Had a little surf and turf tonight. Venison backstrap from our property and walleye from Lake Erie. Yum! 
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Nope, just some bulk 55g PMC .233 SP so I can use for hunting. These rounds come around $0.49 if I recall. I feel better about shooting steel targets with it also. The stuff is rated at 3200 FPS so it's coming in pretty hot and holds out pretty flat.
I save my brass so maybe one day I will do some reloading.
The first tanneright was placed a but low so I got a longer stick and did it a second time.
I'm thinking maybe I should cut out a pocket about chest high, stick the tanneright in the pocket, then try. These Ash trees are getting scarry around here.
When I put the fireplace in in the 80s, the rack was one of those cheap ones. Burned through in a couple of years. Dad welded me one out of 1-1/4" rebar I had. It was heavy but it lasted for many years. It finally burned through so I'm making a new one. Didn't have enough of the large rebar so I switched to 2"x2" x1/4" angle iron.
The uprights are 3/4" rebar and the middle two are 8" long. Same height as my previous one. May shorten a little. I may weld some large nuts on the bottom side of the angle iron to act as feet. The vertical pipe on the left will be for a removeable "cooking hook" so I can use my new cast iron Dutch oven in the winter. At the points where the rebar deck meets the angle iron, the angle iron will be notched a little to make welding easier.
This is just dry fitted. Do you see anything I should be concerned about? Criticism welcomed.
The uprights are 3/4" rebar and the middle two are 8" long. Same height as my previous one. May shorten a little. I may weld some large nuts on the bottom side of the angle iron to act as feet. The vertical pipe on the left will be for a removeable "cooking hook" so I can use my new cast iron Dutch oven in the winter. At the points where the rebar deck meets the angle iron, the angle iron will be notched a little to make welding easier.
This is just dry fitted. Do you see anything I should be concerned about? Criticism welcomed.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Florida is too south for me
I am thinking, NC-Tennessee-Kentucky area.
Maybe Arkansas and Missouri too
I am thinking, NC-Tennessee-Kentucky area.
Maybe Arkansas and Missouri too
If you want to go, why wait? They have jobs down there as well.
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Start researching what states will tax your investments and pension if you have one when leaving PA.
I was talking to a good friend this weekend about the tax hit he’ll take to his FireFighters pension when he moves from PA and retires to Delaware…..
Start researching what states will tax your investments and pension if you have one when leaving PA.
I was talking to a good friend this weekend about the tax hit he’ll take to his FireFighters pension when he moves from PA and retires to Delaware…..
Taxes will be a lot cheaper than NY.
Might be tough to shovel ash out of there.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Family, the job I have now….
The pay is too much to walk away from. Easily paying for my kids college
But yeah, I scour Zillow Dailey daydreaming
I always felt that large spacing on the bottom allowed too many coals to fall through and into the ashes so they don't burn completely. More/tighter spacing or even an expanded metal screen on top may improve that. A thin screen would need to be replaced more often for sure. And feet tall enough to get the ash shovel under it as mentioned. If it's similar to what you had and you liked it, then go for it.
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