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Working on our Missouri Property
Tech141
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Over the past year or so, I have posted a few questions about the care and feeding of some property the wife and I have found in Missouri. Many folks have given advice and I sure am appreciative. I just spent last Friday/Saturday out there prepping the Polebarn/Workshop for a garage door that I'm gonna install next month. Also installed some entry doors and hooked the generator into the elect distribution box so I now have lights and working outlets.
Next thing I need to do is find a decent, used wood stove to install for heat during the winter...
Anyhoo, I just want to say THANKS! to all who have offered suggestions/advice. I have posted a bunch of pictures of the land to my PhotoBucket albums. If you are interested take a look...
http://s1084.photobucket.com/home/tech1411
I hope everyone has a Great Day!
Next thing I need to do is find a decent, used wood stove to install for heat during the winter...
Anyhoo, I just want to say THANKS! to all who have offered suggestions/advice. I have posted a bunch of pictures of the land to my PhotoBucket albums. If you are interested take a look...
http://s1084.photobucket.com/home/tech1411
I hope everyone has a Great Day!
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Got pics?
Right here, Yoshmyster.....
http://s1084.photobucket.com/home/tech1411
Thanks for keeping us all in the loop!
Appears that things are moving along well ... looking mighty good.
Appreciate all the photos to go with you all's story and questions too.
Congrats and the Best to you all.
There is a 162-acre plot connected to ours that the owner offered to sell us for $126,000. If we only had that kind of money.....
Any buildings on the land? How many acres are wooded for hunting?
I had a fair number of friends and acquaintances that put them in also. Never heard from anyone that used them and had any sense about wood burning stoves.
My take on them is that they are simple, straight forward design with good design and efficiency characteristics that are made well and are sturdy.
Cute, fancy, dressy or frilly they are not.
Advise that you use the best quality stove pipe that you can get.
Get the stovepipe brush, etc. immediately and keep it squeaky clean ... the efficiency goes up as does the safety.
Dry, well-seasoned stove wood is the way to go.
( JMHO and not meant to sound like no one knows nothing ... ! We heated with wood for many, many years both in Alaska and in Nevada. So what I did not know going into it ... I learned thru trial and error. Figure there is no sane reason for anyone else to learn things the ignorant way as I done! ) [;)]
Say on your creek passing are you going to sink a steel pipe and put earth over it so you don't have to puddle jump everytime it rainds? I suppose you could do the Dukes Of Hazzard over it, Yeehaw!!! [:D]
How bad are ticks out there?
Nice patch of the world you got there.
quote:Originally posted by Tech141
There is a 162-acre plot connected to ours that the owner offered to sell us for $126,000. If we only had that kind of money.....
Any buildings on the land? How many acres are wooded for hunting?
There aren't any buildings that I can tell, and it's all wooded. However, I got the numbers mixed up. It's 126 acres for $165,000. Sorry 'bout that.
Where ya at in MO?
6 Miles South of Iberia, Mo, on highway EE.
With a pic entitled "back Entry" I was expecting something differnt [:D].
Say on your creek passing are you going to sink a steel pipe and put earth over it so you don't have to puddle jump everytime it rainds? I suppose you could do the Dukes Of Hazzard over it, Yeehaw!!! [:D]
Well, with the creek crossing, will what you suggest be strong enough to support heavy equipment that will be used to build the house (Dump-trucks, full concrete trucks, and the like...)?
What I was originally thinking was to drop the 14 inch culvert pipe, cover with gravel, then lay a 5-inch pad of concrete/rebar across the top. OF COURSE, I would first make some retaining walls on the left/right side of the bridge to contain the gravel/concrete. Is that Too Much, you think?
Iberia Mo those rednecks will shoot you haha my Wife dad and step- mom lived there for years. Not to far for goooooood fishing and some nice hunting
Actually, I've had NO problem with the folks there. I'm letting a guy there run 30+ head of beef cattle on the property in exchange for keeping an eye on it and brush hogging every 4-5 months. So far he's been doing a great job keeping an eye out, and I have no doubt that he will continue to do so. He lives approx. 1 mile from the property and is checking it every 2 - 3 days. I trust him 100% as far as ouyr agreement goes.
I found a good wood stove locally that I got for a greaqt price and will be taking it down there in a week or so. Fired it up yesterday and it works great.
Well, with the creek crossing, will what you suggest be strong enough to support heavy equipment that will be used to build the house (Dump-trucks, full concrete trucks, and the like...)?
What I was originally thinking was to drop the 14 inch culvert pipe, cover with gravel, then lay a 5-inch pad of concrete/rebar across the top. OF COURSE, I would first make some retaining walls on the left/right side of the bridge to contain the gravel/concrete. Is that Too Much, you think?
Culvert pipe is that that rippled steel pipes? I don't know the proper name (just know what it looks like). If nothing else build when there is no rains [:D]. I'd over build it than under and watch it crap out on it's maiden load. I wonder if you can snake one of those 2" thick steel plates off a road construction?
Don't burn galvanized pipe, the fumes are toxic.
Guaranteed.
...Zinc plating will do that. We used to sell 16"x10' culverts to a stone masonry company. They buried them in their sand piles before winter, then lit fires in them to thaw the sand. Sometimes, I'd torch cut 20 footers down for them. Those white fumes will knock you for a loop....[xx(]