<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Getting closer Phil..<div>Now with Steve's idea, maybe a spring wound up coo koo clock maybe ?? </div><div><i>en serio;</i> </div><div>Something is needed to agitate the feed tube periodically eh ? </div><div>Richard </div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 26, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Phil Hughes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Many years ago, when I was fighting with Thurston County Washington over the requirement that in order to build there you had to be able to show that the house could maintain 72F for 24 hours with no one there (only one of many stupid requirements that eventually inspired me to move on) I found a pellet stove with a wind-up feed mechanism that claimed to be able to run for 24 hours with no power/human intervention. No clue who was the manufacturer (this was 1978) but the technology clearly existed.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Steve Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@thetaylorfamily.org.uk" target="_blank">steve@thetaylorfamily.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 26 October 2012 16:34, Richard Stanley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rstanley@legacyfound.org" target="_blank">rstanley@legacyfound.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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How do they manage this with bird feeders etc.?<br>
<span></span></blockquote></div><div><br>They use birds. Self powered, Intelligent pellet removal tools.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Steve<br></font></span></div></div>
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