John Wolfram

The Amazons were slow in delivering the battery powered heater this weekend, so I wasn't able to test it out. However, placing warm coals from a fire pit in pot under my brush hog for about 20 minutes worked wonderfully in getting it started in 5F weather. Hoping to try out the electric blanket next weekend.

thomas rubino wrote:I have never tried this, but I'm sure it would help.
I wonder how long a battery would last?
Might, take a bit to  heat up the metal enough for it to be above ambient room temperature.

According to Amazon, it say's it should last about 4 hours on a standard 20V DeWalt battery, so I'll figure 2 hours per battery. Luckily, I have several so that shouldn't be a problem. I doubt it will ever get things warm, but just going from 5F to 45F would be a huge improvement for some things.

Decided to spend $30 and order one. Will report back in a week or two with the results.

Anyone ever use a battery powered blanket for warming machinery/equipment in the cold?

For some reason, I got it into my head that a 5F/-15C morning would be the perfect time to do some brush hogging with my walk-behind DR mower out at my orchard. After about 10 minutes of trying to get it started I gave up and decided it was not to be that morning. Last week, I was dealing with low pressure in a really cold propane torch I was trying to use, and there are couple more months of winter to go.

I've been looking for an easy way to heat things up while out there, but don't have electricity or gas available at the orchard. Burn barrels can throw off a lot of heat, but would be a bit of a pain to set up. So, I've been thinking about using an inexpensive battery powered blanket as a makeshift block heater and was wondering if anyone has tried something similar. If so, how well did it work?

Part of the issue may be the shear volume of corn produced. The US produces about a trillion pounds of corn per year, or about 2,500 pounds of corn  per person in the US. With that much being produced, it's relatively easy to overwhelm the demand for human consumed corn.

If not for closet doors, every closet in my house and their contents would be covered in a layer of cat hair.

For what it's worth, I get much better cell reception in the basement of my new wood siding/asphalt single house than anywhere in my old metal roof aluminum siding house even though the old house was closer to the cell tower. Earth-sheltering a house probably won't hurt, but making your house into a big Faraday cage will likely be more effective.

My advice would be to let both of them grow for at least a year or two, and then cull out the weaker one. A lot can happen to a newly grafted tree, so it's good to have a backup.

C. Letellier is absolutely right about new carbs being super cheap. With E10 -- or god forbid E15 -- gas becoming common those small engine carbs don't stand a chance, and get swapped out regularly.

To drastically reduce the issues you have in the future, consider using only ethanol-free gas in your small engines. This website has a good listing of gas stations where it can be bought by the gallon. https://www.pure-gas.org/

I'm guessing someone sued the firearm manufacturer and argued that they weren't warned about the dangers of putting their hand in front of the gun while firing, and hence we now get this stupid warning.

Marshall Ashworth wrote:So now my question is, when exactly did they start breeding seeds out of food ?

At least a few thousand years ago. I, for one, am glad our bananas and watermelon don't look like this anymore.