Hopefully you can, or have an alternative heat source upgrade to heat your place in the future. Those old base board heaters will tear you up on cost. I put an oil furnace in our old home, and installed a nice wood stove too. The wood stove will heat the whole house pretty cost effectively, and is damn nice when the power goes out. We used to rarely use the oil furnace, but then i got tired of cutting so much firewood, and we use the furnace a lot more now. i used to run a woodstove in my shop too, but upgraded that to a propane Big Max furnace. its a bit expensive in winter to keep it 60-65 degrees out here, but a lot nicer than burning 4 cords of wood each year out here.

How much land came with the place?

What a treat watching Steve's video ... I hunted Steve's antelope concession on the Smith Sheep Ranch in Wyoming back in the 80's several times. That was a lot of fun and we got to know Steve pretty well. Very fun guy and a great sense of humor. And .... he could shoot a bow !!    Being from Washington I shot several times with him at some of our 3D shoots around the state. I shot my best mule deer with one of his 52" Cascade Magnum bows on a hunt in Idaho. 
 

I have an old Martin Archery J8 jig that I would like to switch over to 4 fletch. I removed the screw that holds the knob in place and changed out the plates, but it doesn't seem to click into position like the 3 fletch set up.
Does anyone have one of these? I must have set it up wrong.
Dave.

About as good as it gets,I also enjoy South Cox chasing mule deer in high country

The house has 200 amps. We have all electric baseboard heaters, so the panel is full. There's stuff marked on it that doesn't even exist here now. I'll have my buddy figure out what there is, and I'll write it all down. I did buy a tracer that you plug into an outlet and run a probe along the panel to see which breaker it uses, but I'll only use it where I'm comfortable.
It started raining again. It's coming down like Niagara Falls with some thunder. The snow is steaming like a volcano.
I walked out to the back this morning. Even after the rain, the snow is still knee deep.

Quote from: wood carver 2 on Today at 08:30:33 AMThe snow is melting now, we had a lot of rain last night and more to come. I'll be able to see exactly what I have there. There's a 100 amp panel in the shop, but I'm not sure where power is coming from. The house panel is completely full and not well marked, so we will have to trace back to find out where it's hooked up.
I know only enough about electrical work to get myself into trouble, so I'm going to wait for my buddy. He's on a job right now and he'll be done in a few weeks.
I think that I'll take advantage of the thaw and explore the property today before it rains again.
Dave.

Yup.... If you are not trained in electrical work, it's best to get someone who has experience to check it out and give recommendations. I was a general contractor for many years, and did a ton of remodeling over the years. I had a close friend that was a licensed electrician doing 90% of my jobs, and when things got slow I used to work with him from time to time. We replaced a few old 100 amp services together and upgraded them to 200 amp panels over the years. The first thing that has to happen is a new 200 amp meter main has to be installed / replaced on the exterior of the building. But... there are different types of meter mains too. When I upgrade ours to 200 amps in the house, I consulted with my buddy and told him what I had in mind before purchasing anything.  I had a permit pulled to do the work, and had it inspected before the power company hooked it back up. I was able to pull the meter myself to kill the power to the house and replace the old 100 amp panel, but I had the power company disconnect the line to the meter base before I swapped that out.

Do you already have a 200 amp panel in the house?

Here ya go.

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Quote from: fisherick on March 05, 2026, 08:26:02 AMI searched Big Jims website and Stick bow supplies website and could not find any listing for Black Hunter bows.

He was still selling them last year out of his booth at the Tennessee Classic.  Maybe he stopped carrying them, I don't know.

It's a fair bet that the china tariffs are the cause.

Quote from: fisherick on March 05, 2026, 08:26:02 AMI searched Big Jims website and Stick bow supplies website and could not find any listing for Black Hunter bows.

He was still selling them last year out of his booth at the Tennessee Classic.  Maybe he stopped carrying them, I don't know.

The snow is melting now, we had a lot of rain last night and more to come. I'll be able to see exactly what I have there. There's a 100 amp panel in the shop, but I'm not sure where power is coming from. The house panel is completely full and not well marked, so we will have to trace back to find out where it's hooked up.
I know only enough about electrical work to get myself into trouble, so I'm going to wait for my buddy. He's on a job right now and he'll be done in a few weeks.
I think that I'll take advantage of the thaw and explore the property today before it rains again.
Dave.