Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

ahhhh!!

My mill would need a lot of trimming to get one that big through.

But I cheat by making a cant thus removing a slab on all four sides until it fits. I waste lumber doing it, but otherwise it’s just firewood.

My mill they claim will do a 36" log . They really stretch the truth there . The mill cable for the sawhead hits its limit at about 25 1/2 inches from the bed . Plus you have to remove the blade guides to get more width . So 30 to 32 inches is a more realistic max . That big log tapers from 36 to 26 inches at 10' so some trimming should get it done .

 

[Cebarmlds]

 

[Cebarmlds]

^ Ooops, this is Basil! so far he is a good guy

 

[memphis]

He's gorgeous!!

 

[Cebarmlds]

He's gorgeous!!

Thank you I really am happy with him so far.

 

[Varagol]

So with the last batch of reinforcements, lost six chicks - all white Polish. Is it me, or are they just not as hardy as other chicks? Every time I've gotten them, they always don't make it. I find them dead in the morning, usually in an odd position that they've been stepped on or trampled. They eat, drink and act like chicks, then over a day or two they just peter out and are gone.

I also now see why people love/hate baby ducklings. Good lord almighty do they love to make everything wet around them!

 

[BantyChooks]

So with the last batch of reinforcements, lost six chicks - all white Polish. Is it me, or are they just not as hardy as other chicks? Every time I've gotten them, they always don't make it. I find them dead in the morning, usually in an odd position that they've been stepped on or trampled. They eat, drink and act like chicks, then over a day or two they just peter out and are gone.

I also now see why people love/hate baby ducklings. Good lord almighty do they love to make everything wet around them!

Some Polish lines (okay, most of them) seem to have issues with hardiness. I hear a lot of stories about high fatality rates among them. I've had similar issues with a line of another breed.

 

[duluthralphie]

So with the last batch of reinforcements, lost six chicks - all white Polish. Is it me, or are they just not as hardy as other chicks? Every time I've gotten them, they always don't make it. I find them dead in the morning, usually in an odd position that they've been stepped on or trampled. They eat, drink and act like chicks, then over a day or two they just peter out and are gone.

I also now see why people love/hate baby ducklings. Good lord almighty do they love to make everything wet around them!

Did they catch a draft?

I only had Polish for a short while before I realized I disliked them..

With the warm weather one day and cold snowy the next it is hard to keep chicks alive.

They do better in constant cold weather than this up and down crap we are having now, in my humble but always correct opinion...

 

[Varagol]

Did they catch a draft?

I only had Polish for a short while before I realized I disliked them..

With the warm weather one day and cold snowy the next it is hard to keep chicks alive.

They do better in constant cold weather than this up and down crap we are having now, in my humble but always correct opinion...

No, they are inside with a heat lamp, walls nearly two feet tall.

 

[jerryse]

Hey Ralphie how is Judy's hand . Did you see the Facebook vegan witches I sent ? HMM about that time of year . So if Judy gets out a big pot (cauldron) and starts cooking soup ( witches brew ) be careful . I see ingredients in your posts . Chaga , pumpkin , hair of Sasquatch , eye of potato , ear of corn and head of cabbage .