What Are You Buying Right Now? (non-OT version)

kl8ton

@alaskanassasin

I put turkeys in with the chickens. It took me a little too long to realize that the roosting turkeys were jumping off of their roosts onto the chickens. Each time they landed they pretty much killed one or two chickens. I thought I was fighting a disease. Needless to say I ended up with about 70 chickens.

loco_engr

I'm trying to find a stand alone video conversion device with ethernet in port and hdmi out port to improve sd streaming programs

alaskanassasin

@kl8ton Interesting. I could see how that would be hard to figure out thanks for sharing.

Canugghead

Acn said:

Legume said:

Langner91 said:

kl8ton said:

alaskanassasin said:

alaskanassasin said:

Just got off the phone with the Mennonite butchers, scheduled for first week in October 

I had about 100 to butcher - I think about 70 made it to the end.  I called an Amish butcher that would have been a 3 hour round trip for me.  I asked him "So if I drop them off at 11AM, when can I pick them back up?"  He was confused.  After a few clarifying questions, I realized his crew would have them ready inside of an hour.  No return trip would have been necessary.  I almost did it for the spectacle of them processing the birds that quickly.

The last time I witnessed a chicken slaughter, the same thing happened.  We were asked to wait while a group of the scariest looking dudes you have ever seen grabbed chickens as fast as they could and stuffed them in upside-down traffic cones that were screwed to a wooden fence at about shoulder height.  Then "Larry", the kill-man, came along and decapitated them as soon as they stuck their head out of the cone to get some daylight.  It was like the horror movie version of whack-a-mole!

He grinned the entire time.  The man truly loved his job.

The massacre took only minutes.  I can still see the feathers.  They were literally everywhere.

My buddy and I were pretty silent on the ride home, choosing not to talk about what we had just seen.

I had a boss years ago that had grown up on a farm.  He wouldn’t eat chicken.  When he was a kid, one of his jobs was to tie the chickens by the feet to a clothes line (hanging upside down) and then with the long blade hedge trimmers come along and cut the heads.

One of my closest friends refuses to eat lobster because he grew up baiting traps on his father’s lobster boat.

A guy I used to work with would not eat ketchup. He dad was a tomato farmer, growing up he would ride in his old man’s pickup truck for delivery to the local Heinz, seen his fair share of four legged creatures amongst the matos!

GlennM

I have been raising chickens and processing them myself for over 30 years. It’s not that hard to do, 2 of us can get 50 birds done in an hour. A far better product than store bought and good return on investment. I rarely lose any birds, the biggest problem I had was the hot temps in the summer. I get my birds in mid August now and kill them at around 7 weeks. They are usually in the 5 lb range by then. 

alaskanassasin

Very cool @GlennM it must be worth the effort if you keep doing it year after year.

GlennM

alaskanassasin said:

Very cool @GlennM it must be worth the effort if you keep doing it year after year.

For sure. Get set up and go for it. You can raise a crop of chickens faster than a tomato plant!  I have a plucker - saves a lot of time. 30 seconds and plucked perfectly

WeberWho

GlennM said:

alaskanassasin said:

Very cool @GlennM it must be worth the effort if you keep doing it year after year.

For sure. Get set up and go for it. You can raise a crop of chickens faster than a tomato plant!  I have a plucker - saves a lot of time. 30 seconds and plucked perfectly

I had no idea there was such a thing. Thank you YouTube. That looks super slick. 

alaskanassasin

Those are pretty @GlennM

JohnfromKentucky

GlennM said:

For sure. Get set up and go for it. You can raise a crop of chickens faster than a tomato plant!  I have a plucker - saves a lot of time. 30 seconds and plucked perfectly

What brand is the chicken plucker? 

GrateEggspectations

JohnfromKentucky said:

GlennM said:

For sure. Get set up and go for it. You can raise a crop of chickens faster than a tomato plant!  I have a plucker - saves a lot of time. 30 seconds and plucked perfectly

What brand is the chicken plucker? 

Looks like the Mother brand. It’s a Mother plucker. 

JohnInCarolina

GrateEggspectations said:

JohnfromKentucky said:

GlennM said:

For sure. Get set up and go for it. You can raise a crop of chickens faster than a tomato plant!  I have a plucker - saves a lot of time. 30 seconds and plucked perfectly

What brand is the chicken plucker? 

Looks like the Mother brand. It’s a Mother plucker. 

Botch

 

GrateEggspectations

JohnInCarolina said:

GrateEggspectations said:

JohnfromKentucky said:

GlennM said:

For sure. Get set up and go for it. You can raise a crop of chickens faster than a tomato plant!  I have a plucker - saves a lot of time. 30 seconds and plucked perfectly

What brand is the chicken plucker? 

Looks like the Mother brand. It’s a Mother plucker. 

Quite assuredly twice the clap rate generated by your lectures. 🤭

GlennM

Yes, we call it the mother plucker. Not sure who makes it looks like this

Botch

You got my curiousity up.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LViETnq18xo
 
I learned something today, and its only 0700!    

TechsasJim

@botch thanks for sharing, that is pretty darn cool.   Having said that I sincerely hope I never have to use one of those.

Botch

@GlennM , so what kind of a pile of feathers do you end up with?  I do remember my Grandma Botch chopping chickens' heads off when I was a kid, but I don't remember how she plucked them.  

fishlessman

Botch said:

You got my curiousity up.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LViETnq18xo
 
I learned something today, and its only 0700!    

so much better than the ones ive seen with the nubs on the outside spinning and you roll the chicken over and side to side, feathers go everywhere......

Ozzie_Isaac

Botch said:

You got my curiousity up.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LViETnq18xo
 
I learned something today, and its only 0700!    

Pro-tip: Dispatch chicken first.

kl8ton

We had the one from tractor supply. We returned it after using it. Not as advertised. I think we were possibly the first one to return a chicken plucker.

GlennM

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Botch said:

You got my curiousity up.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LViETnq18xo
 
I learned something today, and its only 0700!    

Pro-tip: Dispatch chicken first.

The one in the video is the one we have. It’s all stainless but he hasn’t pulled the shipping plastic off it yet. And yes, water temp is crucial 

sumoconnell

tcampbell said:

Sumoconnell it's a power burner. Shrimp boils, fish Fry's etc. It will simmer at 500btu or boil at 65,000 btu

Ah- didn't realize it was sideways, I should have known.  Looked like a bank vault!

ColbyLang

New luggage, man this stuff got expensive. Last set was 15 years old and was unwisely put into our attic. It dry rotted. Not happy

TechsasJim

@ColbyLang check Amazon (guess that was rhetorical).     

I grabbed multiple Samsonite pieces for what I perceived to be a good deal.   Albeit this was a couple years ago and over the span of a few weeks.  

ColbyLang

TechsasJim said:

@ColbyLang check Amazon (guess that was rhetorical).     

I grabbed multiple Samsonite pieces for what I perceived to be a good deal.   Albeit this was a couple years ago and over the span of a few weeks.  

For the price, I’m looking at (buying) the Rolling Thunder line from the North Face. I’ve got member points that bring the pricing down a little. Gonna examine and return if I don’t like what we see. 

U_tarded

ColbyLang said:

TechsasJim said:

@ColbyLang check Amazon (guess that was rhetorical).     

I grabbed multiple Samsonite pieces for what I perceived to be a good deal.   Albeit this was a couple years ago and over the span of a few weeks.  

For the price, I’m looking at (buying) the Rolling Thunder line from the North Face. I’ve got member points that bring the pricing down a little. Gonna examine and return if I don’t like what we see. 

I’ve been eyeing those for a couple of years I’ve got some about 15 year old samsonites that just won’t give it up but zippers and such are starting to go.  

GrateEggspectations

Finally bought a nice speaker cabinet to match my original 1973 Marshall JMP 1917 PA 20. Love the gold and black. Matches my Black Beauty, too. Now I just have to offload the 4x12 that this 1x12 replaces. 🙃

lousubcap

@GrateEggspectations talents that are beyond worthy right there.  Couple that with your wife's musical skills and the union is obvious.  Congrats to you both.  

GrateEggspectations

lousubcap said:

@GrateEggspectations talents that are beyond worthy right there.  Couple that with your wife's musical skills and the union is obvious.  Congrats to you both.  

That’s much too kind. We met studying music just about twenty years ago, but I’m just a poser whereas she’s a real professional.  Something about being lucky but no good fits here.