The year of the Dragon...oops out of sync
Out of sync and halfway there, except in my cabin
I blew a big candle at midnight. In fact I ignited a dragon! In the situation I am in, it did not feel right to trigger anything else, such as a party or any celebration. I left my "office" at a few minutes after 11:00pm. Didn't wanna hear the NY's commotion.
Earlier in the day, I asked a friend if we could go right now and buy this propane furnace on special at CT. Earlier in the week she had seen it on sale in the weekly folder of CT and offered to buy it on her credit card and let me pay back later.
It is blowing between 15k and 25k BTU which is more than enough to burn my shack down! My little parabolic camping heater was giving more than signs of fatigue lately: it had stopped all together. In fact it is the valve that got clogged by whatever, inducing the gas to stay in the hose and kinda pressurised. Not much safe. As I arrived one night the place was rather cold and the cats were all packed and trying to keep up their warmth together. Misery has its nice sides. Solidarity grows, for cats are usually pretty individualistic beasts. I had to improvised something to heat the place fairly.
The only thing I had handy was my welding torch beek. I decided to remove the camping heater unworking valve and coupled my torch to the heater pipe with tape...
It sure worked but it certainly does not perform as well as the valve which was obviously designed to work in there. Instead of transforming the little heating grid in the middle of that parabolic funnel into a red hot device, the flame came out noisily and blueishly as well as yellow. Hmmm. Well, I thought, that will do it for the time being, since I did not have much other choice. Mind you I could have gotten back to the "office" and organise a makeshift bed but I did not want to leave the cats alone in the cold.
The heat came out. No problem. In fact it got rather hot in there, around 85-90�F, though not without polluting my environment. I consider the emanations as nasty stuff. Since you are supposed to breath to clean up your blood, an exposure to more pollution than what you are supposed to clean make the life expectancy shorter for you. That solution then really had to be very temporary and in an emergency. I really underwent worsening body conditions that I directly link to my little device. Anyhow, two nights in a row I simply shut down the heat in the cabin, for it was way too hot to sleep. Thus, all in all, I only used it one night.
Knowing this friend had said she would come over yesterday and bring some goodies and wishing to have lunch with me, I asked her if we could go to CT to get the beast.
So we did. It is no small trip I consider: 65 miles back & forth. Hey, we're in the country and things are pretty distant around here. Anyhow, on the way back we stopped at the cabin, unloaded the beast and carried on the journey back to my "office".
Thus last night as I arrived and finding the place not too cold (I had left the oil lamps with the homemade convector on top burning all day) I started to install the device though not before reading first the exceptional amount of warnings on the labels, leaflets, etc. So I was kinda aware of the danger of using this.
There's the beast! It is impressive on pic but rather small in actual size.
Thus at midnight sharp I finally triggered the gas. It came out like a dragon blowing his nose. Gees! Well, well, well. If this does not heat the place I don't know what will. Within 10 minutes it went from the freezing point to a balmy 90�F in there.
So I had to stop the monster quick and start to reflect on the use of it for the rest of the winter because, unlike the little camping heater, it is absolutely out of question to leave that one on for the duration of my absence. Neither the cabin, nor the cats would be there to let me know how appreciative they are of my initiative!
I fear not the fire, leaving my oil lamps burning their midday oil while I am away. And the cats do not require 90� to be OK. Even if it is only 32� or so in there, there are comfortably installed in the bed and keeping their heat. They haven't done much activity anyway since the winter started. Only one cat really goes out in the snow. The others are not interested at all.
Earlier in the day, I asked a friend if we could go right now and buy this propane furnace on special at CT. Earlier in the week she had seen it on sale in the weekly folder of CT and offered to buy it on her credit card and let me pay back later.
It is blowing between 15k and 25k BTU which is more than enough to burn my shack down! My little parabolic camping heater was giving more than signs of fatigue lately: it had stopped all together. In fact it is the valve that got clogged by whatever, inducing the gas to stay in the hose and kinda pressurised. Not much safe. As I arrived one night the place was rather cold and the cats were all packed and trying to keep up their warmth together. Misery has its nice sides. Solidarity grows, for cats are usually pretty individualistic beasts. I had to improvised something to heat the place fairly.
The only thing I had handy was my welding torch beek. I decided to remove the camping heater unworking valve and coupled my torch to the heater pipe with tape...
It sure worked but it certainly does not perform as well as the valve which was obviously designed to work in there. Instead of transforming the little heating grid in the middle of that parabolic funnel into a red hot device, the flame came out noisily and blueishly as well as yellow. Hmmm. Well, I thought, that will do it for the time being, since I did not have much other choice. Mind you I could have gotten back to the "office" and organise a makeshift bed but I did not want to leave the cats alone in the cold.
The heat came out. No problem. In fact it got rather hot in there, around 85-90�F, though not without polluting my environment. I consider the emanations as nasty stuff. Since you are supposed to breath to clean up your blood, an exposure to more pollution than what you are supposed to clean make the life expectancy shorter for you. That solution then really had to be very temporary and in an emergency. I really underwent worsening body conditions that I directly link to my little device. Anyhow, two nights in a row I simply shut down the heat in the cabin, for it was way too hot to sleep. Thus, all in all, I only used it one night.
Knowing this friend had said she would come over yesterday and bring some goodies and wishing to have lunch with me, I asked her if we could go to CT to get the beast.
So we did. It is no small trip I consider: 65 miles back & forth. Hey, we're in the country and things are pretty distant around here. Anyhow, on the way back we stopped at the cabin, unloaded the beast and carried on the journey back to my "office".
Thus last night as I arrived and finding the place not too cold (I had left the oil lamps with the homemade convector on top burning all day) I started to install the device though not before reading first the exceptional amount of warnings on the labels, leaflets, etc. So I was kinda aware of the danger of using this.
There's the beast! It is impressive on pic but rather small in actual size.
Thus at midnight sharp I finally triggered the gas. It came out like a dragon blowing his nose. Gees! Well, well, well. If this does not heat the place I don't know what will. Within 10 minutes it went from the freezing point to a balmy 90�F in there.
So I had to stop the monster quick and start to reflect on the use of it for the rest of the winter because, unlike the little camping heater, it is absolutely out of question to leave that one on for the duration of my absence. Neither the cabin, nor the cats would be there to let me know how appreciative they are of my initiative!
I fear not the fire, leaving my oil lamps burning their midday oil while I am away. And the cats do not require 90� to be OK. Even if it is only 32� or so in there, there are comfortably installed in the bed and keeping their heat. They haven't done much activity anyway since the winter started. Only one cat really goes out in the snow. The others are not interested at all.
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