Re: Can I leave battery tender connected all winter?


<snarl67@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 07:54:23 -0500, "LarryInEastTn"
> <LarryInEastTn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>cocksuckers here want $75 for a true rick, 2x4x8. WTF? I burn a full
>>rick
>>a week when it's cold, if I don't use any elec.
>
> Holy ***! You must have a huge, drafty, under-insulated old house
> with a really old fireplace, yes?
>
> Around here we call a rick half a cord and it's a rare, cold, winter
> when we burn two cords a year. Wood is th' only heat source we have
> upstairs too. Then again, it's a small, super insulated house with a
> super efficient Quadra-Fire stove. And our temps average between
> freezing at night to low-mid 40's durin' th' day, this time of year.
>
> Good, dry, seasoned, firewood goes between $125-$175 per cord, split,
> delivered, and stacked... about th' same as youse guys.

It's your standard 2500 sq ft, 36 yr old, quazi-insulated, E. Tn. home, with
36 yr old single pane, aluminum framed windows. Semi drafty, but the big
draw is the two old sliding glass doors. We have a Fisher cast iron stove
in the basement, sans blowers. A rick might last a little longer than a
week but not much. I don't let the fire die down during the day either
though. We've got a somewhat expensive feathered son that has to stay warm
so I come by the house a couple of times a day to load the stove. Sucks but
it has to be done. As for fixing the heat pump, we have a Wed. appointment
for a new install. I suppose we got plenty of value out of the old one, it
was installed in 1984. Drinks all around Shirley, I'm sure I won't be able
to afford them by the end of the week.
--
Larry, SENS, DOF# 29, SLOB# 14, BS#(pending)
Being cold sucks, but so does being broke.


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