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Old 06-29-2007, 11:54 AM   #1
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Ok Slacker..........

Brush all those potato chips off your fat belly, put the remote back on the Coffee table, and get up off the couch to help me change a furnace or two out.....
These old babys are Antiques, heavy as a wedge and are on a platform a foot or so up in the air. The 'Little' one weighs 350#, will bring about $4.00 at the scrap yard, the giant magnet crawler will hover the big magnet about 12 to 20" above the top of it, and whoosh! up she goes.
Here's the job....
Old furnaces to be changed out;
http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=100_1703.jpg
http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=100_1706.jpg
Both of the are up in the air;
http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=100_1707.jpg
http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=100_1749.jpg
Piped and wired;
http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=100_1751.jpg
The new furnace completed:
http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=100_1756.jpg
Two new units to replace the one big one;
http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n...t=100_1750.jpg
OK, back on the couch, I'll come and get you when I'm ready to change out the big boy.
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Old 06-29-2007, 12:07 PM   #2
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That looked like a lot of work to me. In fact I had the wife get me another beer I got so tired.LOL
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Old 06-29-2007, 12:10 PM   #3
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Hey OZZMAN, I laughed so hard I nearly fell off the couch.... I just loved all the on site on furnace written instructions...../you forgot to put them in spanish TOO..
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Old 06-29-2007, 01:06 PM   #4
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This post really hits home with me. I am in the process of changing out my 30 year old combination wood/oil dinosaur. This thing is huge and when I got my final quote for my new heat pump with electric heat air mover I asked the HVAC guy how much I would save if I got rid of the old furnace myself. He said he would knock off 200 bucks if I got rid of the old girl myself. I laughed and said for 200 bucks you can take her out. You HVAC guys earn your money the hard way.
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Old 06-29-2007, 02:27 PM   #5
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Damn, that was hard, hot and dirty work, Ozz. Pass me another beer will you? I have had a kidney stone problem off and on for years, and my doc said to be sure to "replace the fluids"...the beer is for medicinal purposes.
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Old 06-29-2007, 03:04 PM   #6
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Bert - You have the right Idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have one or two for me. Later John
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Old 06-29-2007, 05:28 PM   #7
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Been there, done that to many times, have fun.
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Old 06-30-2007, 03:41 AM   #8
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LMAOOO@the beer!! sorry Ozz, you past my furnace intellectual experience! gotta have a coors after that.
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Old 07-03-2007, 07:11 AM   #9
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I am on vacation so I will be happy to pick up some extra beer.....LOL Ice them down and have two, one for you, and one for me......hehehehe

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Old 07-03-2007, 02:57 PM   #10
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How cum you have all the fun? TOO FUNNY! Reminds of the time when I was a young kid (16), living in Austin Nevada, about 1 1/2 blocks long and the old man who owned the drugstore, soda fountain, bar, store in town wanted to replace his old under floor furnace. He asked me If I wanted to dig out the crawlway for him for free burgers and shakes all summer.

SURE!!!!four weeks later and two worn out pair of levis from laying on my belly and digging in front of me I had cleared a trench 3 feet deep and 20 feet long through two old foundations and
a bunch of man size rocks. FUN? I cussed that old man till the day i left for Alaska on my own (that's another story). I learned a lot from that experience.....
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Old 07-03-2007, 05:20 PM   #11
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That wore me out..need to take a nap..
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Old 07-05-2007, 06:58 PM   #12
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We used to have an old coal burning monster that had been converted to an oil burner. We had to use a cutting torch to make some of the parts small enough to handle. It is now just a distant memory.
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Old 07-06-2007, 01:50 AM   #13
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Clutch, it's amazing how small and compact they are making them now. Nothing like those monsters of old.
Remember the Gravity furnaces?
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Old 07-06-2007, 04:00 AM   #14
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In our part of the country never had to deal with coal or oil burners, just electric, natural gas, liquified petroleum. Much less weight than it looked like that equipment was. I often thought that if the person that designed the space where the equipment was to be installed had to go and service it, the next design would be different. In a kidding fashion Ozz, I thought you had retired, oh well you can take the man out of the service but you cant take the service out of the man.Having been pretty much out of the business for 10 yrs, I got a call from a past employer to design and build some tables that would hold a 200ton capacity, screw compressor, the water cooled condensor and the control cabinet--one system per table. Did I jump at the opportunity, yep, sure did. Felt good to be back involved if just for a short,short.
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Old 07-06-2007, 05:05 AM   #15
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ole dude, we can't pass up that beer $$$$!
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Old 07-06-2007, 12:56 PM   #16
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Shuckie darn, I thought it was for the love of the industry.
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Old 07-07-2007, 02:17 AM   #17
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Ozz, I love work. I can sit and watch it for hours. Let me know when you are going to do it again so I can pull up a chair and watch.
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Old 07-07-2007, 03:15 AM   #18
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Donand Bonnie,
You would have had a hot time watching me yesterday and the day before....
I got a call from our little store at the bottom of the hill we live on, just a mom and pop country store that has been there for as many years as the 'hood. Elmer and June are the owners, just country folk. He had the big walk in cooler go down, I went into the attic, it was 140 degrees up there....oh mama.
The fan in the roof was broke, the gable air venting screens were clogged and the condenser coils were clogged with dust and dirt. This caused the semi-hermetic compressor motor to overheat, it was cycling on the 'Klixon' temperature bi-metal protector. I cut the power off, put three bags of ice on it, rigged up a box fan to blow out the roof fan opening, and we replace the 'Klixon', Oh, I blew out the coils with a 5# bottle of CO2, the dust billowed out and completely enveloped the attic. Did I mention it was 140 degrees?
I then got a call yesterday, their A/C unit broke....so I had to replace the condensing unit outside, at least it was a little better, at 95 degrees. About 5 people told me; I thought you retired.. I told them, I thought so too.
No rest for the wicked
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Old 07-09-2007, 02:14 AM   #19
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Ozz,
After reading your reply, I am ready for a nap. Next time I'll sit across the street in the shade and sip iced tea.
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Old 07-09-2007, 09:41 AM   #20
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Man, I just got back from an old customer's place; 18 split systems, all clogged with Cottonwood seeds, had to pull the tops off three of them split the coils and pressure and chemical clean them, 7 of them on a flat roof, I'm so tired I can't see straight, about passed out on the roof. Back hurts, arms hurt, cut finger, I need my mommie. I need a nap too, think I'll take one..........
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