"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
06/05/2016 at 21:41 • Filed to: 1940s
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"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
06/05/2016 at 21:41 • Filed to: 1940s | 8
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The house next door is getting torn down tomorrow, it’s been empty and falling farther into disrepair for almost 10 years now I think. When the builder of the new development was here, we talked to him and got his permission to go in and see if there was anything worth saving. We were first greeted by this excellent Barnet ice box.
It’s almost fully intact, only missing one trim piece and an inconsequential hinge on the bottom. Older ice boxes seem to be worth a fair amount of money, 1940s ones like this, not so much. Still, it should make for an interesting outdoor drinks fridge. We’d seen a stove through the window that looked like a wood stove, that we were planning on putting in the yard as well, but that didn’t turn out as planned.
It’s an Enterprise Supreme, made in Sackville, New Brunswick. It’s also an oil stove, not wood. Not ver useful to us at all, and basically worthless compared to wood stoves or vintage electrics. No one has an oil tank handy to hook up to, and retrofitting it to behave as a barbecue wouldn’t work very well. So as cool as it looks, we aren’t gonna be the ones to haul this old thing out of the house.
Last but not least, the only heat source for this old house. a Duo-Therm oil furnace. We didn’t take it either, I don’t imagine it’s worth much in its condition, and I didn’t want to sort out disconnecting the oil line without spilling everywhere.
It was really interesting to see how small this house was, and how it was never updated. Weird to think that someone was still cooking and heating their house with oil as recent as 10 years ago. I mean the house I’m in is from 1945, but it hasn’t had an oil furnace for 35 years.
Down she goes tomorrow, and with it, all the large and lovely trees across the double lot. Too bad about the history, and some of our privacy. A big Japanese maple too, and a Rhodo, but that would’ve been impossible to transplant. On the bright side, drinks fridge for yard parties. We’ll see how good I can get it to look....
CB
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 21:43 |
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I’d say it’d still be good to get everything out, just to sell on the internet. Someone would probably pay a premium for it.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 21:44 |
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Oh fuck yeah. I would save, preserve, and use those bad boys every damn day.
LOREM IPSUM
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 21:49 |
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There are still an absolute fuckton of homes heated by oil, both environment and water. The northeast us, for one, has a lot of home heating oil customers.
First oil fired stove/oven I’ve ever seen though. I had no idea such an appliance ever existed, although if there are propane powered refrigerators then I guess literally anything is possible.
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gmctavish needs more space
> LOREM IPSUM
06/05/2016 at 21:58 |
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I had no idea. Everything is natural gas here now, I guess I assumed most other places were. The only exceptions I know of are older schools that still have steam heating, but the boilers run off natural gas too. I don't think they were common, I assume most when from wood to electric
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gmctavish needs more space
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
06/05/2016 at 21:59 |
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If we had the space for the oven and furnace, I totally would, unfortunately my girlfriend and I have a very full 1 bedroom suite...
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Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 22:02 |
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You’re doing God’s work, don’t beat yourself up.
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gmctavish needs more space
> CB
06/05/2016 at 22:02 |
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The furnace we still could...the oven it’s kinda too late for. It’s too heavy for our dolly, and all the rental places are closed now. I wound up doing some searching and the ice box seems to be the most valuable thing. The furnace I would take if I had a cabin that needed heat, but I don’t have a cabin. More time and people to help, and I’d get them out anyways, but I couldn't get any more people to come.
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gmctavish needs more space
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
06/05/2016 at 22:05 |
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I'm already lucky to have a girlfriend who not only tolerates my obsession with old things, she shares it. I just hope to one day have enough space to save more things
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Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 22:07 |
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My wife hates everything I like — she only cares that I’m passionate about something. Don’t let that lady go.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 22:09 |
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That fridge logo reminds me of this:
ranwhenparked
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 22:09 |
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We still do new construction with oil heat in some parts of the US. Not as common as it used to be, but it has its supporters.
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gmctavish needs more space
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
06/05/2016 at 22:43 |
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Well that shows that she cares about you, at least? Yeah, I have no plans to let her go
unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 23:05 |
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The ice box was worth it. Any updates on the dead e30 convertible?
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gmctavish needs more space
> unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
06/05/2016 at 23:10 |
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I agree. Nothing yet, it's waiting until my friend is done getting the 325i convertible ready for sale, and maybe his 540i too
Spridget
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 23:10 |
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You should at least pull them aside and put them on the curb- maybe then someone who wants them will find them.
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gmctavish needs more space
> Spridget
06/05/2016 at 23:31 |
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They’d just be grabbed by the scrap guys that go around :/ I also can't move them by myself. But if the place is still standing tomorrow, I'll try to figure something out
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Spridget
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 23:46 |
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Ah, you’re probably right. Maybe take them and a sell them to an antiques dealer for only a few dollars? At least then they’d go to a good home. I’d take them if I wasn't 3,000 miles away and had a use for them.
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gmctavish needs more space
> Spridget
06/05/2016 at 23:51 |
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Yeah possibly. Or even post them on Craigslist while they're still in there
facw
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 23:52 |
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It’s pretty common in the Northeast, though it’s been on its way out in general since the oil crisis in the ‘70s. Still conversion is often more money than it’s worth.
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Spridget
> gmctavish needs more space
06/05/2016 at 23:56 |
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That’s a great idea. It’s CL; someone will buy it.
Frenchlicker
> gmctavish needs more space
06/06/2016 at 00:24 |
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In some places oil is still somewhat common. My girlfriend currently lives in a house with oil heat. Due to the age of the house it has been deemed more economical.
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gmctavish needs more space
> facw
06/06/2016 at 00:29 |
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Oh wow, yeah I guess it would be pretty expensive to do a conversion
That's gonna leave a mark!
> gmctavish needs more space
06/06/2016 at 06:46 |
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Amazing how everything build back that then seems to have been designed to survive a nuclear blast. There is a point of over-engineering.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> gmctavish needs more space
06/06/2016 at 09:33 |
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There are people who still have oil furnaces. My wife and I looked at a house last year that still had an oil tank and an oil furnace, it was a modern oil furnace though, maybe 10 years old at most if I had to guess.
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gmctavish needs more space
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
06/06/2016 at 10:06 |
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Oh I imagine that would be a bit more efficient than the one I found haha
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gmctavish needs more space
> That's gonna leave a mark!
06/06/2016 at 10:07 |
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It’s so satisfying to handle anything built that well, it just makes modern appliances feel super disposable