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3:29 pm 1/2/23 Burgers, taters, and onions on the grill outside! LOL!!!!

6:15 STILL cleaning up the mess from the oil leak.

5:41 pm 1/2/23 --- food was great off the grill! -- kinda liking this thing! lol!

grill cooked food is ALWAYS better 7:18

6:40 pm 1/2/23 coffe time for me again!

11:29 1/2/23 --- nighty night --bed time!

Got wrapped up in the game last night Shocked by the Kid having cardiac arrest. that hit must have been just right to stop the kids heart.


9:48AM

11:32 am 1/3/23 First cup of coffee fo the day,--late start cause I had a painfull night!

Me too Jim. His days of football playing may be over. Hope he recovers and can work in the NFL someplace. Never saw an ambulance on the field before. Sad

Today just hangin around waiting for a generator to be deliverd. Bought a 13 KW dual fuel Duromax. Should do everything I need it for when the lights go out in a hurricane. My 5500 Generac did the job during the recent Ian hurricane, but sold that. New unit should be able to run most all my stuff. I could have gone with a 22kw standby but they are getting about $22K for those and buried LP tank. Ill have about $1300 in this setup with a panel interlock plate to supply the whole house. I'm sure I will have to alternate some heavy use stuff like central air conditioner and stove but it should do OK.

1:31 pm --- still messin with part numbers on the internet! lol! --- gotta get the grill going later to do some burgers and onions,--probably another big tater too, --Virginia informed me that is going to be supper!! LOL! She got hooked on the grilled stuff!

Stan that 13kw will run your whole house no problem..just keep most of the lights off,only run what you need and you'll do fine..I sell 10kw water cooled diesel units to people all the time to run their homes during emergencies,they will actually do more than the 10kw rating. I'm sure in South Central FL that A/C is very important..set it up right and it'l last you..glad to read you went with the breaker interlock, nothing really to go wrong there,no circuit boards to crap out when you need it the most and cant get parts in the middle of a hurricane..good deal

Bunkclimber checking in, helping Sonny get his part numbers right..the Dorman girl sounded so sweet on the phone,Sonny did you get to talk to her?
4:13PM EST 1/3/2023

12k is what's recommended for a 3 1/2 ton heat pump, and that's only due to compressor start up. you should have power to spare.

they always sound sweet.

strange day for work. enjoying a beer then back to the task of cleaning stuff up. made a lot of progress this weekend.

4:43 pm 1/3/23

6:07 chatting with a guy on the UBB forums about our email notification issue.

11:20 pm 1/3/23 --- tornadoes not far from us tonight, ----- looks like they heading this way. Weather been bad all day plus we had fog for 3 days non stop,---unusal for us. the rain part of these 2 systems kinda missed,---one went south of us and the other one went north leaving a narrow slot that went over us.
Looks like its setting up for a dry summer here again. Rain did the same thing last year,---missed us by a few miles every time!
Nighty night!!

8:37 am 1/4/23 cold and clear at surface, cloudy up higher, today 35* light wind, storms last night went on past us.

2:19Pm EST 1/4/2023 raining here, nasty stay inside kinda day

2:11 pm 1/4/23 ---- I sent ya the rain!!! We had that pass here the other day and I turned it towards you!! YOUR WELCOME!!! lol!

5:20 pm 1/4/23 ----fishcakes for supper!! LOL!!

Got the new generator a few hours ago. I'm now constructing a weatherproof enclosure for it to sit outside. It will have an exhaust fan with louvers and cool air intake vent. Will also fabricate a thimble to route the motor exhaust out the side of the enclosure. My younger neighbor and partner in crime is helping and reminding me of things to do that I easily forget to plan for. It is a dual fuel model so gas or LP are the options. Should do the job Bunkie. I'll post some photos of the build and outside setup. I have the recept, the interlock plate and 50Amp breaker already installed so all thats left is the enclosure and plugging it in. Hope I never have to use it.

go update that breaker to a 60amp,thats more or less 14kw, gives you some headroom..the breaker won't trip exactly at 60amp but will give you some headroom so you dont overheat it,once the breaker gets hot it will trip more easily..-its a thermal magnetic design. the 60a will allow you for some surges in current but still protect the generator against faults(shorts) You want to size your generator breaker at 120% of maximum rating of the generator..if you go less it's OK, it'l just limit your capacity. What wire size are you using for your install? permanently wired in or cord+plug connected?

busy day at work today.. just getting inside.

11:23 pm 1/4/23 ---- nighty night!!!

Bunk, The generator is a plug in 50A. cord with recept outside. Wired with THHN #6 to a 50A breaker.

12:05 1/6/2023 Didn't even get near a computer yesterday

2:00PM EST 1/6/2023 Looking down on Sonny via satellite..that bend in the river next to you ever flood? -IL is so flat

River channel is too deep to ever flood. They dig it out every few years to keep it straight and flowing. That is where I wanted to get 1400 feet of 2 or 3 inch hose to hook all my pumps together to pump water over to the garden tanks.
We are 3 miles from the head end of the Sangamon river and it ends up down southwest a long ways. It starts out 1/4 mile north of Ellsworth coming out of a 10 inch field tile across Butch Green's farm. By the time it gets this far its getting wild, so they made a bigger/deeper channel to contain it. I have seen it bank full only 2 times in 15 years.
Sis calls this area the tundra! lol! Colder than hell in winter and hotter than hell in summer. Wind never stops blowing either, I still say they need to build windfarms here!!! LOL!!!!

looks like they've started with all the whirly gigs. ain't worth a shit if they don't plug em into the grid tho

6:10PM 1/7/23
ordered a ton of screws and hardware,taps and drills from MSCDirect..springtime shop stock,once a year recharge the shop

Ya!--all that is produced here in our windfarm goes into the lines that feed Chicago and goes right over our head!
8:15 pm 1/7/23

Puttered all around yesterday. watching the Bills game right now 2:09

5:59 pm 1/8/23

getting ready for an up date... been busy.. 7:44

945AM 1/9/23 first coffee break..
still digging and sorting thru project parts and pieces,putting things away..trying to put a stop to the clutter..it's endless.
trash dumpster is full-I guess I did accomplish something with my weekend

10:52 1/9/23 Just approved another member.

6:30 pm 1/9/23 Had to meet with county road people,---been fighting them about the roadside at the home place, --- I dished out some lawsuit threats at this meeting and got their attention,---then we talked man to man and got WAY more favorable results when they found that you dont f**k with sonny!
I explained what sis and I needed IF they went with the village demands and they decided real quick that total cost was more that they had to spend! Anyway we agreed on an alt. option that all of us could live with,-- well cept the village and f**k them! --- its a county road thru Downs and county is the keepers of it.
Funny how you have to use threats of lawsuits to get their attention!! LOL--- God I hate having to be the badass, but ya gotta do what ya gotta doo or get run over! LOL

Well you pay taxes right? they need to keep the damn roads straight..