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Post by jamesp on Aug 31, 2013 9:45:35 GMT -5
I love building barns too Micheal-after the footings/foundation is done. LOL
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Post by jamesp on Aug 31, 2013 9:54:41 GMT -5
Scott- those trays hold 15 small nursery pots. Pots that are 4 inches dis and 2.75 inches tall. I start plants in them. You can see the pots nested in front of the 2 stacks.
I start water lilies in those 4 inch pots with a special bloom blend and let them grow a year to smash blooming nutrients into the tuber and then pot bind them with those
strong little pots. The next year i set them free in 8 inch pots and they go wild like a kid locked up in a cage. I have been kicking butt w/that system for a good many
years. Water lilies w/blooms is an easy sell. Got more blooms in 8 inch pot than competitors with 16 inch pots. 20 years-paid my dues and learned t+error. Worth more
in pleasure kick competitors butt.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2013 10:40:22 GMT -5
so, ya gotta grow them two years before sale. That being the case you MUST get really efficient with your labor or it wont be worth it. Great job kickin' @ss! woot!
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Post by jamesp on Aug 31, 2013 11:36:52 GMT -5
I replied before you sent. I can read your mind.
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 31, 2013 16:51:07 GMT -5
I love building barns too Micheal-after the footings/foundation is done. LOL Well being in the "Boonies" in North Dakota,we did it all,if it was small enough,we did the cement work and pour too......Mostly setting up forms(That sucked),wire it with rebar,Blah,blah,blah...I sure as hell don't miss that part of construction-LOL...Did a pour in a blizzard once,had the force heaters going full blast and tarps ready to cover the wet cement...Finished about midnight(on a shop),ended up a 12 hour pour because of the freakin' weather! LOL As said,once you start,you can't quit pouring! Yuppers even dug our post holes with a hand held post digger (Wipping brow)..LOL If winter it was with spud bar than hand held post digger...Old school the whole way... But I wouldn't have traded it for the world,built sweat,blood and honesty!!! Well maybe I'll have to swip my wifes roaster oven than...LMAO Want to cook more rocks myself...Thumbs up
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Post by jamesp on Aug 31, 2013 17:12:40 GMT -5
Name that toaster Sally and sneak her out the alley.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2013 21:24:07 GMT -5
Jim, I am considering a propane fired oven for rolling a bread rack into. I need to fire my homemade agates. How would you insulate the walls? What's in there?
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Post by jamesp on Sept 2, 2013 21:32:23 GMT -5
Home made agates-absolutely. Same exact insulation used in a water heater -glass wool. And fluffed. Not packed in. Probably Owens Corning
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Post by jamesp on Sept 8, 2013 12:29:20 GMT -5
Love these high dollar 'Trend' brand industrial thermometers. He sells them for $20 at the junkyard if i can get em before they get gone. Probably $200 new. Got em all around including favorite deer stand. Welded a 3/4 to 1/2 NPT reducer bushing into the peep hole and screwed the thermometer right in. Sorry peep hole. The oven will swing the needle almost to the 50F mark,probably 630F est Thermostat is wacked and only on/off's above 325F. No matter, hard to shock-crack rocks in sand below 350-400F. Holds two 3 gal galv. buckets easily. Charter load cooking as i type.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2013 13:00:24 GMT -5
"First Bake"!!
can't wait to see the results!
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Post by bhiatt on Sept 8, 2013 13:02:40 GMT -5
Name that toaster Sally and sneak her out the alley. Lowell George. One of the best there ever was.
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Post by jamesp on Sept 8, 2013 13:38:56 GMT -5
Little Feat did no wrong
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Post by jamesp on Sept 8, 2013 13:45:45 GMT -5
Dialin in the thermostat(one of those w/no graduations) 2 spots past the rust = 400F, 6:00=500f,etc I would stand back... I forgot to connect the ground and got touched this morning. It is only 1000 watts. A kitchen oven is over twice that. When it cyces on errrrrrrr! you can hear it killin electrons errrrrrrrrr! errrrrrrrr! errrrrrrrr!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2013 18:55:26 GMT -5
I would stand back... I forgot to connect the ground and got touched this morning. I always knew you were a little bit touched. or or which is it?? lol
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Post by jamesp on Sept 8, 2013 19:12:52 GMT -5
this one
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Post by 1dave on Oct 27, 2013 10:53:46 GMT -5
I "was always used to" (Georgette Heyer) bake them in the oven in sand filled bread pans - until a rock with water in a pocket geysered. Now I use a hotplate out in the shop. It heals the slabs, sometimes enhances colors, and definitely gets rid of all cutting oil!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 27, 2013 19:28:58 GMT -5
The evaporation effect on water and saw oil is effective Dave. I cooked some wet stuff w/out letting it dry at 200 for 10-20 hours and all 50 pounds of mt babies looked like this LOL I learned to store it in my greenhouse to pre dry it cheaply...Welcome to the forum.
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Post by 1dave on Oct 30, 2013 13:54:10 GMT -5
The evaporation effect on water and saw oil is effective Dave. I cooked some wet stuff w/out letting it dry at 200 for 10-20 hours and all 50 pounds of mt babies looked like this LOL I learned to store it in my greenhouse to pre dry it cheaply...Welcome to the forum. Thanks for the welcome. How much of what we know for sure . . . isn't true at all?
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Post by jamesp on Oct 30, 2013 14:35:22 GMT -5
Safest answer = most
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Post by jamesp on Oct 31, 2013 16:03:54 GMT -5
I got angry at my rock cooking oven. One of 2 heating elements was $80 and the thermostat was $350. Same type as $40 kitchen oven unit . So i went to the yard and upgraded from a 300 pound 110VAC to a 450 pound 240VAC unit for $100. Made in Louisiana by Keen it is a work of handmade art and original hand scribed serial # 921. Here it is new at $850 And here is a link www.keenovens.com/products/k-450.htmNot quite as purdy And with a new used heavy gauge cord
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