High fuel cost and wood

[tjandrews]

Really, I've never thought of it being illegal, most horse people will tell you it is illegal when it isn't. BUT I gotta ask, what does horse taste like??? Ive had deer, beef, squirrel, porkepine, and goose. I couldn't stand goose or porkepine, but the others were tasty.

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

 

[Doughknob]

I hated that dude until last year, suddenly he's making a lot of sense in the things he says. I must be getting senile.

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

 

[sunandsand]

If you want a treat, see if anyone is still raising emu. Big, stupid, dangerous birds, but oh so tasty!

Best Regards,

Mike/Florida

 

[Doughknob]

Illegal to eat horse in a lot of states, ........

Do you know why?

 

[OzarkChris]

Everyone is seeing rocketing fuel costs I guess. Here diesel has gone to $ 2.10 per litre Canadian. That translates to $6.72 per US gallon if I am right on my calculation. Highest ever seen.
My necessary work I will just have to absorb the cost. But I also produce a modest amount of firewood I sell to the neighbourhood. I will have to jack my price but hate to. Been checking the market and so far no one is moving from last year price which has been steady for a few years. And we don't know if the fuel cost will return back down soon.
Just wondering how everyone is handling these times and how price is affecting you. Wood or anytinng else.

Keep firewood same price and do like the trucking companies do and charge a fuel surcharge. Modify surcharge up/down according to fuel cost.

 

[OzarkChris]

I am currently building a new smaller retirement home, planning on using propane for boiler baseboard heat/stove/dryer. But I also have an EPA woodstove (works good when no power etc. can even warm up food on it). Im weighing the possibility of making my own smaller wood boiler as a means to take over the primary propane boiler, its scary when you watch the news how our political establishment is just out to kill anything that is using oil and force people to use electric. Before I go to an electric boiler, ill def. make a wood one instead. Seen so many get rid of their woodstoves these past few years...with the recent power outage due to ice storm and cost of petroleum based heat (including nat. gas), I bet a lot of them wished they kept their woodstove.

Your wood stove will be next. Regardless if EPA or not. If it isn't the nutsy socialist environment folks it'll be the tree huggers.

Don't forget to put your cows in plastic bubbles, wouldn't want their farts to cause the end of the world someday!

 

[dodge man]

We had geothermal installed a few years ago but I still use our fireplace. Unless it’s really cold out the furnace won’t hardly run.

 

[JasperFrank]

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.

 

[OzarkChris]

Really, I've never thought of it being illegal, most horse people will tell you it is illegal when it isn't. BUT I gotta ask, what does horse taste like??? Ive had deer, beef, squirrel, porkepine, and goose. I couldn't stand goose or porkepine, but the others were tasty.

I've eaten quite a bit of horse meat in my life (in various countries). To me, it tastes like lean beef, not gamey at all. If anything it "might" be just a bit sweeter than beef, but if do just a bit.

On the porcupine, you probably didn't remove the scent gland from the armpits. Makes it really gamey. Too bad you haven't had groundhog, horse is simular but much, much more tender. In the bordertowns of Mexico, the will sell "Filet Mignon" that is the size of a small platter (yes, it's horse). Just as tender, bacon wrap gives it some fat and covers the sweetness (if it has any). Hope this helps.

 

[OzarkChris]

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.

Those are good boards and still somewhat cheap down here too. I also use the round edged "landscape" boards for posts, "almost" 4x4's etc. HD, still selling the 8 footers here for ~$4-5 ea. If I need to, I'll run then through the planer to make them "pretty".