Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MechanicMatt]

Those onions are from the farm she was harvested from…

Farmers hook me up with a couple bags every year for helping keep the pest population in check

 

[JimR]

Turkeys deer or apples ?

Edit : chipper1 beat me to it

Turkeys

On another note my dump cart got an overhaul this week. I replaced all the rotted plywood with new solid Redwood stained exterior plywood. It sure looks great now compared to before.

 

[MustangMike]

I hunt for deer every year, and hopefully get one or two, but not always.

I butcher it myself, make as many steaks from it as possible, and make chunks out of the rest.

My wife's parents were very good friends with a couple that owned a well-known local steakhouse. (for those who are local, Parise Steakhouse in Thornwood). They gave my wife a marinate recipe for the venison. My venison is never tough or gamy.

Venison is leaner than chicken or beef and has more B vitamins and Omega 3. I'll take it any day of the week. Cook it rare and it is delicious and very healthy.

I usually like grilling it over some Black Cherry but also have some Black Birch in this fire.

 

[MustangMike]

When my dad and I go out hunting, it's too easy. We don't even shoot anything anymore. We just enjoy the wildlife now.

If the game is that plentiful, why would you bother to raise cattle??? Sounds like Mother Nature would do it for you!

 

[Lee192233]

Yeah, I have 75,000 acres and that is considered small in Wyoming.

When my dad and I go out hunting, it's too easy. We don't even shoot anything anymore. We just enjoy the wildlife now.

It's a huge departure from when I was young and took my little 4wheeler out with my .22 and shot anything that moved. I joke with my dad that I had my hunting bug out of me by the age of 18.

Do you need an accountant, mechanic and 3 day laborers? My family could fill all those roles!

 

[chipper1]

Turkeys

On another note my dump cart got an overhaul this week. I replaced all the rotted plywood with new solid Redwood stained exterior plywood. It sure looks great now compared to before.

That turned out really nice.
You can use it for firewood and deer, maybe even turkeys and apples too lol.
I did some mods on my 14' trailer earlier this week .

Also finally found some metal insulated panels to build my bay door with. Sure hope 4" of insulation is enough lol. Maybe I can have a usable door by next month, trying to stay focused on the ceiling and then the south wall where it meets the ceiling (so I can finish that portion of the ceiling, then the west wall between the main bay and the lean-to (yes, I said it again ). Working around the lift is gonna be fun, I was gonna ask my buddy who helped me set it up if he'll help me take it down for a day .

 

[snobdds]

If the game is that plentiful, why would you bother to raise cattle??? Sounds like Mother Nature would do it for you!

I have too much grass and if I don't use it, it turns to weeds. My grandfather was the rancher, I make my money from other things. I was never into being a cowboy and neither was my father. Now my neighbor is a real cowboy and he runs about 30k head on my land in the summer. Him and my grandfather were good friends so I just let him use the grass for free as a thank you for helping my grandfather in his later years.

It goes on for miles and miles...

 

[snobdds]

If we weren’t the same age, I’d ask you to adopt me

Was in Wyoming once, 1997 summertime, lived out of my pack for a week backpacking

Have wanted to go back since!

Beautiful country and GREAT fishing!!

My sister moved up to the Rochester area in nothern NY. It was my first time being there this past memorial day. I was in utter shock about how beautiful it was there. Her inlaws have a lake house on one of the finger lakes, lake chucka, and it was great. The thing that I was astonished by was the amount of houses on that lake. There was not a piece of lake front property that did not have a house on it. It was wild to me, considering my lake has nothing on it, expect a little dock we use to take out a little boat.

But man, upstate NY was great.

 

[chipper1]

I have too much grass and if I don't use it, it turns to weeds. My grandfather was the rancher, I make my money from other things. I was never into being a cowboy and neither was my father. Now my neighbor is a real cowboy and he runs about 30k head on my land in the summer. Him and my grandfather were good friends so I just let him use the grass for free as a thank you for helping my grandfather in his later years.

It goes on for miles and miles...

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Absolutely beautiful.
Never been out to that part of the country, or the far NE, but seen most the rest. Wouldn't mind making it up there this summer or next, the kids are getting older and it's a lot of fun going on trips with them. BIL is in Colorado so that was an option for last summer, but we opted for the hills of TN instead as it was a bit closer.
I like your avatar .

 

[SS396driver]

Turkeys

On another note my dump cart got an overhaul this week. I replaced all the rotted plywood with new solid Redwood stained exterior plywood. It sure looks great now compared to before.

Have several Turkeys in the freezer now . Going to get one out and into the fridge to thaw for thanksgiving. I’ll do a farm turkey too not everyone likes wild turkey .

 

[snobdds]

Absolutely beautiful.
Never been out to that part of the country, or the far NE, but seen most the rest. Wouldn't mind making it up there this summer or next, the kids are getting older and it's a lot of fun going on trips with them. BIL is in Colorado so that was an option for last summer, but we opted for the hills of TN instead as it was a bit closer.
I like your avatar .

My good friend lives in Steamboat CO and was sponsered by a snowboard company called Libtech. They make snowboards, so he painted his "log truck" with their name.

I **** you not, he would go out to where they were logging and would have them put a log on top of his car, as you can see in the picture. We would then cut it up for his firewood in the winter. In the rear seat is an old Stihl 041. He was a bit crazy.

 

[GrizG]

A very rare occurrence is happening…
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[SS396driver]

A very rare occurrence is happening…
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It’s been nice listening to the rain last night and this morning

 

[FXJenkins]

Always reminds me of Ricardo

Thats awesome, jaguar take some notes..

 

[GrizG]

It’s been nice listening to the rain last night and this morning

It is!

 

[MechanicMatt]

My sister moved up to the Rochester area in nothern NY. It was my first time being there this past memorial day. I was in utter shock about how beautiful it was there. Her inlaws have a lake house on one of the finger lakes, lake chucka, and it was great. The thing that I was astonished by was the amount of houses on that lake. There was not a piece of lake front property that did not have a house on it. It was wild to me, considering my lake has nothing on it, expect a little dock we use to take out a little boat.

But man, upstate NY was great.

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Upstate is beautiful, I live in the Hudson valley which is equally a beautiful. Just don’t really care for my state’s politics, but we don’t discuss those in this thread.

 

[FXJenkins]

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If we weren't the same age I'd ask you to adopt me... borrowed that one.

 

[djg james]

Have several Turkeys in the freezer now . Going to get one out and into the fridge to thaw for thanksgiving. I’ll do a farm turkey too not everyone likes wild turkey .

You cook the whole WILD turkey? Now, I keep only the breasts. Legs are tough and inedible.

 

[BeatCJ]

snip... Just don’t really care for my state’s politics, but we don’t discuss those in this thread.

I think that's true for many of us. Our (sub-)urbanized areas with high population (and vote) densities don't believe the same as much of (the majority of?) the people living in the land mass of the country. I was amazed how granular the vote counts were throughout the entire country.

 

[MustangMike]

I have too much grass and if I don't use it, it turns to weeds. My grandfather was the rancher, I make my money from other things. I was never into being a cowboy and neither was my father. Now my neighbor is a real cowboy and he runs about 30k head on my land in the summer. Him and my grandfather were good friends so I just let him use the grass for free as a thank you for helping my grandfather in his later years.

It goes on for miles and miles...

Hope you appreciate what you have. Parts of upstate NY are still beautiful, but downstate NY farms and open space (not gov owned) have all but disappeared, and the public hiking trails remind you of folks getting online to get on the subway. Trains bring them up from NYC on the weekends.

I'm fortunate to have my 50 acres in the Catskills (I paid only $300/acre in 1985). It was cheap because it is off the grid. You are not allowed to live there year-round. Land in NY is very expensive, and there are no spreads like yours. Unless it is cleared fields, we don't have endless prairie land like you do, it is pretty much all heavily wooded.

Hundred-acre horse farms down here go for millions of dollars, and the taxes are more than most ordinary folks earn in a year. It seems the more folks want to move out of NYC (often with very deep pockets) the more expensive everything gets. I remember driving through the Bronx with my father and he would say "This used to be all farms". Now you can go several counties above NYC and say the same thing. The largest remaining farms have either been purchased by the government or by not-for-profit entities.

Another problem, even though it is illegal, baiting is widespread and diminishes your hunting opportunities. I often see nice deer in Sept on the trial cams, and they all but disappear after bow season opens in Oct.

And don't get me started on all the illegals ... they don't even try to enforce the hunting and fishing regulations on them. It is a sad state of affairs!