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You can put most any LED light into a standard light bulb base, IF you get the correct base type. Even a 100 w equivalent LED light doesn't draw enough current to be a overload, or fire, problem. I personally like 5k in the shop as its it like daylight and the wife demands 2700 or 3000 in the...

I got one that runs on wood. It is all filled out here in my blog for you to read through. I want to turn the fire box into two vaulted ovens one on top of each other. Bottom for the smokehouse and top as an wood fired oven. https://archeryrob.wordpress.com/category/smokehouse/ If you do a...

I am in Western Maryland and we do not have a draws here except for bear, and that's a complete cluster. We have bears out here but all the center and Eastern shore people want to hunt them too and put in for tags. Then when they get them they expect everyone else to let them hunt their land out...

Eggs were stored in the basement 63 - 65 degrees. No special hydrometer and i'm not buying one. Temp was verified before putting the eggs in. I fill the 4 troughs with water each week as I see the humidity dropping. It worked perfect last year with one hen, only change was adding a new hen and...

Hens are on layer feed just like last year. Humidity is 60% and temp is 99.9 to 99.8 and eggs tuned in a turner for 18 days and and then set on the screen for the last two plus days. GQF Hova-bator

We put 22 of our dark brahma eggs in the incubator and the oldest was two weeks. Only have 2 breeder hens and trying to build the flock from them. Last year we got over 90% and this time square on 50%. Of 22 eggs we got 11 live birds. 2 eggs never developed and There is 7 down there developed...

Pan lubing? You set the bullets in a pan and melt lube and pour around them until it fills up over all the lube grooves. Let it harden and then you push on the nose of the bullet and it pops out of the lube with the grooves full. Below shows them after popping them out of the lube. These are...

Pan lubing 45 Colt along with some powder coated ones. Had a bit of trouble with powder coat and still messing with that. Lube is 75% rendered deer fat and 25% beeswax. I can't yet tell the difference between shooting bare lubes or PC in the conversion cylinder in the 1858. They all ring the...

Anyone make either of these? I rendered all the fat off a deer the year before last and still had it sitting around. Once strained it preserves rather well warm in a bag in the basement. I made a batch with Beeswax for bullet lubing and 200 45 Colt bullets and I hardly dented it. I got plenty...

It gets as hot as you set the inkbird to be. We start at 95 and lover to 90, 85 and 80 as the birds grow.

I use it in a building and it works just fine. You can do what every you like. I do not like the bulbs as i think they are more of a fire hazard if cracked or broken.

Shot a doe in September and this buck in October he walked right under me and I spined him. Only buck hunted up until Thanksgiving. Then sat out rifle season waiting on my daughter to shoot one and she never did. I'm not making that mistake next year!! Then i got the flu during the two week...

We raised a late season batch and had 10 roosters. My daughter saved one as a spare tire and we culled the other 9. Skinned and boned out and canned as soup or meat. My daughter raved about how soft, juicy and flavorful it was when she cooked it and is waiting to start breeding more this year.

I like the Idea of the PVC cutter Molpet posted. Easy and simple. Cones work but I need several and all the work to setup and store them. Last time I killed 9 roosters in 5 minutes easily. I use a carpenters Hatchet as I have one around for splitting wood to start the smoker. I have some RR...

I got to agree here. The older pressure cookers did not have safety valves. We use the All American 915 and can do 7 quarts or 10 pints in "regular" mouth. Wide jars reduce the amount of jars you can fit in. It has a silicone blow out valve in case of over pressurization. Bakelite is is...