Beautiful weather and a three day weekend!
Had my 21-year high school reunion Friday night so we stayed the night at my parents. That gave me a late start Saturday, but I did manage to get a lot of the wiring done. I got my new breaker box mounted and the feed wires connected and got the lights wired. Like I said I would do, I put outlets on the ceiling to plug the lights in to. That was all the daylight I had.
Today I wired as many outlets as I could before I ran out of wire. Then I tied the electrical in to the breaker box on my utility pole. That pole has the meter and under that is a big breaker box and from there it feeds the house and the AC unit on different circuits. I put in a double 50amp breaker in that box for the shop.
Also as I mentioned (I think in the first post of this thread) I'm using the breaker as the light switch. I was concerned about doing that after JPG's warning. But I had also asked what the SWD stamped on my breakers meant. I've since learned that means the breaker is rated for switching duty, so I stuck with my plan.
Then I got everything cleaned up again and almost got everything moved from the 8"x10" storage shed to the shop. I'm off tomorrow and will finish moving things over, finalize some layout ideas, and hopefully start building some shelves and getting things arranged.
I brought back this old wood burning stove from my dad's. I was thinking I might use it to get through this winter, but at this point I'm no sure it will be necessary. It just hasn't been cold enough. But I think I might do a full restoration on it before I give it back to him. He might could use it in one of his shop extensions.
I have a lot of sentimental value in this stove. Dad got it when I was a kid (and it was old then) to heat our house. We were quite poor, living in a little trailer house. Someone we went to church with gave it to my dad. I helped Dad build a brick hearth to place it on. Then I spent many Saturdays out with dad cutting trees and chopping wood for the winter. And many cold winter nights enjoying the results of that hard work.
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