High fuel cost and wood

[sea2summit]

Why the hate? It is all about perspective I guess. I have been loving him since I bought stock in 2009.

Hate is a strong word, used for comparison. I just never saw anything to admire I guess is a better way of saying it.

 

[sea2summit]

Do you know why?

Sure don’t. I’m sure it would be very expensive meat, not sure how much food a horse eats before maturity compared to beef.

 

[51allis]

I was supposed to buy a mid-sized PU Truck this year. But given the gas prices, decided to just hang on and put money into the aging Festiva. I'm starting to get unsolicited cash offers for it, once a week now, some verbally and some notes on the windscreen.
For my usual wood projects, I'm lucky in the sense that there is a local wood salvage yard. Its not well organized, but with a bit of time looking around, I can usually find what I need at 1/3 cost of the usual lumber yards. The most difficult part is protecting my collected pile from other people.
My "go to" retail wood is now un-gauged cedar fencing boards. These are still relatively inexpensive, yet they take a lot of work to make them square/dimensional and useful for things other than fencing. I've also started to go straight to some of the local saw mills that have started to sell direct to the public on stuff they can't market to the big box stores. And again, this type of wood isn't completely finished, so it takes extra work to make the wood usable. Every little bit of scrape goes in to the wood stove for heating

good wood never goes to waste.

 

[51allis]

Why It's Almost Impossible To Find Horse Meat In The U.S. - Mashed

Why is horse meat not for sale in the United States? After all, it's not illegal to eat. If you want to slaughter a horse, turn it into steaks, sashimi, or sausage, and serve it to friends and family, that's your business. Here's the problem.

www.mashed.com

So basically, its like deer meat, you gotta kill it and butcher it on your own, no inspection etc. so thats why it cannot be sold. Someday.....someday Im gonna try me some horse and groundhog....

 

[Jstpssng]

Sure don’t. I’m sure it would be very expensive meat, not sure how much food a horse eats before maturity compared to beef.

There was a time back in the '70s when beef got expensive, and horse meat was being sold as an inexpensive alternative. I'm not sure where it came from, but I am certain that we never tried it.

 

[sea2summit]

There was a time back in the '70s when beef got expensive, and horse meat was being sold as an inexpensive alternative. I'm not sure where it came from, but I am certain that we never tried it.

And before that…this has actually been my avatar on another site for years

 

[tjandrews]

So basically, its like deer meat, you gotta kill it and butcher it on your own, no inspection etc. so thats why it cannot be sold. Someday.....someday Im gonna try me some horse and groundhog....

Back in the days when my parents owned the farm, Dad had a night job as a machinist to make things meet. But that job would be subject to periodic layoffs depending on how the company's sales were going. When Dad was laid off he couldn't collect unemployment insurance because he was also working the farm, so things would get tight from time to time. We grew and put up our own vegetables, but buying meat was a problem, especially when inflation was in the double digits. So, we have been known to march a heifer around to the back of the barn, dispatch it with a shotgun slug, and process it ourselves.
There were times when we didn't have much money, but we ate very well, anyway. It's a poor farmer that lets his family go hungry.

 

[51allis]

And before that…this has actually been my avatar on another site for years

Back in the days when my parents owned the farm, Dad had a night job as a machinist to make things meet. But that job would be subject to periodic layoffs depending on how the company's sales were going. When Dad was laid off he couldn't collect unemployment insurance because he was also working the farm, so things would get tight from time to time. We grew and put up our own vegetables, but buying meat was a problem, especially when inflation was in the double digits. So, we have been known to march a heifer around to the back of the barn, dispatch it with a shotgun slug, and process it ourselves.
There were times when we didn't have much money, but we ate very well, anyway. It's a poor farmer that lets his family go hungry.

Now that would be a good skill/knowledge to have, in today's world most barely know how to cut up meat as it comes from the store let alone try to butcher an animal properly. I know cows gotta hang for a certain amount of time before butchering etc. but someday Im going to volunteer to work at a butcher shop just to learn the basics of cow/pig/big animal butchering, I do my own small game and deer processing including canned venison, which is my absolute favorite way to process the venison. Many people would never want to experience being "poor" money wise like you had to, but to me I would have been satisfied. I think we, as a people, have "advanced" to a point where its more a hassel than its worth but thats a long discussion hahaha. Lets just say I envy the Amish, not so much as their religious beliefs but the way they live, some have not changed the way they do things for over 75 years...but they eat really good wholesome food, they work hard and that's a form of physical fitness, most are very healthy and the cancer rates are probably extremely low etc. they don't rely on the Gov't for handouts etc. and if/when SHTF they will be that one group that knows how to survive without. I look at the way they live as the ultimate "green" and in harmony with the earth, but its not easy to do a life like that, unless you actually prepare ahead of time and have the funds to make sure you are debt free before experimenting in that way of life.

 

[Flad]

Hi' The reason we have these high fuel costs is not based on a shortage ,supply problems or the usual greed of oil producers it's got to do with human nature, quite simply the fear of the possibility of all out war, the cost is a measure to prevent Hording and there is no better way to stop hording than vastly increasing fuel costs.
If any one doubts this cast your minds back to the 70s when there were real shortages prices were only slightly higher and fuel was rationed with long ques to get a few litres before service stations ran out of fuel, Small car sales boomed how ever that lesson was soon forgotten, diesels became the way to go for most commercial transport.
Then there was the most Pointless dumbest most insane hording of toilet paper started by some nut case in the recent pandemic, and that's all it takes is some dooms day nut case, to get on the net and spread fear to get people pannick buying.

Sure there is a real threat to the stability of us all, but it's mostly by home grown nut cases with access to the media, these sky high fuel prices are to protect us from our selves and will be hear for a long time in to the future.

 

[sea2summit]

Back in the days when my parents owned the farm, Dad had a night job as a machinist to make things meet. But that job would be subject to periodic layoffs depending on how the company's sales were going. When Dad was laid off he couldn't collect unemployment insurance because he was also working the farm, so things would get tight from time to time. We grew and put up our own vegetables, but buying meat was a problem, especially when inflation was in the double digits. So, we have been known to march a heifer around to the back of the barn, dispatch it with a shotgun slug, and process it ourselves.
There were times when we didn't have much money, but we ate very well, anyway. It's a poor farmer that lets his family go hungry.

What's your age range if you don't mind? Can't say it enough, folks don't realize how recent story's like this are, and how they need to know the lessons.