CFM chuck123wapati Posted September 20, 2023 Author CFM Report Posted September 20, 2023 On 9/18/2023 at 8:32 PM, Handstitched said: Man, what beauty !!! And Elk steaks sound delish too . And I still can't find bacon steaks here, I keep looking though . HS lol i was a roustabout also only it doesn't mean the same, here it is a job in the oil field usually building or cleaning up oil rig locations digging trenches and basic hard labor. Once at the age of 18 my first job as a roustabout. me and two other guys were sent out to a location to make some repairs it was thanksgiving weekend and a storm blew in closing the roads, we made it to the nearest town the first night and were able to find shelter at a friends parents house but the second night our vehicle battery died and we were stuck over night in sub zero temps about 40 miles past nowhere. We made it by keeping each other awake and finally had to wrap our feet together in an extra pair of coveralls to keep them from freezing. The next day there must have 6 inches of ice inside the cab from our breath lol. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Members Handstitched Posted September 21, 2023 Members Report Posted September 21, 2023 8 hours ago, chuck123wapati said: lol i was a roustabout also only it doesn't mean the same, True here, in shearing sheds, a ' rousy' picks up the 'bellies and tops' , they get thrown into separate wool sacks , and they also pick up the whole fleece straight after the shearer has finished, theres a knack to it , starting with the 'last leg' so it can be thrown onto the ( round rotating) skirting table the top side up, but I never got it right, while at the same time the wool classer works out the grade/ quality of fleece for commercial purposes.. Its then up to the rousy to clean the board ( floor) very quickly, before the shearer starts shearing the next sheep . All the pieces, off cuts etc. get separated into other wool sacks . The rousy also puts the whole skirted fleece into the hydraulic baler . This all happens real quick . The day starts at 7.30am sharp and finishes 5.30pm . Every shearer and rousy earns every cent. Its hot, messy and smelly work , sometimes dangerous , and not for the faint hearted. So glad I took up leather work Man, your job was just as dangerous, you're lucky you didn't get hypothermia in those extreme temps. I guess in hindsight, a hip flask...or two would have been handy. Hope you got danger money for that ? HS Quote ' I have a very gweat friend in Wome called Biggus Dickus, He has a wife you know, do you know whats she's called? Incontinentia.......Incontinentia Buttocks '
CFM chuck123wapati Posted September 21, 2023 Author CFM Report Posted September 21, 2023 8 hours ago, Handstitched said: True here, in shearing sheds, a ' rousy' picks up the 'bellies and tops' , they get thrown into separate wool sacks , and they also pick up the whole fleece straight after the shearer has finished, theres a knack to it , starting with the 'last leg' so it can be thrown onto the ( round rotating) skirting table the top side up, but I never got it right, while at the same time the wool classer works out the grade/ quality of fleece for commercial purposes.. Its then up to the rousy to clean the board ( floor) very quickly, before the shearer starts shearing the next sheep . All the pieces, off cuts etc. get separated into other wool sacks . The rousy also puts the whole skirted fleece into the hydraulic baler . This all happens real quick . The day starts at 7.30am sharp and finishes 5.30pm . Every shearer and rousy earns every cent. Its hot, messy and smelly work , sometimes dangerous , and not for the faint hearted. So glad I took up leather work Man, your job was just as dangerous, you're lucky you didn't get hypothermia in those extreme temps. I guess in hindsight, a hip flask...or two would have been handy. Hope you got danger money for that ? HS the county i live in at one time was the largest wool producer in the US, we have old shearing pens all along the railroad tracks. In school every year we would take a field trip out to watch the shearing process. Most of the herders and shearers back then were of Basque ancestry. I still have my great uncles sheep wagon, which i really need to paint before it turns to dust. It was built after ww1 when he returned from the war. A funny story when my wife and i first met I took her for a drive out in the country. We came upon a flock of sheep being docked and i was telling her how the Basques would cut the bag then pull out the testicles with their teeth. She was giving me the blues for bullshitting her then as we got closer to the process and as we went by i said just watch that guy over there and sure enough he did right in front of her lol, cut the bag pulled em out and spat them in a bucket. She about died right there and started gaging and i of course laughed my butt off, she never forgot that one. Btw sheep nuts are some fine eating!!! Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Members Handstitched Posted September 21, 2023 Members Report Posted September 21, 2023 44 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said: the Basques would cut the bag then pull out the testicles with their teeth. Thats a very real thing, its also true of the shepherds in the early UK . When they died, they had a piece of fleece placed on their coffin to show God that they were shepherds. Going down memory lane here. When I was in first year high school, year 8, we went on a school camp, in Albany, WA . One of the ' excursions' was at the Albany abattoir where sheep were processed( not there any more) . What in Gods name were our teachers thinking ??? ( Most school excursions are at places of interest etc .) While all the other kids were almost passing out , I was just fascinated how the whole process was done and not bothered by the sight . The sheep go in at the beginning, have their 'deeds' done, and come out in meat packs . The most interesting part was how the brains were extracted, its was like a giant nut cracker with a levered blade, split the skull open, and the brain comes out undamaged. ( hope your Wife doesn't read this , lol ) . But no part of the sheep was wasted, everything was used. Needless to say we had lamb on the BBQ that night . Never tried sheep nuts, but I am a big fan of ' black pudding' ( aka blood pudding or blood sausage) . Its one of those excursions, or pieces of reality that kids need to see these days . I've also been in abattoirs where cattle are processed. A bit of irony that I now work with leather. Those shearing pens need to be preserved, as well as the wagon, they are a connection to our past. Theres a few old shearing sheds scattered about the wheatbelt, that are around the 80- 100 year old mark, some are being used still . HS Quote ' I have a very gweat friend in Wome called Biggus Dickus, He has a wife you know, do you know whats she's called? Incontinentia.......Incontinentia Buttocks '
CFM chuck123wapati Posted September 21, 2023 Author CFM Report Posted September 21, 2023 4 hours ago, Handstitched said: ( hope your Wife doesn't read this , lol ) . HS I even had to teach her how to put a worm on a hook but she has adapted after 40 years of following me around the woods and living a country lifestyle, she hunts and fishes and we butcher all our game our selves including the cute little bunnies we raise to eat. I don't think anything would phase her now. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Members Handstitched Posted September 22, 2023 Members Report Posted September 22, 2023 18 hours ago, chuck123wapati said: I even had to teach her how to put a worm on a hook but she has adapted after 40 years of following me around the woods and living a country lifestyle, she hunts and fishes and we butcher all our game our selves including the cute little bunnies we raise to eat. I don't think anything would phase her now. You're actually talking about my ideal lifestyle . I'd love to go walkabout through the bush, and live off the land . I think I have mentioned in the past my ' yearn' to go bush . One day HS Quote ' I have a very gweat friend in Wome called Biggus Dickus, He has a wife you know, do you know whats she's called? Incontinentia.......Incontinentia Buttocks '
CFM chuck123wapati Posted September 22, 2023 Author CFM Report Posted September 22, 2023 3 hours ago, Handstitched said: You're actually talking about my ideal lifestyle . I'd love to go walkabout through the bush, and live off the land . I think I have mentioned in the past my ' yearn' to go bush . One day HS I truly hope you get the chance, i would love to see the Australian outback i think its a lot like the red desert here except its not 6000+ feet in altitude. We did well this year put some fish in the freezer and a ton of wild greens, most folks call them weeds. we have six or seven edible plants in our garden that most folks pull out and throw away. We use them all. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Members bladegrinder Posted October 2, 2023 Members Report Posted October 2, 2023 Bought an electric smoker the other day on sale, I have two wood burners but I thought I'd see what these electric ones are all about. This was my first smoke in it, #5 of venison snack sticks. they came out great! Quote
Members bladegrinder Posted October 2, 2023 Members Report Posted October 2, 2023 While the venison sticks were smoking I went and pulled some pine tree stumps, these were blow overs from hurricane Michael. I'm still cleaning up from that. some were in kind of wet areas that I need to wait till it's really dry to pull them and get them out. I got my tractor stuck twice, never again! Quote
Members Handstitched Posted October 2, 2023 Members Report Posted October 2, 2023 They look tasty I have tried using a Weber BBQ kettle to smoke a piece of beef using the slow ' snake' technique with the BBQ coals. It didn't go well. I could have soled my shoes with the meat. Perhaps the piece of meat was too small. I'm a big fan of beef jerky, goes well with beer . HS Quote ' I have a very gweat friend in Wome called Biggus Dickus, He has a wife you know, do you know whats she's called? Incontinentia.......Incontinentia Buttocks '
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