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Lanx said:

what really? jesus

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Its a big liability for them supposedly.

They wouldn't transport any of my booze either because you need an interstate license to transport booze if youre a shipper or some bullshit.

No chemical transport because its hazardous, so no cleaning supplies, etc. Had to give qll that shit away to friends and neighbors in Cali

Hateyou said:

In Kentucky? Take a long car ride through country roads and find someone out there who sells it by the rick. It’s generally by far the cheapest way to get it, cause it’s just some rural neighbor.

Other than that, gas stations. There may be some big box store or local mulch place that sells it but I don’t know who. Going that way you’re going to pay 3-4x as much per rick than buying from a local guy. If your fairly rural you could ask around, someone may know a guy kind of thing.

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Yeah that or any of the homemade signs nailed to trees and fence posts. Call the number. Mostly around here within reason they'll deliver it too if you don't have a trailer. I will say it is hit or miss on whether it is dried or not. Last year someone claimed theirs was and delivered it and we bitched and they took off $$$. Get you a good place to store it so it isn't sitting out in the open.

Fucker said:

Hardwood firewood - general for sale - by owner

We currently have: Ash, locust, Maple, and oak. we have seasoned and unseasoned wood that would be ready to burn now or next winter. Get your wood early before you need it and you won’t have to...

louisville.craigslist.org

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thats like 2 counties over

anyways i found a guy

Lanx said:

what is a "rick"? that whole trolly?

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yeah

Hateyou said:

That looks like two ricks. A rick is a stack of wood where the face is 4x8. A lot of ricks is a cord, I forget how many.

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A cord just defines depth whereas a rick has an "assumed" depth of like 16" or whatever, can't remember.

BrutulTM said:

Could be that the tester is just a POS. I usually test the GFI outlets for our cattle water tank heaters by plugging an extension cord into them and then dipping the other end in the tank. Works like a charm.

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I bought my buddy a GFI surge protector thing because he was so wild with his use of extension cords around huge containers of water (he did a lot of home brewing). He bitched and moaned and said I wasted my money and that I worry too much blah blah blah. One day he and another guy were brewing and the mixer or shop vac or whatever they were using suddenly cut off and stopped working and they couldn’t figure out why. Turns out their extension cord fell off whatever they had it suspended on (to keep it off the ground) and into the puddle of water they were standing in while they were diagnosing the problem.

I only know this story because he reluctantly told me about it a few days after it happened. He sheepishly thanked me for getting that GFI surge protector. I had enough willpower to not say I told you so but not enough willpower to keep a straight face.

Lanx said:

ok, so how does this work,

i've ignored my basement kitchen gfci for years, it never worked (most likely they wired it wrong)

i finally sat down and saw a youtube on how to wire w/ line and load, etc.

i actually wired it correct now, have power to the gfci, and the 2 outlets connected to load,

i even tested it with this

and i get 2 ok lights for those outlets, however the top gfci won't light up (but theres power coming in, i tested with that electric pen) and the bottom lights up fine.

however if i "wiggle" the tester, (for the top) it'll light up...

well i happen to have a spare gfci and i hook that up... same thing, wth.

so i just goto menards and see what my options are, and i buy a 20amp gfci, and lord have mercy it works 100%, i have no idea why the 20amp vs. the 15amp (sometimes works) makes a difference.

Erronius ?

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First thing that's weird is usually they're either both hot, or both not. They're fed from the same place.

Second thing that was weird was two GFCIs in a row. Was the 'spare' a used one? I'm guessing it was, and just had the same random issue.

If you had no lights...then wiggled it and it worked...the issue was probably the top 'narrow' prong.

When you said that you could wiggle the top, and get a connection...my guess is that the 'clip' that the outlet prong mates to, was bent.

Sometimes I've wondered if people are too rough plugging stuff in, and yanking the cords out, or if they wiggle the plugs left to right a lot when pulling them out. Then they end up bending the internals out of wack.

Sometimes you can bend the prong on a plug left or right to make better contact with a loose outlet, but I don't know how comfortable I am with doing that. Then you're just inviting a situation where you don't really have good contact, and that's when bad things tend to happen (especially under a heavy load). The GFCI won't care if it has a loose connection, it only cares when current bleeds off somewhere and there's an imbalance between hot and neutral current.

What you did is probably the best fix. Throw the first two away, and replace. You can't really get inside a device to fix it if those fuckers get bent open and plugs don't stab/stick into the device correctly anymore. If you ever have a receptacle that's 'loose' but you can finagle it into working...you should probably just replace it.