Ralph Kettell

I would suggest you dig a decent sized hole say a foot deep and as big in the X and Y direction as you like. Fill it with peat moss or coco coir.  Also add food scraps for the worms to eat.   They will be largely dornant so not too much food is necessary.  

Put a 6 inch layer of insulating brown material extending a foot or more all around larger than the peat moss hole with worms added.  Also be sure to wet the peat moss well before adding worms.  Finally build a hot compost pile on the whole thing.   Throw some insulating material on top so it holds the heat.   The worms are insulated from the heat and they can borrow down if it gets too hot.  I would set up the worms first and before it gets too cold build the hit pile on top of it.

Happy composting.

Ralph

I suspect that the old smaller ac that you had has a mechanical control and that's why you could so easily wire it in.  The beauty of the Coolbot is that it prevents all the problems that you will have if you are able to get your current design to function.   The coolbot has all the smarts to do a defrost cycle and monitor for freezing in your coils.   It is less than the cost of the properly sized ac unit.   It is up to you.   I have too many other things to do when someone else has an elegant solution that is cost effective.

I hope it works out for you

I cannot recommend highly enough the Wicked Tooth Bar from everythingattachments.com.   They are about $500 depending on tractor bucket width, but are worth twice that much.  My tractor used to bounce off the hard rocky ground here in the Ozarks, now it slices through it. Instead of sliding over roots, it rips them out of the ground.  Plus the bucket holds about 25% more material.  Unlike the other tooth edge shown in this thread, this edge does it all.  It does not affect back dragging smoothness, digging and leveling, etc.  I loved it so much I had it welded on to the bucket.  My tractor does soooo much more productive work than before.

Sincerely,

Ralph

paul wheaton wrote:

Ralph Kettell wrote:

paul wheaton wrote:I hope to round up the zoom vids today.  I'll get an idea of what all we have and the size.  I  might need to drive into missoula to upload them - so the task takes a few hours instead of a few days (our fancy starlink is 100 down, but only 5 up).

Just checking to see what the prognosis is on uploading the zoom vids.

Thanks

I think they were all uploaded to the private forum several days ago.

Great thank you.  I was using this stream to check to see if they were listed.

paul wheaton wrote:I hope to round up the zoom vids today.  I'll get an idea of what all we have and the size.  I  might need to drive into missoula to upload them - so the task takes a few hours instead of a few days (our fancy starlink is 100 down, but only 5 up).

Just checking to see what the prognosis is on uploading the zoom vids.

Thanks

paul wheaton wrote:
The recordings.  

We are trying to record everything.  Through zoom and through the fancy video editing contraption.  And there have been technical difficulties.  

The stuff coming out of the fancy stuff should be pretty fancy.  We thought "we will just record it and upload it - done!"  And just to be sure, we also recorded the lower quality zoom stuff.  

When the event is over, we will take a good, long look at what we ended up with and see what we can do.  There is already a lot of talk about editing.

I am committed to making sure that people that paid for the live stream will get access to whatever we managed to record.  But the quality might be just zoom quality, and there might be some bits missing.  

Does this help?

Thank you Paul for pulling this together.  I anxiously (but patiently) await the links to the video.  I was only able to watch bits and pieces of the first couple days but those were fabulous and extraordinarily enlightening.  Thanks to you and Helen!!!

Patrick,

I cannot find the post now as it is not on the current thread, but I recall reading (I believe Paul wrote it) that they were going to do the same thing as they had done on the PDC and there would be a way for us to post questions and Helen would be able to see it on a screen.  However they also were going to have someone that monitored the questions and would give them to Helen later if appropriate.  Sorry I don't remember which thread it was in, but I cannot have dreamed anything that detailed.  ;-)


Sorry I think a responded to a post from Patrick on page one of this thread so please ignore it.

Sincerely,

Ralph

paul wheaton wrote:I did record it.  I have not done anything else with it.

I am hardly a zoom user much less an expert, but I seen to remember that zoom has a feature that allows meeting invitees to view the meeting after the fact if it was recorded by the host.  

Hi Paul,

For those of us who missed the 12/21 prep meeting on zoom, is there a link to the recorded zoom meeting?

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Ralph Kettell

Hi Joe,

You started that the top of the chimney was not above the ridge.  In a prior house, I had a chimney that was well above the near part of the roof, but .... it was not above the peak of the house.  There was enough turbulence in the roof that when the wind was blowing in certain directions I got horrible backdraft.  I increased the height of the chimney and added a screen at the top.  Problem solved.  Not sure if this is the cause of your problems, but maybe with a try.  It also fixed the draft on current house.  I added 4 feet and a better cap and voila wonderful draft.

Best wishes with the draft.

Sincerely,

Ralph Kettell