What did you do in your shop today?
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I wish I could go but I will have my daughter by myself and I don't think it would work out too well.
Publix is a grocery store in FL and their sandwiches are great!
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Well, got home and made dinner for my step daughters and made a pen while doing a couple loads of laundry.....took the pen with me to work today and didn't take long to sell it and get orders for 3 more.... feels good to have your work admired.
I put the finish on an urn I made for a family from church. I opened the mail to find a bunch of assorted blanks from Norman Van Dyke. Thank you very very much Norman!!! (@norman vandyke ). I made a butt load of saw dust. A jig for welding up a BBQ grate. Then I went to the welding shop and welded 250.00 worth of 9/16 CR round bar into 3 grates for a big smoker for my youngest brother. Then I set 41 eggs in the incubator. Oh, and I learned a new song that I will be leading at a funeral tomorrow for the people for whom I made the urn. All in all a pretty full day.
We have Americauna hens and Roosters. And I have one Dominique hen. She lays brown eggs and has been crossed now with the Americaunas. I am anxious to see the results of this cross.
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I wish I could have chickens, but I live in the city and its not allowed. I had them when I was a kid. They are entertaining, eat just about anything, and give us eggs!
City I live in just recently passed ordinance allowing 6 hens no roosters in city limits.....I thought about it for a bit but have too many animals as it is.
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My city council took a vote recently and said no!
Now that's some serious smoker grates there!! 
Looks almost like you mighta knowed what you were doin!! 
I should get some chickens and turn loose around here, then the grand-niece could have Easter every day. Have to build a critter proof Chicken Tractor though. I have more than my share of Bobcats, Red Foxes, Gray Foxes, Coyotes, Coons, Possums, Skunks, Chicken Hawks, Owls, and Snakes to deal with. And, had a Bald Eagle out here by the ponds a week or two ago.
Looks almost like you mighta knowed what you were doin!! I should get some chickens and turn loose around here, then the grand-niece could have Easter every day. Have to build a critter proof Chicken Tractor though. I have more than my share of Bobcats, Red Foxes, Gray Foxes, Coyotes, Coons, Possums, Skunks, Chicken Hawks, Owls, and Snakes to deal with. And, had a Bald Eagle out here by the ponds a week or two ago.
I'd like to get some ducks, the eggs are better IMO. My wife says no though....
That's something I've never eaten. Not sure why. Just haven't. I have heard they are very good. I had an Ostrich egg once. Scrambled. Fed three people with it. Not bad.
Now that's some serious smoker grates there!!
I should get some chickens and turn loose around here, then the grand-niece could have Easter every day. Have to build a critter proof Chicken Tractor though. I have more than my share of Bobcats, Red Foxes, Gray Foxes, Coyotes, Coons, Possums, Skunks, Chicken Hawks, Owls, and Snakes to deal with. And, had a Bald Eagle out here by the ponds a week or two ago.
Yes sir. I've been building pits for about 16 years now. Trying to get away from it though. Metal isn't getting any lighter. And I have a coon that has been reaching under the tractor at night and pulling em out one a night to feast on. I'll st a trap tomorrow and send him to see Jesus. We've got all the critters you've listed too. My hen house is pretty secure. Haven't had anything get any of my hens. We've had hens now for three years. The tractor is a different story. Because it moves every day it doesn't always sit on level ground and if I don't black the hole with something, the coons will reach under and grab a leg. I went out last night to the sound of squawking and sure enough. There was a mostly eaten chicken leg haing out from under the tractor. Coon ran off when I turned the corner with the flashlight.
You know, if something grabbed my leg from under the bed at night I dang sure wouldn't stand still and let it gnaw on my foot. But a chicken will. Amazing. Just sit there and squawk while the coon is eating it's leg. Sometimes they don't even squawk. The only critter I know of that is dumber than a chicken is a sheep. Sheep are born to die. That and goats. I'm not a big fan of mutton nor cabrito so we don't have either species.
Had someone give me a pair of Toulouse Geese one time, don't ever try fried goose eggs!! Wee bit to much yoke there, and it's very very rich!
Goose decided to set a clutch of eggs one time, began fairly normal, 6-8 eggs, then she added to it, went to about 13.
Skunk made the mistake of trying to raid the nest one night. They literally beat it to death in the middle of the chicken coop. Was not a pretty scene!! 6x6 room in the barn with a beat to death dead skunk in it to haul off! Made my day!! For several weeks!! Couldn't convince anyone to go gather eggs.
Finally hatched off 9 goslings I think it was. They were all too heavy to fly, get a run and try to take off and make it 2 - 4 feet airborne was about it. But they were some track stars!!! Damn things wandered all over the neighborhood, had several complaints about them walking down the middle of the road like they owned it. Told them all to run over the damn things, I was tired of chasing them!
Neighbor up the road about a mile called me up one day, said they'd wandered up there and I needed to come get them so they didn't get hit on the road. I went up with the pickup, (again these things couldn't fly), tossed them all in the back one at a time. He's fussing and carrying on, telling me the whole time they're going to get out. I was telling him the whole time they weren't going anywhere, and if they did I was leaving them! He was fussing about not wanting any geese, I was steady telling him, they weren't going anywhere, I fed them too good, and now I was taking them for car rides to boot.
We stood there and talked 10 - 15 minutes after I loaded them, Geese walking around in the back of the truck, looking out over the side, honking occasionally. He finally said, "That just beats all I've ever seen! How do you get those damn geese to stay in there?!" I laughed, told him they were afraid he'd eat them if I left them, hopped in the truck, and took them home. He must have told everyone in town about it, everywhere I went for a month someone asked me how I kept those geese in the back of the pickup.
Goose decided to set a clutch of eggs one time, began fairly normal, 6-8 eggs, then she added to it, went to about 13.
Skunk made the mistake of trying to raid the nest one night. They literally beat it to death in the middle of the chicken coop. Was not a pretty scene!! 6x6 room in the barn with a beat to death dead skunk in it to haul off! Made my day!! For several weeks!! Couldn't convince anyone to go gather eggs.
Finally hatched off 9 goslings I think it was. They were all too heavy to fly, get a run and try to take off and make it 2 - 4 feet airborne was about it. But they were some track stars!!! Damn things wandered all over the neighborhood, had several complaints about them walking down the middle of the road like they owned it. Told them all to run over the damn things, I was tired of chasing them!
Neighbor up the road about a mile called me up one day, said they'd wandered up there and I needed to come get them so they didn't get hit on the road. I went up with the pickup, (again these things couldn't fly), tossed them all in the back one at a time. He's fussing and carrying on, telling me the whole time they're going to get out. I was telling him the whole time they weren't going anywhere, and if they did I was leaving them! He was fussing about not wanting any geese, I was steady telling him, they weren't going anywhere, I fed them too good, and now I was taking them for car rides to boot.
We stood there and talked 10 - 15 minutes after I loaded them, Geese walking around in the back of the truck, looking out over the side, honking occasionally. He finally said, "That just beats all I've ever seen! How do you get those damn geese to stay in there?!" I laughed, told him they were afraid he'd eat them if I left them, hopped in the truck, and took them home. He must have told everyone in town about it, everywhere I went for a month someone asked me how I kept those geese in the back of the pickup.
Road trip today for the shop. now I'm going to flee up some big butcher block tops. this is a sample of what I unloaded tonight. also found a nice early Stanley 36 to use when smoothing those tops.
Thinned the coon population down a little around here. Buddy was tired of coons eating his corn he put out for the deer, so he bought a bunch of those new fangled leg hold coon traps. Thinned his down, thinned mine down, thinned coons at two other locations down the road down. Not sure what he caught but it was approaching 20 inside a week at 4 locations. Took 4 out of here, and I wasn't seeing any tracks for a few days, but have a set or two have shown back up in the last couple days.
I built several box traps. I prefer them over the other style that way if I catch the neighbor's dog or something I can turn it loose. Anything else catches a .22 between the eyes.
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Nice sewing machine legs, look like the ones I have been getting. I think the one with the round circles is a white. Very early before they started casting the name in the legs.
The new "foot hold" traps are pretty much guaranteed not to catch dogs Clay. Might catch the occasional house cat, but usually they won't go for the stuff he was baiting with. (Screwed the lid on his bait jar a little to tight and the sun hit, and literally exploded the mason jar it was in. Combination of sardines, little fish oil, some sour mash, not sure what else was in it, had to call in the Haz-Mat Team for cleanup.) Marshmallows are supposed to work well stuffed down in there too. Catch the occasional possum, skunks legs aren't long enough to get down in them. Occasionally break a leg with them, but a lot of them all it does is slam shut on it, and they can't pull it out.
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I'll be looking into these.