Heating Pictures from My Summer Trip to Bavaria - mad dog

Cosmo_3

I think the child-like response you just gave is a good indicator of your mental capacity, as well as you lack of maturity. It is really a shame people like you are even allowed here, but you go right ahead and keep showing us your true colors.

Petey, aka whoever you are- your an idiot.

No need for me to go any further....

Cosmo

Mad Dog_2

I took pics of everything

I have many more, but I will start to put them up. They seem to think nothing of doing a little welding on the black pipe - looked like 1". lots of guages, balancing valves....Average homes have either Viessman or Buderus.. My relatives and houses I went to. They all had Roth tanks - minimum of 2 most had three ganged up with high water(oil) proof containment "ponds." Lots of stainless steel domestic piping. Kerme brand panel rads. Atleast 60-70% of the homes - even in the countryside have solar panels for Thermal and PV. More to follow. This was the old homestead that my dear Mother-in-law, Monika (nee Stockbaeur...is that German enough for ya?)was born in. It is in the heart of the Bayerische Wald (Bavarian Woods). The Mechanical room was the old attached barn where the Pigs and cow lived. Mad Dog

Robert O'Brien

Great pics!

I love that press fitting stainless!

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Mad Dog_2

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That's Cousin, Wicke, he is an engineer for BMW. He has all Buderus integrated with Solar. They waste nothing over there all non-meat table scraps go to the bunnies whcih we ate, the rest to the hogs. Everyone - even in the burbs have vegetable gardens, rabbits (hossin)a hog or two. Very small fridges too...my beer fridge is bigger. We really loved it over there. Never left Bavaria and left was fine with us. Mad Dog

Steamhead (in transit)

Is that Hemp

on the threaded connections? I am given to understand that at least one of the set of male-female fittings are not tapered, hence the use of hemp to help seal...or at least wick away the visible liquid...

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Derheatmeister

Eye Candy

Lots of Eye Candy mechanical rooms look like this over there!( We can eating sie of die floor in die Heizungsraum)That's Germenglish.

I my trade as an Heattech/pipefitter we used to even fill the black pipe with sand,heat it with the torch and bend our own 90.yes and then weld it and use hemp everywhere.(no leaks )

Then we had Mannesmann black pressable fittings which after 30 years are still good!

Still waiting for more goodies from the Heimart.(Wilo finally made it here)

Have not been back in years because i have my own business here now, maybe the next Ish.

Bayern (Bavaria) is one of my favorites! Good houses,bier,cars,people and landscapes,I've hiked the Bayerischer Wald( Bavarian forest) with the boy scouts when i was in my teens and loved it.

Great that you had such a nice time!Richard from Heatmeister.

ScottMP

Looks like

you had a great time Dog.

Lemme see, Rabbit and cold German beer ... mmmmmmmm,
I'm drooling on my keyboard.

I beat you got the same looks I got when I askd the Guard at the castle if I could see the basement. I wanted to see th heating system.

Is that so Wrrrooonnng.

Hey Matt, is'nt that a great feeling when the custom agent says " Welcome back the United States " !

Scott



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Rollie Peck_3

Life \"over there\"

Hi Mad Dog:

I really enjoyed hearing about life in Bavaria and seeing your pictures.
Did you see a lot of: McMansions, gas guzzeling SUV's,
floatboats, speedboats, decked out Big Dually pickups,
granite countertops, big yards, riding lawn mowers and
similar items that so many Americans spend a lot of money
on?

Rollie Peck

Homeowner

Unknown

Nice,,,

I love bier! I had an EBAY customer send me one once as a thank you. Yup a big bottle of bier came in the mail for me all the way from Germany and it was goood!

The castle basement thing reminds me of how I just recently went to Bennett Studios in Englewood, NJ and met Dae, Tony's son. Brand new state of the art studio with a $1,000,000 worth of recording equipment and I'm checking out the HVAC system and picking his brain on it. LOL,,,

It DID give me some ideas for the one I'm going to do here shortly so I did have an alterior motive.

Mad Dog_2

Nope......

But there is still no place like the USA. I found the majority of volk I came across (aside from relatives and friends)somewhat pleasant to cool. They also seem to be very ridgid and are overly concerned about "the man." For example, we ran over a hare at night and they were all worried about what the burgermeister might do. The food, bier, scenery (Bavaria is The Catskills with most of the hills and mountains cleared of trees), and heating systems are top notch, but we have that here too. I'll take my freedoms and wild American ways anyday. That being said, I look foward to going back in a few years, maybe catch ISH too. Mad Dog

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Mad Dog_2

Yes, we did a lot of Horse riding

and Schwummel picking in the Bayerischer Wald...lots of cool war monuments and old bunkers in the middle of the woods. Loved the churches. It was a little eery seeing Their German cousins who died in the Wars who may have met my American relatives on the Battlefields of Europe. Mad Dog

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Mad Dog_2

Yes it is Scott

Shucks.....I don't think I'd ever move out of NYS...a New Yorker is a New Yorker. What a time though...... Mad Dog

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Unknown

"But there is still no place like the USA"

Amen brother!

Robert O'Brien

Matt

is that a low nox burner on the Vitola?

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Derheatmeister

What is Schwummel? Richard

Mad Dog_2

Bavarian for...................................

Mushroom. Much like Texas was a soveriegn-country-of-sorts, pre 1871, Germany was a loose coalition of Teutonic states with their own dialects, customs, food, et al. High German, Low German, and alot in between. Mad Dog

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Cosmo_3

my desk is all wet

uncontrolled drooling......

We are just realizing that we too one day soon will have to live as efficiently as Europe is forced to.

Hopefully we get a few more years of the energy freedom I grew up in!!!

Thanks for sharing the pics Mad Dog

cosmo