Keystone State Thread

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Which makes me 4 hours from ya...

 

so anyone else tired of this cold ass weather?

 

Yup! Just had to order my 4th delivery of oil. Granted, the 2 I paid for were not full tanks, but still. That was $366 I could've spent on other things. I swear I want to get one of those outdoor wood furnaces this summer! Damn oil prices are killing me. Not to mention the fact I have to wait for someone else to bring fuel instead of just being about to go out and get some myself to restock our supply when we start getting low, or I have time.

 

you gotta be prepared like me. i have a wood/coal burner and an oil burner plus electric heat. so bring it on mother nature!!

 

I have a pellet stove that does a decent job of holding 65-70 across our first floor, but pellets went up $2/bag this year! That means $90 for ~15 days of fuel. Or $100 more than last year for a pallet. Needless to say I haven't been using it much this winter. Thought about doing more with pellets, but this winter I realized a drop in the housing, furniture, or logging industries leads to increased price in pellets. Same thing from an increase in oil prices between cost of making them, and freight. So with so many things that can drive up the cost I think I'll switch to wood. I have land we can get it from, and if the housing or furniture markets slump I might be able to buy a load of logs cheaper.

But yeah, I know I need something to reduce oil dependence. Would love to look into solar, wind, geothermal, etc, but I don't have the $$$$ to invest right now.

 

Yeah, I'd love to do a secondary heat loop to my barn for radiant floor heat after pouring a concrete floor! Don't see it happening soon though.

 

yeah but soon we will be bitching about it being to freaking hot.

 

I'm from Lock Haven/ State College area....but now I'll be relocating to Alaska for a few years lol

 

sweet dude where at in lockhaven? what your truck look like? i work at the puff store in mill hall. i drive the lifted speed way blue that runs around town.

 

noticed that AFTER i posted. haha. i think i seen him roaming around also.

 

speaking of which you need to add some to your gallery

 

well if you go now no one will know what it is cause its muddy as shit up there..well no right now cause everything is frozen solid...even the animals.

 

I will be stationed up there, and in April, I'll be making the trip cross country in my Taco, so I was thinking of taking some sort of photo tour of the Continent lol. I should have some pretty sweet pics of my truck along the ALCAN, the Canadian Rockies, and other cool places

 

then you will see plenty of it. especially when you get by lazy bees and get into the red mud.