Recent content by b116757

I made one of those out of 3/4” hickory a while ago just to see if I liked them to sit in. Last time i had logs cut I had quite a bit of 8/4 cut so I could make a few of them when I got around to it they really are not bad for comfort I least I thought they where OK.

My daffodils are nearly done my fern leaf peony just opened.

I used 3/4 plywood to build the sled it works ok if I did a lot of this type of thing I might build or buy a better one but for an occational slab project every 10-15 years it’s fine. Who knows I may do more of it after retirement. I love to build furniture but it takes up so much room there has...

I bought a couple thousand rounds of Wolf steel case 223 for $89 a thousand years ago I still have maybe 800 rounds left of it. Not the most accurate stuff but it goes bang. Wish I could find some at that price today!!

One of my boxes I’m going to drill the compartment dividers so I have 12 two room condo’s instead of the 24 rooms I have know I’ve read that the Purple Martins like the larger compartments but I thought I’d just try one house before I did them all that way.

I’m installing starling proof doors on three 24 room purple Martin houses. I got two houses done today takes me about 1.5 hours per house after dinner I may start on the last one see if I can’t finish it up this evening. Tired of fighting the good fight with the starlings hopefully these doors...

I got 5 crabapple trees I ordered yesterday and got 4 pear trees today. Still waiting on 100 seedling oaks.

I’ve built a couple stills years ago out of stainless so if she ever gets any hard cider made turning some into a brandy shouldn’t be a problem.

When you say burns you up does it cause you heartburn?

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Guys my wife told my the other day she wanted to take up wine making in retirement. I suggested maybe hard apple cider would be better since we have no grapes but about a hundred or more apple and pear trees. Anyone have any suggestions on good books worth buying for hard cider making?

I use 223 for a lot of hunting and have for last 30 years I like the 55ish grain solid copper bullets from Barns or Hornady and push them fast don’t be tempted to use the heavier 70grain solid copper bullets in 223 they can’t reliably be pushed fast enough to open up they would be the bomb...

https://www.treepro.com/products/mycorrhizal-root-dip I’ve used this stuff for dibble planting hundreds of seedling oak trees. I’ve got 100 coming this spring to replace verities that have done poorly on my site and will likely use this root dip again.

Some of my pawpaw groves would likely be in a flood plane area for sure in fact I know they are one grove was most definitely under water a couple springs ago.

I suspect that’s a typo and was for some other birds exclusion but idk. I may have to build one if these I’ve got two Purple Martin houses I have to get moved to my place and stood up this weekend anyway.