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    Re: Right Tools for the Job

    Nice Pics

    I just couldn't get that close!!

    It was running the whole time I was there. I learned that if you hear a wrrrrrrr thunk when they are done dropping a log.... LOOKOUT! That thing...
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    Re: Right Tools for the Job

    Pretty close to this one. It's 35 tons.

    I have some REAL big oaks. They said that they COULD cut them with the harvester, but it would take two cuts. They are going to be safer and cut them...
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    Re: Right Tools for the Job

    more stuff
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    Right Tools for the Job

    I'm having some timber cut off of a lot that I just bought. I plan to build a house there in a year or two. Driveway will be about 2200 feet long. Keep your fingers crossed that some of the...
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    Re: Pro\'s and con\'s of a garage under the house

    Plans for us:

    Have a daylight basement. Drive in for garage on back side of house. Front side ground level will be my wife's photography studio.

    All will be heated, no concerns there. No...
  6. Thread: Furnace Costs

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    Re: Furnace Costs

    Thanks for the site.

    BUT OUCH on the price difference. Assuming 3000 dollars for the furnace.. It's a big premium for the TARM. Now granted.. The TARM is two boilers in one box. But looking...
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    Re: Furnace Costs

    Sorry if I confused my terms. I have a forced hot air furnace now. Could not hate it more. Noisy, dusty, uneven heat.

    The options are thus. Oil fired boiler, or Tarm combination Oil/wood...
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    Re: Furnace Costs

    Going to be about 2400sf of radiant heat (including garage)
    and a total home sf of around 3000 i guess.

    Haven't really gotten into house plans. Just want a ballpark "normal" home furnace cost. ...
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    Re: Why can\'t I buy a 60/80 pressure tank

    Ok.. so it sounds like a resonable size tank would keep a good volume of water (assuming my drilled well comes in with a good amount of GPM)

    But it seems like 4 hundred bucks would be well spent...
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    Re: Furnace Costs

    Yes, I really do believe I could consider the lot to completely sustain my needs forever. At the moment it is 100% wooded

    My uncle is a forrester, and tree buyer. AFTER I sell off a whole lot of...
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    Re: Why can\'t I buy a 60/80 pressure tank

    Which would work better?

    A super large pressure tank (or two in series)

    or one of those harbor freight "booster pumps"

    I really would like to have BIG water pressure in the new house. We...
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    Re: Security for a weekend cabin?

    Be happy with just vandalism.

    Our cabin got broken into and they KILLED SOMEONE and left him in there.

    Luckily, we weren't the ones to find the poor sod. But it was quite a shock. They had...
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    Furnace Costs

    I am new to the forum.. but have been hanging out over on TBN for a while. Looks like this site has a lot of great people and good advice.

    The wife and I are getting ready to close on 70ac of...
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