Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[jvls1942]

good packer 5 - 0 morning

I took some pictures of the plucker..

I hope I can send a couple..

..nope, they didn't seem to take..

..........jiminwisc.....

 

[irishrovr]

@Sclark73

Are you sure you don't have a whole crew of folks working on your place? You've done an amazing amount of work by yourself!! Awesome, just awesome!

@Huntress78

I planted four different varieties - Silver Rose, Elephant, Italian something (with a little purple in it) and another that I can't remember (It has a snap to it when eaten raw but mild when cooked).

I got the first three at: https://seedsnow.refersion.com/c/59d4f

The last one I picked up at the Neillsville Swap

Music (from the Neillsville Swap) was the other garlic variety.

 

[bigzio]

Good Evening To All.... I have the deer all wrapped and in the freezer....we kept all the steaks from the hind quarters, as well as the back loins and the tenderloins...and we still ended up with 53lbs of burger...the burger alone is worth more than $200...the steaks are worth more than that.....well worth the effort, in my opinion.

Great paddle boat mophead!

Yep, amazing job with the house Stacy...high five from me!

Today is the official garlic planting day in our area ( Columbus Day ) good job Irish...you musta known that, eh! I really enjoy white bass...you are fortunate to have a cooler of those........I fillet them with a electric knife, and don't waste any meat...they are good fried or eaten like poormans lobster.

Sorry about your hen Cind...but it happens and cant be helped.

It was a good Packer win....we were lucky they didn't score more point with all the chances they had.

bigz

 

[Sclark73]

Had to swap the window and door so I can use the old table I got from a friend. I'm going to refinish it, most would just throw away but I love the style of it. I have to cut the back side off as one of the legs got chewed up by a mouse but it has pockets on each end, friend thought it may have been a poker table?d

Got some tin up for backing the rest of the area around will be barn boards.

More tin up.

Barn beam is up so I can finally cut opening to make stairs going up to bedroom and get that floor down.

I had help yesterday from Tyler putting beam up, no way I could do that alone. That beam is pretty big. I also got all the electric wire run and most of the water lines along with the rest of the main wall insulation.
Thanks everyone!

 

[Huntress78]

Quote: Music's one of my all around favorites...easy to grow, good taste and storage.
We started to grow a type of rocambole a few years ago to sell (not sure of the variety). Always kept the biggest bulbs for planting so they kept getting bigger over the years...customers loved them. Then this year we didn't have time to care for the bed and the weeds took over. The crop was a dismal failure this summer so now I'm starting over. Thanks for link...Nootka Rose is just what I'm looking for in a softneck!

 

[jvls1942]

good morning,

just about finished with my first cuppa..

chores outside done already,, one scoop of feed .. sure don't miss all those other chickens.

stacy, I am putting my opinion that it was a bumper pool table..?
pockets in each of the four corners,.. look at the center of the table for a diamond shaped series of screw holes .. that is where the bumpers used to be ? just a wild guess..

I decided to make a metal chute on the plucker under the feather discharge hole..
I found some feathers close to the sprockets when I did a final cleaning.. No harm done, but I just don't like that ..

I can't send the new pictures that I took.. I can of all of the previous pictures, though.. they show up in the camera, but not on the screen through the computer ..???

I have to get ahold of DD#2 again,,
I think I know what to do, but I don't know HOW to do it ..

Lots of yard pickup to do before everything gets frozen down..
..........jiminwisc..........

 

[jvls1942]

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this is how the rail is dadoed into the leg..


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this is one of the sides assembled ,, it is leaning against the table saw..

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this is the finished let with the two dado holes ready for the side rails..

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this is the fully assembled frame with all the rails dadoed in.. it is sitting on top of the table saw with a checkered table cloth under it..

sorry these pictures are a bit fuzzy,,
Sclark requested some pictures of the work in progress.. I figured somebody else might be interested too..

............jiminwisc...........

 

[jvls1942]

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you are looking down into the drum..
this is the featherplate.. It spins at 211 RPM.. the plucker fingers around the inside of the tub catch the chicken and makes it roll..
after 30 seconds it is all over with ..
you can do 1 or 2 eight pound chickens at a time..
I have done one 20 pound turkey and lots of muscovy drakes..
I think it would handle a goose, also..
..........jiminwisc...........

 

[bigzio]

Yep, great job on the plucker Jim...ask top dollar for it.

Picked up another load of black walnuts and dumped them in the woods. If I could do over...of course you can't do over in life....but if I could...no pines or black walnuts in the yard...I have a lot of both, creating a lot of clean up work in the fall.

The weather has held out without a killing frost here yet...the winter squash that came on late will ripen if this continues some more...

bigz

 

[jvls1942]

good afternoon,

I accomplished a few things today,,

I got all the brush onto one pile, but not to the burn pile , yet..
mowed the grass in the section where one of the brush piles was..
picked up a piece of rope and broke one of the mower blades clean off.. didn't damage the blade, sut I suspect the adapter is toast ..

then I did a pretty thorough job of grading and back blading the driveway,, I filled in some of the major potholes.. now it would be nice if it all froze like that,, at least it would be smooth for the snowplowing..

finally I went into the garden with Ollie and knocked everything down flat.. did a few doughnuts with the back blade in reverse and mixed the vegetation with the dirt , a little.. It should all rot nicely by spring.. as it is, the corn stalks were already getting soft ..

had a piece of fresh carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, for my reward..

Yes Brent, I listed the plucker on Wausau and on La Crosse craig's list for $1200.oo..



.........jiminwisc.......