The trailer is toast, but they did get their Dualie disconnected in time to save it. My daughter has a friend that got a big hay delivery last year and that evening a neighbor called to say that their barn was an inferno. Volatile stuff!
Went out early yesterday morning and got six trusses built by dark................ but man did I ache! Six more to go and then I'll start on the walls.
Wet or moist hay has burned many a barn! It simply starts to ferment and then it gets hot enough to ignite. Oops!
Glad all that was lost is some feed and a trailer. Dad talked of walking the barn's hay loft when young looking for hot spots often and more than once tossing warm/hot bails out the loft window. Never lost the barn but said once or twice it was closer than he or Grandpa would have liked.
The trailer is toast, but they did get their Dualie disconnected in time to save it. My daughter has a friend that got a big hay delivery last year and that evening a neighbor called to say that their barn was an inferno. Volatile stuff!
Guess the hay was baled wet or was still green. We usually don't have that problem down here in Central Texas because our climate is quite arid and dry.
The local electric co-op came down the road to trim trees from the power lines. They have a couple of bucket trucks working and a large chipper pulled by a buggy truck. I got in my Mule and told them they could dump the resulting mulch on my property so they wouldn't have to spend a lot of gas and time taking it to their dump. I got about 36 yards of mulch from them. I also told them they could park their trucks on my property so they wouldn't have to drive all three trucks back to their barn. They liked that because they could all drive back in the 4 door crew truck.
On the last morning they were here, they took the buggy truck to dump the mulch that had been in their truck overnight. It was a cool morning after a very warm day when I saw smoke coming off the mulch pile they had just dumped. Mulch goes through the same process as your hay when it is stored wet or green. I took the Lab out for a walk down to the piles. The smoke was from a spontaneous combustion from the green and wet wood chips. It had been a wet week, but they were still cutting limbs. That day we had a nice day long rain followed by the ice storm. I guess that put out the smoldering embers in the mulch. If it hadn't I was prepared to take my tractor down there to spread it out to get down to the embers. The pile was far away from structures and trees, but near the creek. I would have filled the bucket on the tractor with water from the creek to put it out. I just kept thinking how lucky they were that pile in the buggy truck didn't ignite in the buggy.
Thinking about getting a battery powered 7 1/4" circular saw to replace my corded version, will I be sorry? The batteries are ridiculous I know. I don't want something that is going to cut for an hour and need another battery. I have power run up to the site, just tired of dragging cords around.
Ya know, Ray, what you just described is likely only happening in TX or other of the "fly-over" country, still, fortunately, the USA. God Bless you, Sir, and those of all of ya'll who take care of each other.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thinking about getting a battery powered 7 1/4" circular saw to replace my corded version, will I be sorry? The batteries are ridiculous I know. I don't want something that is going to cut for an hour and need another battery. I have power run up to the site, just tired of dragging cords around.
The cordless are always powerful with long lasting batteries when they are new, but do slow down and have reduced battery life as they age. Some are better than others. This one keeps you going if there is a cord nearby. But when you are cutting on a ladder or the roof you have the convenience of cordless, and when you are on the ground you can go corded.
Of course I would have two, one of each so I could have one at the sawhorse and one on the roof/ladder.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thinking about getting a battery powered 7 1/4" circular saw to replace my corded version, will I be sorry? The batteries are ridiculous I know. I don't want something that is going to cut for an hour and need another battery. I have power run up to the site, just tired of dragging cords around.
My experience with they battery saws is that I am forever changing batteries and if the wood is a tad green, the blade smokes then stops.
Went back to electric!
Maybe others have had better luck. Oh and I built my 10x10 shed also....Battery drills were the only non electric tools!
Small portable generator available?
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thinking about getting a battery powered 7 1/4" circular saw to replace my corded version, will I be sorry? The batteries are ridiculous I know. I don't want something that is going to cut for an hour and need another battery. I have power run up to the site, just tired of dragging cords around.
I'm with Dan, I was going to suggest a small portable generator instead. I bet you would use that more than you think, and they are so quiet now.
Thanks Guys! I went and looked at them today, decided that I'd have $500 in anything that would work, including a couple of batteries. I bought a couple of new DeWalt blades for 20 bucks each and I'll drag my cords.
I sure miss the old "Oldham" blades. They had superior blades plus superior customer service with a reasonable price. Their blades gave the best cut of any and they could have charged twice the price to match some of the competition. I guess they couldn't compete for some reason. I really miss them.
On battery powered skill saws................... do you homework as it appears you have. I have one, more than 8 years old now and I am sure the technology is much better than it was but when I need good clean, quality cuts it's the corded DeWalt and a good blade. Use mine for simple tasks that aren't critical, and only a few cuts. Love the battery tools for so many things, even the Saws all or reciprocating saw but just haven't found the battery skill saw to be a good answer.
Well Hello, greetings from the – not so sunny – south coast UK.
I do join you all every day, but have little to contribute so I am silent most of the time. But I’m watching – oh, I’m watching!
Went on a lads day out last week. My mate Jim and I had the difficult task of doing some quality control work. We discovered a country inn where it is possible to have over ten different pies for lunch! Hey, I get all the tough assignments!
On the subject of tough assignments, JW’s recent switchover to the construction industry has me aghast. On our lads day out I happened upon a fine example of UK shed construction – posted hereunder by way of inspiration.
Now as Jim has alluded, I am partial to taking pictures of benches. So imagine my delight when we came across this gem. A wall mounted, chain suspension bench. Cool!
