What prep items did you get recently?

[44man]

The wife had me buy a 3500 watt inverter generator today. I am not really sure why but I figured it wasn’t worth asking why

 

[RFBfromDE]

Recently?

I've had mine since the 80s...

 

[Alan3413]

A bag of testicle razors.

Takes balls to use them

 

[Harrys]

Some USS Constitution Rum bottled by The Tobacco Barn Distillery. This way when the SHTF I will be happy and won't care.

 

[Chat-Bot]

Recently?

I've had mine since the 80s...

Bad taste still alive, but different.

 

[SpruceJPG]

It's a lot more efficient to just run a fan directly off the battery, rather than laundering it through an inverter. Since I've got lots of 20V and 60V Dewalt tools, this fan was a no-brainer. Runs all night and then some on the same battery I'd use for a leaf blower. There are two versions. A slightly more expensive one has an AC port on it for using it with grid power, too.
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I have the Milwaukee M18 version of this, and used it to dry spilled water in the back of an SUV. On a new 5ah non high-output battery, it ran for 13 hours and still had one bar of juice left.

 

[steves1911]

Fed ex just delivered a 10x8 greenhouse. Nothing special just one of the "tent" types but should be enough to grow things like kale and spinach most the winter.

 

[44man]

We got about 2 acres of kale planted and up about 8” at the farm, does that count

 

[steves1911]

We got about 2 acres of kale planted and up about 8” at the farm, does that count

Absolutely

 

[44man]

Absolutely

Cool

Then we got two acres of kale growing lol

And a spot about 100x100 of turnips and two smaller fields of assorted green and for some reason two acres of deer greens to feed the cockroaches, I mean deer

And by the way, I love kale

 

[kstone803]

Cool

Then we got two acres of kale growing lol

And a spot about 100x100 of turnips and two smaller fields of assorted green and for some reason two acres of deer greens to feed the cockroaches, I mean deer

And by the way, I love kale

I waited too long to plant kale, may throw some seed down this week as a hope and prayer. My family devours it.

 

[44man]

I waited too long to plant kale, may throw some seed down this week as a hope and prayer. My family devours it.

Generally getting it from n by sept 15th is best but the old folks always said plant any crop before All Hallows’ Eve and your chances are good for getting a crop

Just use plenty of fertilizer. At least 50 lbs of nitrogen per acre, figured the right way

Good luck

 

[lazarus]

If a box fan draws 80W of power, at 18V that's 4.44A (80W x 18V = 4.44A) then the batteries will last around:

2Ah battery - about 1/2 hour
4Ah battery - about 1 hour
6Ah battery - about 1 1/2 hours
8Ah battery - about 2 hours

I have a decent amount of batteries because each time I get a tool, I try to get it on sale with a free battery. This would also be useful in charging phones and smaller items.

Don’t forget to factor that at 80%. You’ve got inefficiencies in the DC-AC inverter and voltage step up

 

[MigraineMan]

Put the meat grinder to task this weekend, making sausage, ground jerky, and "bacon" from last year's venison harvest from the freezer. Followed the Bearded Butchers' venison bacon recipe/method as best I could, and produced a loaf that I sliced up this evening. Hit 160F with the probe thermometer after baking (was raining outside) for about 5 hours at 175F. Ran it for another hour at 150F just to be sure - might have over-done it a little, but there's about 45% pork butt in the mix. It's a little brittle, buuuttt ....

Took it for a test-fry.

Oh. My. God.

That is absolutely fantastic. Has the mouth feel of scrapple, with a pork-bacon flavor finish. Tested it on Jr, and he gave it an unconditional "Damn, that's great!" Will taste-test with The Wife when she gets home this evening ... she's the acid test.

You could eat it raw, but why would you? Might have to make a VLT sammich out of this.

Om nom nom!

 

[StantonCree]

Oh I’m into that!!!!

I got 10lbs of mule deer

 

[govwontletmebuycoolguns]

Did a ton of yard clean-up and winterizing today. Winterized the boat, and exercised two generators. Used the last of my fuel supply, so re-filled/stabilized 10gal diesel and 35gal gas. Also got two empty propane tanks swapped out while I was at it.

 

[Gordon]

Silicone muffin cups to freeze eggs

 

[pbharvey]

Picked up a bushel of apples in western maryland to grind into apple sauce

 

[Slackdaddy]

Bad taste still alive, but different.

Wrong Thread,,
This post belongs here::

https://www.mdshooters.com/threads/more-transgender-nonsense.255235/page-15#post-6848948

 

[Docster]

Some USS Constitution Rum bottled by The Tobacco Barn Distillery. This way when the SHTF I will be happy and won't care.

I had some 2 yrs back and didn't like it.