Jonathan; What do you do with all that cider? You can’t keep it too long before it goes hard, doesn’t it? I had apples coming out of my ears this year. We made all the apple sauce we could, gave bushels away to city folk, fed my horses, and the neighbors pigs and still ended up taking bucket upon buckets to the back forty and dumping them for the deer and other critters. I have thought about a cider press but didn’t know what I’d do with the cider. Can you sell it with out government interference? (Hmmm, how about letting it get hard and running my truck off it instead of wood?? Now I know that would draw the governments attention)
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Tom C: When I was a kid, my parents made lots of cider. One can Can it in large jars (they sell 1 gallon canning jars around here) for pantry storage, or just fill up old plastic milk jugs and toss them in the freezer chest for the winter. As long as you make sure ALL of the ice is melted, it’ll still be better than any store-bought cider come Spring.
I think my dad still has his old press. Last I heard, all it needed was a 2x4 across the top of the screw press. It probably needs a lot more than that now since it’s probably been 10 years since it was last used. 
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Holy… S**t… Welding with only a lathe.
Tom C, we CAN basically all of our Apple juice we don’t let it go hard. we also freeze some in half gallon milk jugs and take it out during the winter for use it’s real good it’s almost as good as it is fresh
Brian, that is a really neat video of the lathe making a friction weld never seen anything like that done before
Chrisky is secretly headed there 
loading up small cottage to take to a lake side property…
Hello all
I did a little project this afternoon and thought I would share it. Used a water heater to make a campfire and it seems to work great.
My son, Loren, had his kidney transplant yesterday. He was sore yesterday and last night. He was having bladder spasms which are quite painful. When I got to the ICU this AM, he was sitting in a chair complaining so I knew he was doing well. They moved him to a private room this afternoon. The American Kidney Foundation has done a lot to help on this whole ordeal. They flew his donor in from Ohio on Tuesday. This has been one heck of a deal. His brother in law donated to a forty seven year old lady and her friend, about a forty year old lady donated to my son. He will probably be home Sunday or Monday.
Chris T
Howdy Chris,
Glad it worked out for him… Can’t be good thing to have to go through.
TerryL
That’s good news. Glad it all went well.
Good Morning Chris,
Really glad all went well. Please give Loren our regards.
Wayne
Yes, wish Loren the best.
I had a molar extracted yesterday… I had to laugh at the some of the questions on the forms i had to fill out… when was my last dentist appointment… sheesh… ahhh… 40 years ago?.. the assistant just told me to put down that i didn’t know. sure glad to have it gone as part of the nerve was exposed (had a filling pop out) but I don’t think i’d want to do that everyday.
Well its that time of year again
My sweetie says we need venison.
OK honey, I’ll go hunting if I have too.
One down one more to go.
Gasifier, oh ya, I’m working on that too when I get time. However, been on a job site and will be on one again next. I wanted to do the final install of the gasifier and drop box in the truck today but that didnt happen.
Woke up early and went hunting for a couple hours
Cut two loads of fire wood and put it in the shed
Took apart my outdoor wood boiler to weld up a pin hole leak
Went hunting again and stuck a doe
My sweetie field dressed the deer, then I registered it, hung it, and skinned it.
Ya thats right my wife guts my deer for me. I cant stand the sight of blood much less pulling on slimy slippery warm innerds with blood up to my elbows.
I can cut and skin and even clean fish but dont ask me to gut a deer, beef, or a hog. My legs will become rubber and I’ll loose my cookies on the way down.
When it comes to blood I’m no macho man.
Hey Wes man
For my Wife and I it is the opposite. Once I can put it belly up and deaded, gutted and carcass converted she is fine with it then.
We all have our weak momonts needing a little help. For some it is to get sights on and NOT string release or trigger squeeze off all tunneled into the moment. Ha! I have my Wife or Brother-in-law help me with this.
My dogs need constant reminding to restrian and hold and not to crunch bite their run downs.
Regards
Steve Unruh
Always look on the bright side! Gasifier wood fell on wife’s car during an overnight wet snow with leaves still on the trees.
Score: Wood-1, Petrol-0, Insurance Co. -1
Don M. That is some rather expensive woodgas fuel. Let’s say it’s 100 dry pounds of usable sized wood so roughly 100 miles in a WK Dakota. EPA says the '95 318 Dakota gets 14 “Combined” MPG of Dino. That is 7.14 gallons of Dino. Around here, Dino is “back down” to 3.25$/gallon. Congratulations, the sacrifice of your wife’s car has “saved” you 23.21$. >_<
