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For what it costs to heat the current building with natural gas, I'd really be hard pressed to see the advantage of the OWB for this installation. That is particularly true when you consider the relatively small lot and very limited space for anything beyond the building and driveway.

I do have an (inside) add on wood furnace and wood burning stove in the house and a convenient location for the covered woodpile right beside the house...

The "welcome mat" is adjacent to the side door leading to the basement.

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The wood furnace loading door is on the far end of the wood stack, the woodbox on the other wall contains the smaller logs my wife likes to burn up.

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I know you have one at home.
Hell I have been in your basement :D
 

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Very tidy. As I would expect from you sir.
Years ago well before the museum Mark, my son, and I were standing in Mark's home shop.
I said this is no shop! Where is the junk?
He paused a bit, opened a few cabinets, and said there it is.
All I saw was total organization.:D
 

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My contractor friend (demolition, fill, trenching, sewer & water) was busy yesterday with back filling around the foundation and bringing the interior up to grade for the slab in the spring.

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The old building did not have any gutters so all the water running off went down into my neighbors crawl space. I will have gutters and downspouts directed into a tile to the storm sewer, plus we installed another perforated tile in the trench to run back into the storm sewer. He took advantage of the exposed wall to have spray foam applied, along with the new tile his building will have benefited from my building project.

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Sidewalk and street paving will have to wait until spring...

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I believe that you mentioned a connection between the two buildings at roof level, but no connection on the ground floor.

Why not make a connection there?

I believe this is the post you are thinking of.

The old building was too far gone to try and save it. Building will be demolished, sight prepared, and a new building similar to my current one will be going up. Ideally we can get the ground work done and the slab pored before it get too cold, then the contractor can work on the rest as weather permits through the winter months.

My idea is to have two separate buildings, but connect them at ground level with a sort of breeze way, and ideally connect them through the attic areas as well to facilitate parts storage and retrieval in the upper level.

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I know you do not want to pour the floor til spring but the weather pundits say you (and I) have some good weather coming next week. I grew up with a father that was a weather watcher. Those were the days of the "thunk thunk" TV. I was the remote He would yell out "put it on 7, put it on 9, put it on 2". He had their weather forecast timed to catch them all. Ole KWWL 7, KCRG 9 and KGAN 2. I still watch them a bit.
 

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Not a lot has happened with the new building but I have been keeping busy with parts, repairs, and getting a few more saws cleaned up for the display.

Currently have the John Deere branded Echo twin hitting the bench, and that will be followed by a Lombard/Dynamark.

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Then Mono 86 cleaned up fairly well, I had to go carefully because too much cleaning would start to remove some paint.

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I forgot to take any photos on the bench once it was done and the bar & chain installed. Bar is NOS Oregon Armor Tip and the chain is NOS Sabre 7/16 chipper. I did my best to reattach the model/serial number label that had peeled off.

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The Red Mono (58) as restored by Ronald"T" and is a real work of art.

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Do you happen to have a Oregon Catalog that covers these two bars, I believe they came from a Mono saw from around the early to mid 60’s. I was thinking about using one on a XP1100G if it will fit
 

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I do have a few Malls, some already cleaned up in the display and several more (1 and 2 man) waiting in the wings. In addition to the gasoline saws, I have 3 or 4 electric and one pneumatic Mall in the display already.

I currently have a Titan Blue Streak, Titan 30, and Titan 40 in the display.

The new building will have a similar size display area up front devoted to more saws primarily. The center section will be designed for easy conversion to a kitchen/living area but will used (for now) for displaying some of the smaller collectable items, literature, advertising, etc.. The new shop will be set up in a similar fashion to the current shop, but devoted to the cleaner activities so I can make more of a mess in the current shop.

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I will be having an "open house" on 28/29 March here at the museum. Coffee & donuts in the morning and probably pizza sometime in the afternoon both days.

For those that need/want to run saws there will be a place about 4 mile away; I won't have any here at that time due to construction on the new building next door.

I don't have any space for campers here, but there is a county operated campground just on the south edge of town, I doubt the facilities will be up by then but there would be space available anyway.

I will be checking later to try and get an idea of how many to expect.

Mark
 
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