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[Stumpfarmer]

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More true than I can say.

Also: love your new sig!

Julia, trying to deal, and not dealing.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

HSH Yes my stove is a little large. It is rated to heat 2000sf. Our house is no where near that big. I got this stove for less than the smaller size I wanted because this had been a store display.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Explain to the flat lander please. Avalanche Control, do they stop traffic, cause an avalanche, clean it up and make everyone wait? That could take hours. Don't they detour the traffic?

You post this at 4:25 why would they do this during rush hour?





Edit - added a question.

Yes, they stop traffic and make everyone wait. Yes, It takes hours. It is a mountain pass so there is no detour. I've only been over the passes a few times and not in winter but I would suspect that there is no real 'Rush hour' since most people usually work on the side they live on. I also don't know what makes them decide it's time to do it but when it needs done it better get done! I think they try to let people know as far ahead as possible so you postpone your trip a few hours. Maybe wanted to get it done before the Thanksgiving rush! I'm sure others know more details about it than me.

SANE people live and work on the same side of the pass. There are at least a couple of hundred people who work in Redmond and live in Roslyn, Cle Elum or Ellensburg.

And then there's the DOT road crews, who are either masterfully sane of champions of functional insanity, live on both sides of the pass, and spend the winter meeting the worst of the weather with snow plows. And the Washington National Guard guy who actually fires the mortars for avalanche control.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Ayup: the manchild needs to be at work in E'burg at midnight tomorrow, though and he doesn't have a car to do it

He expects his Dad to drive: he hasn't lived here in a long while.

 

[hallerlake]

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More true than I can say.

Also: love your new sig!

Julia, trying to deal, and not dealing.

Thanks. Too bad there is a line and character limit that doesn't allow me to credit it.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Explain to the flat lander please. Avalanche Control, do they stop traffic, cause an avalanche, clean it up and make everyone wait? That could take hours. Don't they detour the traffic?

You post this at 4:25 why would they do this during rush hour?

Edit - added a question.

We've had a devil of a lot of rain/snow recently and they cause avalanches on purpose (with explosives) before things get too heavy on the slopes over the freeway. It's much better that way than all that snow coming down on cars when IT wants to and killing people. It's something that just happens in the winter when there is bad weather. As others have said - there is no (easy) detour. You could drive all the way down to the river and go back up the other side but that would probably take a lot longer than waiting.

Well, there's Stevens or White, but White is higher and for the rest of the winter the best you can count on "packed snow and ice" as the best road conditions, and to take Stevens from Ellensburg you either have to drive ANOTHER mountain pass (Blewitt) or take WA97, which yesterday was a sheet of ice from George to Wenatchee and THEN get to drive to Olympia via all of Seattle, which hallerlake can tell you is its own kind of joy.

Satus Pass to the Columbia Gorge is another kettle of fish: says something that the first time (in my life of visiting relatives an the Eastside and going to WSU) I ever took Satus was on my 25th wedding anniversary. There was that jolly time a few years ago when all of the easy passes from Vancouver to Vancouver were closed by a nightmare storm (the one that also wiped out the road up to Paradise) and basically nobody went anywhere.

 

[SadieSue]

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Ayup: the manchild needs to be at work in E'burg at midnight tomorrow, though and he doesn't have a car to do it

He expects his Dad to drive: he hasn't lived here in a long while.

Glad he made it home to your place. At least one part of the worry is over.

 

[SadieSue]

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More true than I can say.

Also: love your new sig!

Julia, trying to deal, and not dealing.

Thanks. Too bad there is a line and character limit that doesn't allow me to credit it.

Oh, that is good. I hadn't read it before.

 

[hallerlake]

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Ayup: the manchild needs to be at work in E'burg at midnight tomorrow, though and he doesn't have a car to do it

He expects his Dad to drive: he hasn't lived here in a long while.

Sounds like my sister may not make it from Ellensburg for tomorrow. I keep telling her she needs to get a vehicle better suited to the passes.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yes they do but it is not easy to describe. It is mostly in the bark and the shade of grey the wood is.

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Lets start with CLEAN the flue. Then yes a good hot fire daily wll help. Also to reduce build up make sure that you only burn well seasoned wood. Seasoned wood by WA law is wood that has been cut AND split for a min of 90 days. It really needs longer to be real good. Also try to maintain an internal flue temp of 300-500*F. I am really curious about the size of your stove and the settings, based on the burn time you report.
Hope this is a little help. feel free to ask any more questions. I don't know all the answers but am willing to share what little I do know.

For green oak, 90 days is barely enough to change "dripping wet" to "too wet to burn;" for four inch round maple cut after the leaves fall it dries to kindling if quartered and stacked out of the rain for a week. Making laws about these things are silly.