This weeks preps check-in

[tmttactical]

What...and take all the fun out of getting up at 3 am to stoke the fire?

No problem at our house. I would stoke it just before going to bed (2 A.M.) and wife can take over when she gets up at 6 A.M. Got it covered.

 

[Mountain trapper]

No problem at our house. I would stoke it just before going to bed (2 A.M.) and wife can take over when she gets up at 6 A.M. Got it covered.

Nice. When my wife is home on R&R she doesn't even know what 6 am looks like. Of course when she's at work she works 7 days a week 6-6.

 

[Dani]

I moved from urban Arizona to rural Idaho last July, just in time for all the fruit trees on our 'new' (house built in 1916) property to fruit. We spent about two hours a day canning (for the first time) and another six hours re-doing two of the rooms (in addition to paying for the pasture fencing, re-piping the entire house, and extending AC power to the outbuildings). Now the house is livable, the garden has been double-dug, and we're catching our breath until January, when we start pruning the overgrown fruit trees.
We converted a bedroom adjacent to the (tiny) kitchen into a 15' X 8' pantry. putting in a laundry sink, and shelving. This week, we built an enclosure for a single burner propane stove for our next year's canning.

@Duncan CongratuLations on the move! It sounds like it is a good one. Sorry I'm playing catch up here. You and your wife are going to love having that walk in pantry so close to the kitchen and it's great that you have already jumped into canning what is producing on your new property.

 

[Brent S]

I got 7 more #10 cans of freeze dried foods and an ammo can full of 308 rounds this week. Still going forwards with the prepping, but wish I had more free time to work on projects around here. I half jokingly tell people that I’m gathering supplies to supply whatever overwhelming force takes over after shtf.....

 

[Maverick]

Picked up 6 American Eagle .22lrhp 500rnd bricks $14.99ea and 2 cans 420rnds each of Federal's NATO XM855 on stripper clips w/spoon for $99.99 each at our local co-op yesterday.

 

[Brent S]

I just got a book from amazon on edible plants of the southeast. Figured a good hard copy with pictures was a good idea. Hope to never need to use it though!

 

[Mountain trapper]

Went to the feed store today. On the way home it was stop and go traffic. This time of year the wild turkeys like to hang out on the roads stoping traffic. Some of the turkey herds had well over a hundred birds.

 

[jimLE]

I wonder how many ppl bag a turkey with the vehicle. .then keep it. .

 

[Mountain trapper]

I wonder how many ppl bag a turkey with the vehicle. .then keep it. .

While I was waiting for the turkeys to cross the road a guy pulled up and opened his door. A couple turkeys almost got inside with him. Turkeys aren't hard to hunt around here.

 

[tmttactical]

While I was waiting for the turkeys to cross the road a guy pulled up and opened his door. A couple turkeys almost got inside with him. Turkeys aren't hard to hunt around here.

I like it when dinner will jump into the car.

 

[jimLE]

Well i finally got 9-1 gallon jugs of water.in which i should of done before now..already had a full unopened thing of instant coffee. But went ahead and got another one.on account i prefer instant during campouts and power outages seeing how that's when i use my 8 cup stove top percolator.

 

[jayjay1]

Cleaned out my shed, sorted out some gear I kept there, at least it's all in some order now.

Also, after watching a heap of youtube videos, I've planted out a heap of ginger, tumeric, as well as Apricot, Mango & Pawpaw seeds.
Guess I'll see how they go.

 

[Proud Prepper]

This past weekend, practiced my hunting skills at the deer camp. Killed a 6 point and my son killed a another 6 point. Started a fire with the magnifying glass and another with flint n steel when it was overcast. I practiced skinning 2 deers while showing my youngest how its done, he has seen it done before, but this time he had tell me what to do for each step. Overall a fun productive weekend. We are heading home today. Graphic pics follow

 

[Dani]

View attachment 9286 This past weekend, practiced my hunting skills at the deer camp. Killed a 6 point and my son killed a another 6 point. Started a fire with the magnifying glass and another with flint n steel when it was overcast. I practiced skinning 2 deers while showing my youngest how its done, he has seen it done before, but this time he had tell me what to do for each step. Overall a fun productive weekend. We are heading home today. Graphic pics follow






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Sounds like it was a great weekend. Are you processing yourselves?

 

[Proud Prepper]

Sounds like it was a great weekend. Are you processing yourselves?

It was a great weekend, yes we process it ourselves. How could I call myself a prepper if I didn't? you have to know how to process everything from chipmunks to horse, lol

 

[Dani]

It was a great weekend, yes we process it ourselves. How could I call myself a prepper if I didn't? you have to know how to process everything from chipmunks to horse, lol

Hey you just never know. We process deer and anything below in poundage ourselves too. The cows we take in to have someone else do it. I knew a so called prepper who took his chickens in to get butchered. I found that kind of funny.

 

[tmttactical]

It was a great weekend, yes we process it ourselves. How could I call myself a prepper if I didn't? you have to know how to process everything from chipmunks to horse, lol

Can I start with the Chipmunks, pretty please?

 

[Proud Prepper]

Can I start with the Chipmunks, pretty please?

If they where not so furry, I'd just eat the whole..

 

[KateMTx]

It was a great weekend, yes we process it ourselves. How could I call myself a prepper if I didn't? you have to know how to process everything from chipmunks to horse, lol

If it's anything other than a fish I get someone else to do it. Maybe I need to learn at some point.

 

[tmttactical]

If it's anything other than a fish I get someone else to do it. Maybe I need to learn at some point.

Hey, don't look at me, I am still working on the chipmunks.

 

[Duncan]

@Duncan CongratuLations on the move! It sounds like it is a good one. Sorry I'm playing catch up here. You and your wife are going to love having that walk in pantry so close to the kitchen and it's great that you have already jumped into canning what is producing on your new property.

Thank you for your kind words! Having come here too late to do anything besides harvest fruit, we figured that rebuilding the garden for deep beds rather than the previous owner's row garden would be all we had to do until planting season. Not so! We have so many little fix-up chores -- in addition to building a 12 X 16 foot goat-shed -- that we're just as busy as ever, and hope we can get everything done in time to start the seedlings indoors.
Hopefully, by this time next year, we'll be a lot more ready and will have some time to relax over the winter.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Hey you just never know. We process deer and anything below in poundage ourselves too. The cows we take in to have someone else do it. I knew a so called prepper who took his chickens in to get butchered. I found that kind of funny.

Hey Danilgrl I resemble that remark. I took our meat chickens in for processing. Mainly because we're not set up to process our own yet.

 

[DrHenley]

The only time I have someone process deer is to make sausage. I've made my own sausage but the place I take it makes much better sausage than I do, and can process a lot more at a time than I can. I just got a half a freezer full last week from the hindquarters on a big buck. No way I could smoke that much sausage at once.

But other than that, I do all my own processing.

 

[Brent S]

When I was cleaning the rabbits I raised I never really got used to the killing part. I did it, but can’t say I ever felt good or even at ease with it. The cleaning was pretty straight forwards though. I did a thread about it ages ago here with pictures of the process. So far that’s the biggest thing I’ve done. I could definitely see taking a cow or other large animal to be done professionally though. To set up a place just to handle the size and weight would take a lot of investment.

 

[Brent S]

My office is starting to take shape! I still have lots of bookshelves from the free cabinets I got recently to bring in too. It will really be nice to finish the flooring as my knees don’t like this kind of work much anymore! Halfway done on that part now.

 

[tmttactical]

Beautiful cabinets and what a great price, free. I do understand the knee issue. Both of mine are shot. Working on my knees makes for very bad next day. It is looking good, can't wait to see the finished product.

 

[Dani]

Hey you just never know. We process deer and anything below in poundage ourselves too. The cows we take in to have someone else do it. I knew a so called 0430034 who took his chickens in to get butchered. I found that kind of funny.

Hey Danilgrl I resemble that remark. I took our meat chickens in for processing. Mainly because we're not set up to process our own yet.

I had to bust out laughing. I didn't even have you in mind but now that You mentioned it, that does ring a bell.

 

[Dani]

Actually I knew a guy who had a portable butcher shop on wheels. He would go around the county to butcher people's animals for them.

 

[Dani]

Thank you for your kind words! Having come here too late to do anything besides harvest fruit, we figured that rebuilding the garden for deep beds rather than the previous owner's row garden would be all we had to do until planting season. Not so! We have so many little fix-up chores -- in addition to building a 12 X 16 foot goat-shed -- that we're just as busy as ever, and hope we can get everything done in time to start the seedlings indoors.
Hopefully, by this time next year, we'll be a lot more ready and will have some time to relax over the winter.

That is always the case. You live at a new place for a little bit and you figure out rather quickly what works, what doesn't and what you want to make diffwrent. I guess we were lucky when we moved here. It was basically a clean slate. Except for the houses and a shop everything else has been added.

When we did our goat barn we used refurbished galvanized tin for the roof and siding. When we put up the addition we used old garage door panels. If you have a place near you that sells garage doors, talk to them about getting the old panels. They will most likely let you have them for what they get from the scrape metal yard. Here it was $8 a panel and I think they were 12 ft long. They hold up well with high winds like a hurricanes if they are wind rated. Even put in the windowed panels on each end to let light in.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Actually I knew a guy who had a portable butcher shop on wheels. He would go around the county to butcher people's animals for them.

We have a farm kill truck come up to butcher our pigs. My brother in law has a farm kill truck too but he lives in another State.
Eventually I plan on building a small butcher shop for processing the chickens and wild game. For the pigs and beef I'll call the guy.