forumdotabaco
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I have ideas for kilns but made of scraped pick-up refrigerators like this one
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Now you're talking! One of our members, Chicken, has built a kiln out of a pull behind camper - trailer. Very similar size. If you start a thread I'm sure you'll receive some very good suggestions.
forumdotabaco
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is to soon yet I am just starting, but I have those in mind this one for home use, and something like this
for professional starting until I have enough money to afford one of this ones http://www.bulktobac.com/bulk_cure.html
for professional starting until I have enough money to afford one of this ones http://www.bulktobac.com/bulk_cure.html
Those are very nice looking. Are they for air curing or flue curing? How is your weather for air curing in a wooden barn?
forumdotabaco
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old ship containers that reach the living time end
here where I am right now is the burley zone so air curing in wooden barns will work or rails to
but this is a very small country with lots of sun and near the sea.If I drive 125 miles to the place where I grew up I will be in the flue curing zone, we can do pretty much all kind of bacca here and I am convinced that even in the winter we can raise strings like Montcalm Yellow here, more yet Portugal was an empire before I born and my wife mother grew up in north Angola in Africa and we still won good land there so my plan is to start here and them move there or Mozambique.
here where I am right now is the burley zone so air curing in wooden barns will work or rails to
but this is a very small country with lots of sun and near the sea.If I drive 125 miles to the place where I grew up I will be in the flue curing zone, we can do pretty much all kind of bacca here and I am convinced that even in the winter we can raise strings like Montcalm Yellow here, more yet Portugal was an empire before I born and my wife mother grew up in north Angola in Africa and we still won good land there so my plan is to start here and them move there or Mozambique.
That sounds like a goal worth shooting for. I wish you all the best.
DGBAMA
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That's a lot of POO.
Your patch and pants are looking great.
Your patch and pants are looking great.
Nice patch Knucklehead. I'm really impressed with the ATV, I didn't know it was suitable for using different purposes. You installed various equipments on it easily and it almost turned into a small tractor, very useful.
They are handy. There are plows and mowers that can be pulled behind them also. If I didn't have a tractor, I could do a lot of the work with the ATV and implements made for them.
I'm making good improvements to the patch. I started early enough this year that I will have time to plant Crimson Clover this fall, and by next spring, I hope to have more rotten wood chips and compost to add to the patch. Also by plowing spring and fall, I can eliminate many weeds that get started but will be plowed under before they can go to seed. It's a work in progress.
Izmir is ready for planting. Nice dark green color. Al my seedlings are a bit rinsed light green.
Can you get Epsom Salts? Magnesium Sulfate? A tablespoon per gallon of water will really green them up in about three days.
Half of that flat is Izmir. There is also Bitlis, Visoka Marula, Adiyaman, Duzce, and a Burley in the same tray. They were planted a week later than the others but doing better because they weren't outside when I left the other flats out in the sun too long. Lesson learned.
Just one more reason to purchase whole leaf instead of growing it yourself. Tobacco is a dangerous business. I had five flats on my eastern facing porch to get some morning sun. We're expecting severe thunderstorms today so when it started raining I went to the basement to pull in my plants. I moved two flats into the house and went back out for a third one. I was daydreaming and looking off into the woods. When I turned around I was almost on top of this S.O.B. He was already coiled up and had his head back, looking at me with that look in his eyes that my cat gives me sometimes. I'm still shaking so bad I can barely type. The funny thing is, Lakota and I were chatting this morning and I told him I had not seen a Copperhead since I built this house nine years ago. They were all over the place where I used to live. I can't say that anymore. He is laying directly under where the second tray was. I must have been in striking distance when I grabbed that second flat. He must have been right on the other side of the railing. I doubt if a full minute passed between bringing in the second tray and going out after the third. Mother of Pearl!!!
forumdotabaco
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A cable hanging system would be cheap and easy to do, anyway its a free dinner and a new wallet you have there standing a the ground.
Brown Thumb
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You gonna have him for Dinner?
I hate them with a passion.
I hate them with a passion.
Wallace there is not a hope in Hell that I would move anywhere close to that thing. The hair is standing up on neck just looking at the picture. I would just as soon have it -40 most of the year.
Can you believe we were just talking about them this morning? That's freaky. My hair was mostly brown thirty minutes ago, now it's white as snow all over. lol
A cable hanging system would be cheap and easy to do, anyway its a free dinner and a new wallet you have there standing a the ground.
I found a new way to bend metal electrical conduit. It was in a U shape when I got through slapping that snake with it.
Maybe we should talk about bigfoot tomorrow lol
forumdotabaco
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lol bigfoot can be a huge problem, since they will need a lot of tobacco to roll a cigar.
the best thing I ever ate was snake, probably they could be different in taste from specie to specie not sure about that.
I've ate snake at least twice in my all life and I never forgot how good they taste, I don't know how to cook them, I just know that you must remove around 15 cm from the tail and more 15 cm from the head, and I remember that once cleaned they look like fish but the taste like meat.
the best advise would be to read something about his natural predators and see what you can safely do
the best thing I ever ate was snake, probably they could be different in taste from specie to specie not sure about that.
I've ate snake at least twice in my all life and I never forgot how good they taste, I don't know how to cook them, I just know that you must remove around 15 cm from the tail and more 15 cm from the head, and I remember that once cleaned they look like fish but the taste like meat.
the best advise would be to read something about his natural predators and see what you can safely do
Poor critter. It too was just trying to get some morning sun. Think of all the extra rodents you'll have this summer. But a new wallet is a great idea.
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