Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MechanicMatt]

I’ll be chasing them again tomorrow morning

Gonna hit my xbow spot behind my house. I’ve laid off that spot for a few weeks, maybe the 9pt I have on camera will show up. Even though it’s rifle season, it’s a little to “urban” for me to be using a rifle on a Sunday morning

 

[benz66]

If you dry brine the turkey it will come out well. The leg will always be a little tough but the thighs come out fairly tender and moist

A guy I used to let hunt on our land gave me 2 turkey legs. I soaked them in Morton's cure for a week or so. Then smoked them on the weber. best turkey I ever had. If y'all were closer, I'd take all your turkey legs. It takes a while to eat a turkey leg, but they are tasty when smoked.

 

[benz66]

One of my friends works in a shop that does mostly mostly light/medium duty trucks and vans, municipal, police, fire, ems, and refuse. He's said over the past few years there has been a big swing away from the diesels back to gas engines. Cheaper to work on, usually pretty reliable for the length of time they are kept. Said the 8.1L chevy engine and the Ford 7.3L has basically become a mainstay for the truck and van based chassis they work on. Said one of the municipal refuse companies has nearly completely switched to natural gas engine to get away from the emission/ after treatment problems they have with the diesels. It's not so far to believe school busses wouldn't follow suite, makes perfect sense these days.

Diesels now are electronic toys. Same as the gassers, but more expensive. Not like the old days with reliable mechanical fuel injection. When the smoke comes out, it is dead.

There are several reasons tractors like IH 1066 through 1486 are popular, along with 4020 through 4430 or so JDs. Mechanical fuel injection is one reason.

 

[Billhook]

That tree has gut rot.

I was gutted when I saw it!

 

[FXJenkins]

No idea why I didn’t buy this fiskars years ago, Awesome firewood tool.

Yup. I’ve that one, the logrite backsaver, and a short one handed version. Love those hookaroons.