Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[SS396driver]

1st round of chicken just about done

 

[Lee192233]

1st round of chicken just about done View attachment 1209809

Be there in ten! Man, that looks delicious!

 

[svk]

Had some really nice northern lights last night. Perhaps the best I’ve ever seen.

These are unedited time lapse images. If I touch them up, they really would’ve looked like something.

I should’ve walked out to the point and got a full pano of the north sky.

 

[djg james]

Had some really nice northern lights last night. Perhaps the best I’ve ever seen.

These are unedited time lapse images. If I touch them up, they really would’ve looked like something.

I should’ve walked out to the point and got a full pano of the north sky.

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Exposure data?

 

[SS396driver]

Just wrapped the pork only 6-7 hours to go on it

 

[farmer steve]

Two smokers going one has pork shoulder the other chicken quarters 30 lbs View attachment 1209781View attachment 1209782

I would have thought you'd have one of these custom smokers Mark.

 

[SS396driver]

I would have thought you'd have one of these custom smokers Mark.
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That’s a cold smoker . I made a similar unit a while ago to smoke cheese . But I had the pipe underground to cool the smoke . My grandfather(wife’s side) made one using a cistern for the fire pit below ground and 25-30 feet of steel culvert pipe to the smoke house . Made the best kielbasa you ever had . They lived just outside of Wilkes-Barre Pa

 

[SS396driver]

From start to finish 8 hours the pork shoulder wasn’t that big about 12 lbs

 

[sean donato]

That's a fact! If anything gets done it's better than nothing. LOL

The attached garage is further along than my barn to be sure. I was supposed to have $50k in equity for barn building from selling the old house when we bought this place. But... then the great recession hit. The day we listed the old house was the day the stock market crashed. And then for good measure it crashed again the next day. So we ended up with two houses for almost three years (not what it's cracked up to be). Finally sold it at basically a break even price. So now the 38x80 barn structure is built, but I'm still living with a dirt floor and no electric service. Like I think you've said before, first world problems, right?

that sucks, with your house. I don't wish that predicament on anyone.
First world problems, yeah I look at it like this. Even working in stone I had it a lot better then some, the shop makes it a lot better then most. Everything else is just me whining lol.

 

[H-Ranch]

that sucks, with your house. I don't wish that predicament on anyone.

It was a matter of good/bad timing. We couldn't have bought this house without it being a foreclosure (before the official foreclosure crisis started). But I'm not gonna lie, it did suck at the time and brought a lot of stress on the wife and I both. We got through it and would do it all over again. And we ended up with our dream house... so what if the barn timing, and some other sacrifices, didn't align with our desired calendar. I couldn't be happier. My daughter commented a couple months ago about getting my things out when I move houses and I told her, "Honey, where I'm going to when I leave here, I won't need any of my stuff."

 

[MustangMike]

Had the last of the venison backstrap for dinner tonight, it was from the doe and was great as usual.

I'll be bringing the remaining rump and shoulder steaks up to the cabin over the WE to feed the 5 of us.

We still have a good # of bags of chunks left, we usually cook them inside when it is colder out.

Two deer seems like it was a good amount for the wife and me, hope I can be fortunate enough to get 2 more this year.

 

[GrizG]

It was a matter of good/bad timing. We couldn't have bought this house without it being a foreclosure (before the official foreclosure crisis started). But I'm not gonna lie, it did suck at the time and brought a lot of stress on the wife and I both. We got through it and would do it all over again. And we ended up with our dream house... so what if the barn timing, and some other sacrifices, didn't align with our desired calendar. I couldn't be happier. My daughter commented a couple months ago about getting my things out when I move houses and I told her, "Honey, where I'm going to when I leave here, I won't need any of my stuff."

Sometimes betting on oneself is the best bet. Who else will work so hard to make it work?!

 

[djg james]

I would have thought you'd have one of these custom smokers Mark.
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Is that a real setup? Never seen one like that before. I was thinking of building something like that. Cutting the top out of a propane tank, placing it under the grill and ducting it to the bottom.

 

[djg james]

That’s a cold smoker . I made a similar unit a while ago to smoke cheese . But I had the pipe underground to cool the smoke . My grandfather(wife’s side) made one using a cistern for the fire pit below ground and 25-30 feet of steel culvert pipe to the smoke house . Made the best kielbasa you ever had . They lived just outside of Wilkes-Barre Pa

How hot can you get with a cold smoker?

 

[SS396driver]

How hot can you get with a cold smoker?

Not sure all I know is cheese don’t take to kindly to heat .

 

[Lee192233]

That’s a cold smoker . I made a similar unit a while ago to smoke cheese . But I had the pipe underground to cool the smoke . My grandfather(wife’s side) made one using a cistern for the fire pit below ground and 25-30 feet of steel culvert pipe to the smoke house . Made the best kielbasa you ever had . They lived just outside of Wilkes-Barre Pa

Reminds me of my Grandpa's setup. He cold smoked summer sausage every spring. Their smokehouse was 10'×10'ish and had a concrete floor. The sausages were hung around the outside and he had a small, smoky fire in the middle. The smoke would billow out of the siding and vents in the gables. He'd smoke the sausage for days. Ahh...good memories.
Unfortunately my uncle threw the recipe away. It's a flavor that's hard to match. I did find a meat market that's close but the sausage is $16.00 a pound. Most meat markets hot smoke their sausage because it's safer and easier. Hopefully I'll have enough time to try making it myself someday.

 

[GrizG]

Here’s a chain set up technique that I couldn’t use but perhaps somebody here might find it useful?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8RE9jRN/

 

[djg james]

Lowest price I've seen on a X27 for anyone who needs one:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004M3BAQ...MZTV9KQJ&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it

 

[MustangMike]

Here’s a chain set up technique that I couldn’t use but perhaps somebody here might find it useful?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8RE9jRN/

Isn't that for ported 880s with full skip???

 

[svk]

Exposure data?

10 second time lapse on iphone 15. I know nothing beyond that.