digits (F)
> > outside.  I even slack off on splitting firewood when it's that cold.
> > A friend who used to live in Timmins, Ontario accuses me of wimping
> > out when it isn't colder that 40 below.  He's right.  :-)  But then,
> > *he* lives *here* now where it never gets any where near that cold.
> >
> > --
> > Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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> > mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
> > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
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