Recent content by Firebrick43

Self grounding outlets "MUST" have the yoke to touch the box/mud ring mounting flanges. 250.146(A), If not you need a separate bonding conductor is needed. The mud ring/cover has to be flat as well where it mounts to the box with screws, no raised mounting areas. You can add a ground...

Buildings with good solar gain (south facing windows) can have issues even with a floor stat on sunny calm days. Probably not an issue but they do make thermostats that measure both slab and air temp. An outdoor reset in conjunction with the floor stat to prevent over runs on those days.

You haven't looked at hardly any installations then? Almost all of it is put on the bottom with little issue. Either with snap in insulation board Or attached to foam with one of the several staplers sold for the purpose Putting it in the middle of the slab is a good way to catch a...

Why wouldn’t it? Do you push the trimmer away from your hip to the side 6” or more? I have experienced a mild kickback when a half burried cultivator shovel a farmer lost in the past worked its way up. The bar caught me right in the hip working exactly as designed. I hold my trigger hand by...

They kick back worse. That is why handle bars are required

Do a stucco finish on the inside and level it with the scratch coat?

I wouldn't go with a 372 as a main saw. I have a 362 stihl which is comparable to the husky 562 and sometimes I think it would be nice to have a MS260 for a limbing saw. The 362 is a nice saw for 36" and smaller trees although can do up to a 48" log without to much issues. And its not too...

Depends on the house. We have a tiny Jotul F100 stove and it heats our 1450 square foot house just fine although its going full bore in sub zero weather. The far bedroom is going to be 60-65 instead of 75-80 like the living room but I cant stand to sleep that hot anyways. Actually if the wife...

The right three look new or properly resharpened. The left one (same one holding in your hands???) looks like it may have had made a light finish pass or two made with it or it maybe just lint on the corners and camera angles

It does something. If in your swinging the trimmer side to side and you come across a hard object like a steel pipe or ground rod the trimmer can come back at you violently. Since many are not built like Alan Richardson nor keep a death grip on the handles it can come out of their hands and...

Touchy aren't we. I was laughing about "the beam, where cheater pipe witness marks would be." Its a humorous comment. Is it not sarcasm?

I have a customer with a propane powered 302 compressor I have seen VW flat four with 2 cylinders running and 2 pumping

The equipment they install in Lafayette is usually in place for 25 to 30 years or more. A surprising amount is still in place from 1982. Its large specialized machinery. They will collect taxes on it over the course of time. Not to mention all the ancillary jobs created that are not Cat...

That is not at all how the abatement works. They pay plenty of taxes over the 10 years on the additional investment. Only the first year do they not pay anything on the investment increase and by year 10 its only a 10 percent decrease to their tax bill, and that is only to the new equipment...

Caterpillar flat out told the state in 2011 that they would relocate plants out of the state if Illinois raised corporate taxes again. I remember being in Peoria for training listening to the radio on some state spokesperson saying that Cat wouldn't actually do that. Illinois raised taxes...