smitty55

On 12/23/2020 at 5:21 PM, Pigeontroller said:

Doctor Steven Cooke at Carlton U did a study on the pop on bleeding gills thing promoted by MCI member and Guide John Anderson. It showed no real benefits to doing it.

I remember reading that and I if I recall they actually recommended not even trying it as it may do more harm than good.

Words of wisdom there Andrew. Merry Christmas to You, Bren and the rest of the gang. I haven't seen Summer for a good while now, is she off at school? Btw, I had to chuckle when reading about dealing with the bugs and crap bug spray. So I figure I can help you out with that for next spring. I'm more than willing to donate a 4oz spray pump of MaxiDeet at 98%. My sis in the US sent me up a box and I have more than I will ever use. We're maybe 20 min apart, you could even send the boss over sometime this winter.
Cheers man

LMAO that is great and likely not that far from the truth in years to come.

5 hours ago, jonasdry said:

You should be able to find a pressure canner at almost any second hand/thrift shop. If you are on the budget look for a presto. If you are dumb like me I bought and All American 925.

 

A pressure cooker maybe, but pressure canners are far more scarce, not that many folks actually use them. Plus right off the bat many are just plain scared to use a pressure cooker even, I know my wife is. I've never seen a pressure canner at a thrift shop and rarely a pressure cooker even. But you never know.

I'll just leave this here. Medical common sense, not fear mongering from big pharma and politicians.

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80% of covid deaths have occurred in people over 80, another 18% in people in their 70s. I don't have the numbers for people in their 60's but basically when you remove deaths that have occurred in LTC facilities the annual flu kills more people each year, including children.

In BC they just admitted that of all the deaths in the province there were only 2 that happened outside of LTC. There's still way too much fear mongering going on.

5 minutes ago, misfish said:

Ah, so this is not what I want then . 

 

Please post what I want to can fish and meat . Hope I can buy local . I will only be using it on the side burner on the BBQ . Not inside the condo . If worse comes to worse, I can drop jars off at Fisherman,s,and pick up later .

 

 

If I was to buy another one this is the one I would get. Presto still makes the top rated ones. More pricey in Canada but it will last forever.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000BYCFU?tag=aboutcom02thespruceeats-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&ascsubtag=4136488|n751a9192676c4effa9deeffdcdaac65420

27 minutes ago, HTHM said:

You might be looking for a pressure canner. My understanding, it's a different animal than a pressure cooker. 

My thoughts exactly, my pressure cooker just has the weight on it that spins whereas my much larger 16 qt 1970's Presto "pressure canner" has the gauge which shows temp and pressure as well as the pressure regulator weight and a small air vent with a sliding plunger that pops up and seals the unit when it's hot enough. It also comes with a rack which will hold 8 jars.

I'm not a fan of them on my little 1 acre of Lanark property, they do way too much damage. Had to take down a 14" maple beside my house after they did some major damage over the course of one day while I was at work. There was a good 20ft spread of wood chips on the driveway.

6 hours ago, floater said:

Thanks for the recipe Smitty55. I will give that a try.

If you like dills you will love these. I had some from 2017 with lunch yesterday, still nice and crunchy and just the right amount of bite

On 12/6/2020 at 7:07 AM, floater said:

I stated canning this year. I've got over 50 jars of salmon, smoked and plain. I canned some carrots but they are real squishy out of the jar. Did some beets and they are a little firmer than the carrots. Also canned some venison and it turned out great. Still trying to figure out how to eat the venison though. Right out of the jar is OK but I'd like to try and make some dairy free stroganoff. Very easy to can stuff as long as you follow the pressure and time guides. 

Floater if you want to try canning carrots again I highly recommend you try making dilled carrots. They stay crunchy for years, have great dill flavour and are also great with a hot pepper or two in the jar. They turn out best using baby carrots but I've used full sized ones too cut into spears. Easy to make as well and the recipe is per jar so you can make as many as you want at a time. Here's the recipe from the Jean Pare Company's Coming preserves book.

Dilled carrots- double recipe  for quart jars
head of dill, 1 per pint (more if you like)
small clove of garlic, 1 per pint (I use way more lol)
baby carrots or large ones cut into fingers, to fill 1 pint

Hot peppers 1 per pint, two for quarts
pickling salt, 1 Tbsp. per pint
1/3 cup boiling white vinegar per pint
Boiling water, to fill jar

In a bottom of a hot sterilized pint jar, place head of dill and garlic. Fill with carrot sticks to within 1 inch of the top.
Measure salt over carrots . Add vinegar. Fill with water to within 1/2 inch of top.
Place sterilized metal lid on jar and screw metal band on finger tight only. Process in a boiling bath for 20 minutes Let stand 6 weeks before serving.

12 hours ago, aplumma said:

This has been replaced by a Sabinki rig which is 6 small hooks with mylar as the bait. We use them to catch bait. 

Art

Those Sabiki rigs wouldn't be legal here without removing two of the hooks. I know a guy that has used them for herring but he said they're a pain to use as the tend to get all tangled up.

Bottom depth finder for ice fishing was my first thought. Easy to spot when it reaches the surface when a good distance away as you walk back.

5 hours ago, irishfield said:

The new owners of Loon will take great care of you!

BUT, I can't stress it enough to you, other than the packed trail to Loon's huts.. DO NOT even think about travelling on the lake at night.

 

Blue coloured firefox spoon seems to be a treat for Pickeral..

I take it you've met Adam, and his family. He did a bang up job on White Lake for the dozen years he was there after his dad bought Cedar Cove resort and creating Adams Outfitters and building it up bigger and better each year. Last three years he ran a derby for charity. His new bungalows I believe were relocated to Loon lodge a week ago. Not sure what the previous owners had for shacks.
https://www.facebook.com/adamsoutfitting/

When you speak of not going off the roads at night is it because of sketchy ice in some areas or is it more related to pressure cracks and ridges?

Cheers

4 hours ago, LeXXington said:

I am not as fast as the others, I burn more gas but I have never got stuck.

I plow my driveway when not ice fishing.

If I went fishing more I would love to have a sled but get the best bang for the buck with my machine

That's the cat's arse for sure. With a regular quad no matter how good the tires are and how much power it has if you get the frame hung up you are stuck. Same with a 4x4 truck. Out of curiosity, have you ever deliberately tried to get it stuck like in a deep drift just to see if you could?

Watched Dark Waters with Wifey last week, pretty decent movie.

11 hours ago, Big Cliff said:

Excellent idea, i often use leftover  bread to make stuffing then vac seal and freeze it. I will have to try smoking it first. Thanks for the idea.

It's so good as bread crumbs Cliff. Those were 3 1lb loaves and we got 12 cups, cost me $2.25 lol. In the last two weeks we had used them on a baked mac n cheese, chicken legs, and in a meat loaf, it dresses up any dish. I have a couple of spice rubs that I made up to use for meat in my smoker but they have now been getting regular use in the kitchen. They work great mixed in with the bread crumbs too. Both those blends contain a good amount of my own smoked paprika, when I start running low I'll buy it bulk and put 2 or 3 pie pans full in the smoker while I've got a batch of whatever going. It gets plenty of use in the kitchen too, it was so good on the potato salad last week. One other thing I've done is smoked coarse salt, again in a pie plate, it takes on a nice gold colour and is so nice and unexpected coming out of a grinder, think tomatoes ,cukes, corn on the cob, mashed taters, the list is endless and it enhances them all I find. Next thing I'm going to try is a good amount of red peppercorns I have in excess, they keep clogging up my grinders even with 80% good black as they're quite soft. All I use is coarse fresh ground pink salt anymore except for pickling and brining so I'll try that in the smoker too, maybe even some black peppercorns just because, hehe.

Cheers
 

Sometimes it's the simplest things that are the most enjoyable. Last week I picked up three loaves of half price fresh bread from the reduced rack. Yesterday they got cut up into big chunks and into the Big Chief for 4 hours and 4 half full pans of pellets. Then they go into the food processor and we get a good pile of smoked bread crumbs that we use a lot for many dishes, there is no comparison to store bought. We separate into bags and freeze them, they keep very well. Here's what they look like coming out of the smoker, the kitchen smells great.

23 minutes ago, Loonietoon said:

Thank you sir, will check that out. Wonder why no one was ever told of this

I got a letter in the mail about the changes forthcoming. If you want to go back to time of use then do nothing

On 10/15/2020 at 5:26 PM, BillM said:

I just do my sticker online, I haven't gone into the MTO for anything for quite a while.  

I did mine online last Tuesday and got it in the mail yesterday, can't argue with that for good service.

2 hours ago, akaShag said:

Amazing indeed.

But WAYYYYYYYY too many veggies on that plate!  😉

Doug

LMAO

Right on, did you sit on any spots for the evening fish or was it all trolling?

Great sunrise pic btw, got the lake level too. It would be a good print.

Cheers

I agree Dan, my first choice would be a full replacement, I had my 2001 Sierra done a couple of years back and it was $850. Money well spent in the long run and with the newer alloy tubing it will last as long as the truck easily.  As with any old vehicle there always comes a time to decide when to stop putting putting coin into the old boat. In this case the car is still in pretty good shape, even the rockers are still good, and I do like my big Buicks  ever since my first LeSabre back in the 80's. Actually a lot of the brake lines still look pretty good, I Krown it each year, but of course the leak is right where the clip is holding the pair running to the rear under my arse along a straight run. So I get it for sure, those lines are 25 years old, moving them around too much could be asking for trouble, but in this case it would involve minor line movement to plug in a properly flared patch line.  But yea I get it when it comes to shops being worried about liability.

Cheers

Tks again Dan, that schematic is handy to have. Like Lew said you're a good man. I agree that there is power available to the parking and headlights as I can turn them on with the switches when the car is off. I still can't see how the running lights come on when the twilight sentinel is in the off position as that should be an open circuit to the AL Sensor. I'm definitely leaning toward the chance that there was some sort of skewed input from one or more switches as they hadn't been used since I got the car. Also since I worked the hell out of them yesterday I have had no issue with the running lights coming on. Again today I worked them to try and get a failure and no go, all is good except for them coming on when the sentinel switch is in the off position.  So far so good.
Now I need to find a shop that will do a brake line repair instead of a replacement for the time being. One  place said it was illegal to do so, first time I ever heard of that.

Cheers

Tks guys. I haven't solved the mystery yet but I'm to the point where it isn't doing it for now at least

OF that guys soldering technique leaves a lot to be desired. Soon as I saw the soldering iron I was like what the hell, the tip isn't even properly tinned, it should be shiny silver color. Sure enough you can see there was no heat transfer, it wouldn't even melt the solder on that resistor thruhole so he could use the solder sucker on it. Solder wick would have helped at least it has some flux in it. Speaking of flux I never saw him use any when he replaced the resistor, or specially when he touched up that heated pin joint at the end of the board. That would be a fail on any soldering test for sure. But he did fix it so I give him that.

Dan I appreciate the offer, tks man. I highly doubt that MFS is at fault here, all functions on it work fine including the brights switch. For that matter all normal light related functions work fine including including warning beeps when I have the door open and the running lights or parking lights are switched on. So today I hooked the battery back up and the issue was still there and chronic so I went through the regimen again of thoroughly working all switches and sliders  related to the lights. I've had this car for 6 years now and these switches and pots have never been used, so that's never a good thing.  Well go figure I'm working the hell out of the headlight switch on the door while watching the headlamps. First time I hit it the headlights come on full, then next push lights are off. 10 seconds later daytime running lights come on and stay on, I didn't bother waiting to see if it would still cycle and I started working the headlamp door switch like 40 times and the twilight sentinel slider and it stopped happening. Then I noticed that if I put the Twilight Sentinel to the unmarked off position the running lights would come on again, like what the hell, but if I turned it on past the very light detent I could hear a relay click in the dash and the headlights would go off. After a couple of hours I went for a drive to work the brakes and came back and it happened again for a bit but again by working the two door switches and the sentinel system slider position I'm now close to 12 hours with no issues. It's not fixed yet, but at least a step in the right direction. There is one thing that stands out to me in all this, there is no way that that turning the twilight sentinel to off should turn on running lights with the ignition off. That symptom in itself points to the sensor system as the likely culprit. It could well be related to a high resistance contact somewhere too, not a component failure. Saying this, I can't see how a lighting system with no switches on would even have access to power with the ignition off in the first place, we're not talking dome lights here.
Cheers