BarG's Bull Stuff

[BarG]

It all looks great. Very nice matching the panels. You do really good work. The bowls you sent are very much appreciated. We keep them on display.


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You need to use those, candy for kids and old men,

 

[BarG]

I should have sent you a lid for them. I can't keep my hands out of the candy bowl.

 

[BarG]

She must. She is the most patient person I know or she wouldn't have been able to put up with me for so long. We were high school sweethearts and have been together ever since. We now have three grandkids running around and a fourth on the way. Time does go fast. A good woman is hard to find - and a patient one even harder

So the cabinet doors were elm, that's some nice looking wood and you matched the patterns well. I've worked a little with pecan, walnut, cherry, and a few types of oak, for some primitive bed frames, headboards, benches, and picture frames - nothing as fancy as what you've done by any measure - and notice each type of wood has its own quirks and qualities. I've never tried elm, I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever go nuts and start a wood working project again.

I know you are just as capable, I appreciate anyone who can see what goes into a project. If you have worked with wood as a real endeavor to give pleasure to the end results then I can relate.

 

[BarG]

I know you are just as capable, I appreciate anyone who can see what goes into a project. If you have worked with wood as a real endeavor to give pleasure to the end results then I can relate.

 

[BarG]

 

[BarG]

I am almost finished with this project. A young lady is getting married, and her grandmother is a good friend and customer of mine. She said wedding arch and sent a pic. With no arch. Lol

 

[BarG]

I am almost finished with this project. A young lady is getting married, and her grandmother is a good friend and customer of mine. She said wedding arch and sent a pic. With no arch. Lol

I sent a pic and asked if I went overboard, I don't think so according to her reaction.

 

[BarG]

She must. She is the most patient person I know or she wouldn't have been able to put up with me for so long. We were high school sweethearts and have been together ever since. We now have three grandkids running around and a fourth on the way. Time does go fast. A good woman is hard to find - and a patient one even harder

So the cabinet doors were elm, that's some nice looking wood and you matched the patterns well. I've worked a little with pecan, walnut, cherry, and a few types of oak, for some primitive bed frames, headboards, benches, and picture frames - nothing as fancy as what you've done by any measure - and notice each type of wood has its own quirks and qualities. I've never tried elm, I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever go nuts and start a wood working project again.

I know you are just as capable, I appreciate anyone who can see what goes into a project. If you have worked with wood as a real endeavor to give pleasure to the end results then I can relate.

 

[BarG]

The kitchen and pens look great. That's some nice looking wood on the cabinets.
If you're breaking even on feed cost you are doing great. I usually am happy to cover about half my feed cost from selling eggs (chickens). My daughter raises chickens, quail, and ducks. She makes a decent amount off the eggs (especially the quail eggs) and barters part of the chicken eggs off for milk at the local grocery store. Went out to visit her a few months ago and she was plucking and cleaning a chicken for dinner. I had a hell of a laugh about that. 5 years ago she was almost strictly a vegetarian. Guess things change when you have kids and a family to feed.

We incubated a bunch of chicken eggs last year, more than half turned out roosters much to our dismay. It was total chaos till I separated the. Been having rooster baked, rooster fajitas, not sure what's next on the menu, lol. I got 50 mature quail after processing 12 last wknd. I got 26 new hatchlings. I am becoming a fan of my pickled eggs, there great for snacking. Mine are speecy spicy. I can't give the roosters away, LoL

 

[BarG]

I don't pluck em , I skin em.

 

[plantdude]

The expected ratio of hens to roosters is supposed to be 50:50 when hatching. It's funny though, just about everyone I know who hatches eggs gets a higher percentage of roosters without fail - usually about 65-70% roosters. I'll have to ask my daughter how her last few batches have turned out ratio wise.
When I was a boy growing up we let our chickens hatch eggs a few times. The expected ratio usually turned out to be out 10% surviving and 90% dog killed. We had a bird dog (weimaraner). He could care less about the adult chickens but he went nuts for the baby chicks, guess he didn't see them as chickens at that stage. He'd grab one and carry it proudly around for about 5 minutes until he couldn't take the excitement and would bite down too hard. There was usually no getting them away from him either. Good looking dog, but a lousy hunter and one of the most hardheaded dogs I've ever known.

 

[BarG]

I had a hen brooding an empty nest, she wasn't laying, after a couple weeks I put a few eggs under her and 1 hatched.lol. no telling if it's a hen or not, ?

 

[BarG]

She must. She is the most patient person I know or she wouldn't have been able to put up with me for so long. We were high school sweethearts and have been together ever since. We now have three grandkids running around and a fourth on the way. Time does go fast. A good woman is hard to find - and a patient one even harder

So the cabinet doors were elm, that's some nice looking wood and you matched the patterns well. I've worked a little with pecan, walnut, cherry, and a few types of oak, for some primitive bed frames, headboards, benches, and picture frames - nothing as fancy as what you've done by any measure - and notice each type of wood has its own quirks and qualities. I've never tried elm, I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever go nuts and start a wood working project again.

I wish you would post some pictures of your projects, I certainly love looking at other people's imagination. It's always nice to get out of your own head and appreciate what other people do.

 

[BarG]

I am a member to several different types of sites for anything related to wood. I am always amazed at the different ideas people come up with being professional or amateur makes no difference, the fact they created something is really what it's all about. After prostitution probably second oldest profession.

 

[Knucklehead]

I am a member to several different types of sites for anything related to wood. I am always amazed at the different ideas people come up with being professional or amateur makes no difference, the fact they created something is really what it's all about. After prostitution probably second oldest profession.

I agree, somebody had to build the bordellos to get the prostitutes out of the rain.

 

[plantdude]

I wish you would post some pictures of your projects, I certainly love looking at other people's imagination. It's always nice to get out of your own head and appreciate what other people do.

My last woodworking project was back in 2018 and consisted of adding a little fancy wood scraps to an otherwise boring chicken coop. The oak entrance ramp leads up to the walnut front door and entry way. Two large doors on either side of the main entrance open up for full access to the coop with the wood running parallel or horizontal to the ground on either side so at least on side can always be opened when the wood swells during the rainy season. The large door on the right was from a pretty neat European pallet of unknown wood that I repurposed and the door on the left was white pine left over from fence boards. Inside the coop (and not shown) was a pine 2x4 staircase leading to oak perches as well as state of the art nesting boxes consisting of oak frames with thin plywood dividers for privacy so the hens can lay their eggs while maintaining their dignity.
The thin particle board roof was replaced a few years ago with a thicker piece of plywood and the inside is currently coated with pine shavings and chicken dung - what can I say it's a chicken coop. To quote @Knucklehead it gets the the girls out out of the rain

I've made a few picture frames, a bench, some shelves, and some bed frames. Nothing quite as spectacular as the chicken coop though. I'll have to take a few pictures one of these days, I didn't consider them picture worthy at the time they were made.

 

[BarG]

 

[BarG]

Super bowl 2026, testing out my new used pit. Happy after searing. Will update finished pic. Plan on giving a 3/8 smoke ring then wrapping with heavy duty foil and some beer and giving at least 10 hours. It's been 10 years since I cooked one and am real happy so far with this new used pit I bought yesterday, very easy to control temperature.

 

[BarG]

My last woodworking project was back in 2018 and consisted of adding a little fancy wood scraps to an otherwise boring chicken coop. The oak entrance ramp leads up to the walnut front door and entry way. Two large doors on either side of the main entrance open up for full access to the coop with the wood running parallel or horizontal to the ground on either side so at least on side can always be opened when the wood swells during the rainy season. The large door on the right was from a pretty neat European pallet of unknown wood that I repurposed and the door on the left was white pine left over from fence boards. Inside the coop (and not shown) was a pine 2x4 staircase leading to oak perches as well as state of the art nesting boxes consisting of oak frames with thin plywood dividers for privacy so the hens can lay their eggs while maintaining their dignity.
The thin particle board roof was replaced a few years ago with a thicker piece of plywood and the inside is currently coated with pine shavings and chicken dung - what can I say it's a chicken coop. To quote @Knucklehead it gets the the girls out out of the rain

I've made a few picture frames, a bench, some shelves, and some bed frames. Nothing quite as spectacular as the chicken coop though. I'll have to take a few pictures one of these days, I didn't consider them picture worthy at the time they were made.

That chicken coop is worth a fortune considering the woods you had available, I'm jealous, LoL, my chickens are getting a steady diet of quail eggs lately, I'm getting 200 a week, I finally decided to cull my flock.. my chickens haven't been laying for weeks now even before I started giving the quail eggs.

 

[BarG]

Pygmy chickens