Furnace Adventures

A couple of years ago, our oil burner died. Most people, faced with this situation would have paid the gas company to lay another hundred twenty feet of gas line and switch to gas, but we decided to stick with fuel oil. Our furnace man convinced us to buy a Thermopride furnace (he said it was the only kind he would install), made right down in Indiana, life-time warranty on the fire box. All in all, we got us a solid piece of American machinery. And it even looks good, a porcelain enamel surface in a mauve color.

http://www.thermopride.com/

So when we saw an exact copy of our $2000 furnace at the Re-Store second hand building supply store for $100, we couldn't resist buying it, so Chris could heat his pole barn, to more comfortably work on my car. Some guys at the Re-Store helped us load it in the truck, but Chris unloaded it all by himself. Here is a picture of him doing it with the use of his Ford 8N.

Well, it turned out that was the easy part, getting the furnace. Now he needed an oil tank. His friend Jonas, who lives downtown, has been wanting to get an old 275-gallon tank out of his basement for years, and so Chris spent a good part of a day extracting this steel tank from Jonas's basement, again, by himself (though I helped load it on the truck.) He got this all the way home before realizing the bottom of the tank was covered with pinhole leaks.

So now my brother George gave Chris another 275-gallon tank, the better of the two he had lying in his side yard. We got it on the truck and home before Chris discovered pin hole leaks around the intake valve. Shoot. Does anybody have a mint condition oil tank (without leaks) to donate? I'll help put it on the truck.