WoodAbuser
aka WoodchuckAbuser
Running your flamethrower. I guess that's one way to clean your chimney.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Happy Thanksgiving Charlie Brown!
Yep! Even though the kids are older now, we still watch the show and have the same dinner. But hey, who doesn't like ice cream first!?!
Started shopping the ‘Black Friday’ sales:
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Pizza boxes along with beer boxes and cat food boxes got burnt yesterday. Couldn't burn most of the summer as it was to dry.
I start my fires with a little propane or map gas torch, from the bottom of the clean out door up through one of the slots. Gave up on the boy scout method years ago lol.
Way to go Packers!
Whatever, they ain't goin nowhere this year.
Got a few loads in between early dinner and late dinner. Even squeezed a short nap in there somewhere.
There you go again, hurting my wheelbarrows feelings. Puts it's head right between it's handles.
WoodAbuser
aka WoodchuckAbuser
Thanksgiving wheelbarrow. After seeing that I think I need a nap.
Happy Thanksgiving . Two venison roasts pan seared and slow cooked in the crock pots . 
Nine hours later
Had to spatchcock the 22 lb bird so it would cook in a reasonable time .
Nine hours later
Had to spatchcock the 22 lb bird so it would cook in a reasonable time .
Happy Thanksgiving to my Muricans! Some kitty corner ash for your viewing pleasure.
For my 40th, Cowgirl got me/us a trip to a tiny island in Far North Queensland - wild country way up in the tropics. Won't say which island. Awesome fishing etc and considerably above our pay grade, but a special occasion. Towards the end of the week there, found out that the owner of the island had a mate with a helicopter business in FNQ and for a price would organise a trip shooting wild pigs from the chopper. Also the typical Oz rules around firearms don't seem to apply up in that part of the world. I saw some of the footage of blokes pinging pigs from a helicopter - looked amazing!
This chop kindling ahead of time is working out great. Wondering if I cut enough. Lighting 2 fires a day currently. Once it gets colder I can forgo kindling and just chuck new wood on the coals.
I have eaten many a wild hog. A big boar will smell like pissing on a fire while cooking. In areas where hogs are a nuisance, and hogs are killed by dozens or hundreds each year, the big boars usually become buzzard bait. The sows or piglets are what are harvested for eating. Even harvesting sows, a lot of the meat is thrown away. You remove the back strap and the hind quarters and dump the rest on the buzzard pile. Not practicle if you only kill one or two hogs a year, but when you kill a couple hundred wild pigs a year, you tend to take the choice cuts and throw away the rest. Wild hogs dont contain the same amout of fat as a pen raised hog and that fat is where the stink is kept. Trim the fat off the meat and you get rid of the stink. Same for a bear, trim away the fat if you are going to eat it. Pen raised hogs are usually cut when very young if being raised for the meat, and breeder boars are cut as soon as the sows are bred if you want to fatten to be eaten. Since most of the wild hogs we get endup as sausage, you add fat back to the meat as you grind it. This fat is usually purchased from a butcher or grocery store. My local Ingles cuts pork on Tuesdays and I will buy up 5lbs or so to keep in the freezer for when I make sausage. You cant tell the difference in taste of a wild hog and a tame one doing it this way. Doing it this way, I dont notice the stink. I usually do 25lbs at a time, but have done as much as 600lbs in a day. It takes a lot of people to do 600lbs in a day. Men deboning, women mixing the seasoning and the kids carrying pails of meat to the grinder. We use a 5hp 220v Hobart commercial grinder for that quantity of meat.
I started burning wood in 1978 in my house. We have never had to clean our chimney. The pipe has always needed to be cleaned but never the chimney. The pipe fills up with burned creosote over a period of every few years. I cleaned the pipe a month ago and took a look up the chimney. Our chimney looked like someone has just cleaned it. My woodstove runs 24/7 usually from November thru March. My first fire of the day is always a really hot one to burn off any creosote that may accumulate in the chimney. So far we have not had any issues with our chimney.Running your flamethrower. I guess that's one way to clean your chimney.
I've never tried removing all the fat so I can't disagree.
Not my photo, just an idear.
That is what I do also with the inner tubs to keep my wood dry.
