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I've been running my tankless water heater for almost a year on a 5 gallon propane tank. I checked it yesterday and it's still about 1/3 full. Thats a lot more efficient than a tank style heater. It provides all the hot water that we need on a small amount of propane and it takes up very little space. They are fairly expensive, but I think the return on investment would be pretty quick.
The plans for our new house had a mechanical room for the water heater and the furnace. Since we put the mechanicals under the house we now have a pantry in that space.
 
Arcticdude said:
At about 10.30 last night during a rain/snow storm one of our cows decided to have her calf. It's a little black white face hefier. It all went well until the calf slid down hill and got wedged under some brush and couldn't get up. Once I got her out and back on her wobbly legs she was fine.
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Glad she's okay!
 
Arcticdude said:
At about 10.30 last night during a rain/snow storm one of our cows decided to have her calf. It's a little black white face hefier. It all went well until the calf slid down hill and got wedged under some brush and couldn't get up. Once I got her out and back on her wobbly legs she was fine.
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Last year I saw one of the calfs in mud almost up to her belly. Figured she was stuck so I waded on out which of course I was sinking down getting stuck with each step. As I got close, that little turd took off. I just shake my head and made my way back to the gate using a stick to help me keep my balance. Glad you were able to get the calf back to momma.
 
Been busy the past couple of days, got the grader out and been pushing the snow off to the side. We taken care of about 10 mile stretch of the road the county doesn’t clear, now we can use cars to head in town. Can’t make any plans this week since I’m on call for jury duty all this week, I got to call in at 5:15pm every afternoon to see if I’m going in the following day :-/
 
Maverick said:
Been busy the past couple of days, got the grader out and been pushing the snow off to the side. We taken care of about 10 mile stretch of the road the county doesn’t clear, now we can use cars to head in town. Can’t make any plans this week since I’m on call for jury duty all this week, I got to call in at 5:15pm every afternoon to see if I’m going in the following day :-/
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I lucked out and the morning I went in to do it the guy plead and we were released. Glad you got your drive opened, but sucks that the county dosent do their part. I restocked firewood inside this morning and was thinking I probably won’t even burn all of what’s inside now. Spring is pretty much here for us now. Hard to imagine others are still dealing with large amounts of snow still. The greenhouse and garden are both fully sprouted here. They are all still only cold weather crops so am not worried about any frost we may still get. Of course all the fruit trees have blossomed too, but we will likely have a couple frosty mornings still so we will see if they get hit or produce well this year or not. Here’s to hoping you have an early warm up in your neck of the woods!
 
Brent S said:
I lucked out and the morning I went in to do it the guy plead and we were released. Glad you got your drive opened, but sucks that the county dosent do their part. I restocked firewood inside this morning and was thinking I probably won’t even burn all of what’s inside now. Spring is pretty much here for us now. Hard to imagine others are still dealing with large amounts of snow still. The greenhouse and garden are both fully sprouted here. They are all still only cold weather crops so am not worried about any frost we may still get. Of course all the fruit trees have blossomed too, but we will likely have a couple frosty mornings still so we will see if they get hit or produce well this year or not. Here’s to hoping you have an early warm up in your neck of the woods!
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It's very saturated here, the snow has been melting to fast along with rain unfortunately.
 
I spent the day installing a wiring harness and brake controller on a work van today. I don’t claim to be a mechanic, and honestly don’t want to be, but am glad I got it done and glad I figured it out. My point here is it’s good to learn diy skills for prepping. One day we may all have to do a lot more for ourselves. That being said, I wouldn’t have minded paying someone else to do this.....
 
spent last weekend training again with my unit.
as we "old ones" are allowed to use our own stuff,it was again interesting to find out,that it depends what you do what the best placements for pouches etc is, once again train and learn ;)
 
Finally got the electric people their hunk of dough so they would get us some juice out to our place. We are in line so not sure how long it will take them. Things will progress pretty fast once that is done though, and we shall be moving out to our bug in place. Then the prepping will really begin. :)
 
Got around to replacing the leaky hose on the backhoe today. Still need to change the oil on the tractor too, but it’s a step in the right direction. The grass is growing thick allready and I can’t say I’m thrilled of another season of mowing! With allergies to grass mowing just sucks. I also worked on assembling the new water filter for the well. I hope to be able to finish installing it tomorrow. Will be nice not to have the iron, sulfur and manganese in the water anymore. All the plumbing fixtures are stained red from the iron now. Can’t wait to solve that issue. It’s spring now and seems like there’s too many things to do around here. Seems as I get older I’m ok with letting some things slide more than I used to, but I’m still plugging along.
 
Brent S said:
Got around to replacing the leaky hose on the backhoe today. Still need to change the oil on the tractor too, but it’s a step in the right direction. The grass is growing thick allready and I can’t say I’m thrilled of another season of mowing! With allergies to grass mowing just sucks. I also worked on assembling the new water filter for the well. I hope to be able to finish installing it tomorrow. Will be nice not to have the iron, sulfur and manganese in the water anymore. All the plumbing fixtures are stained red from the iron now. Can’t wait to solve that issue. It’s spring now and seems like there’s too many things to do around here. Seems as I get older I’m ok with letting some things slide more than I used to, but I’m still plugging along.
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It is not that we let things slide more. As we get older, we just prioritize better.
 
Yeah, I finally got around to installing the water filter that I bought about three months ago on the well. No more metallic and sulfur smells and no more iron in the water. It was about a 5hr project, but am so glad it’s done. It has a programmable head that automatically back flushes every three days, so I don’t have to do anything for about three years. The water smells so much better now I can’t believe I procrastinated on this.
 
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