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Hit 203. 3 Hours on smoke with smoke tube 3.5 hours at 225 2 hours at 275 .5 at 300 .5 at 325 Broiled the top for a few minutes just to crisp it up a little. Resting now. Will eat in about 20 minutes. I'm not waiting until 8

164, lol. I put a remote thermometer in there. I also turned up the temp 25 degrees. I still need to finish hot too and I want some rest. Sheesh, it's gonna be midnight. Looking good.

I like the bark better when wrapped with butcher paper but I've powered through as well but only on smaller briskets. I'm 6 hours in on my ribs, going to check temp in 15 minutes and probably pull for rest. I suspect I'm 200ish.

So it's on the smoker since 10:30. Smoke tube in as well. I use Applewood. My wife doesn't like the strong flavors, specially of Mesquite so I have to stick to fruitwoods. I'll probably get some Cherry if I can find it locally. I've got 3 bags of Apple left, so I've got a ways to go yet. Round about 1:30, I'll foil wrap and crank up to 225 until 5ish and see where I'm at. Oh and I trimmed all the silverskin and other BS off. The first pic is untrimmed.

I will finish prep them in the morning, so I'll take some pics then. They are all wrapped up tight at the moment. Any tips on these? I've baked them before, but that was just put in oven, wrapped. Take out, eat.

I'm smoking 6lb of beef short ribs. First shot at these. I'll probably do a variant of 3-2-1 pork ribs. 3 hours in the smoker on smoke setting with additional smoke tube. I'll use my Salt pepper and onion. This runs about 170 degrees. 3 hours wrapped at 225(or until it hits temp) . In the foil I'll be adding brown sugar, BBQ sauce and maple syrup.(We make Maple syrup and always have bottles of it). I think it's going to take longer than 3 hours to hit temp, these are some real bronto bones I picked up. Fred Flintstone would be proud. Finish on the grill or maybe in the broiler just to crisp it up a little.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

We only unload trailer with electric hand jacks and shorts get one side at a time. We had a shorty trailer with some very heavy pallets of knives that was sitting forward of the front landing gear. They unloaded the trailer from back to front of course and right about the time the back wheel of the forklift was on the dock the trailer flipped up. The fork truck came off, the front wheels came off the dock and it all got wedged right at the dock halfway under the trailer. fortunately, the forklift didn't wind up on the pavement. We were able to winch it back up onto the dock then winch the trailer down until it could get lightened.

Nice piece of equipment. I wish I had 4 of them.

Thanks, it would be great to have a guy that wants some occasional work. I used to use the propane Hysters around 6k lift at the wood mill/cabinet shop I worked at. We had an auto and a manual drive. One was two stage, the other three. Outside, wheels. I got pretty good at it but I haven't used one around here in a long time. I am certified on the scissor jacks, man lifts, forklifts though. The tops of our racks are at 18 feet, so nothing goes higher than that since the beams are bit lower.

It's an on the side thing. We don't need repairs constantly, but we do need 'em. He can even come look at the stuff. Some older crown lifts mostly. We're in Maywood NJ.

We have/had a forklift guy but he's a constant no-show. Know of anyone that does that kind of thing? We have 4 stand up and two sit down type forklifts/Hi0lo and 8 so electric jacks. Everything will need serviced at one point or another. Thanks.

I'm a lefty. My favorite two guns are both H&Ks. No special configurations necessary. I do have other guns that are "righty" and you learn how to send the slide forward into battery with different fingers or your other hand. A VP9 is a great first gun. Very reliable and ambidextrous.

That's ok, at the time it was was worth about $15k. I got it for 5k. The footnote is that I got it all back anyway when she passed.

Maybe I can cover my ears so I don't hear it?

Maybe a little WD40 on those bolts to get 'em out? I'm going to sawszall/grind them out. I already bought the parts. 8 bolts, 4 on each side. $89.00

So I bought this 2004 Ram 2500 from my Mom in 2011. It had 61k miles on it. I got it pretty cheap at the time. It currently has 65k miles on it. It sits, a lot. I plow a little with it, I haul stone, and plywood. That's about it. I came back from picking up some sand yesterday and as I was backing in, this really loud noise was heard from the right front end. So I took a look inside the right front. LOL. The lower one is disconnected too, but it's up in the joint. The body is still pretty nice...it's just dissolving down below. I've replaced all the brakes, lines, calipers, fuel rail, power steering pump hoses, coils, plugs, on and on. If something can rust on this thing, it has.

Looking at the probability map, the chances for tropical wind speeds in NJ is about 10-20 percent depending on where in NJ. This is pretty low, so I wouldn't expect another storm like we saw a few weeks back. It will be breezy and rainy. It may pick up some energy one it gets back over water and heads to the NE and runs up to Cape Cod.

I can only tell you what I have at my place, but I have a high pressure propane line from the Propane tank to the regulator that goes into the house and the same high pressure line has a T that then goes to my standby Generator which also has its own regulator. On a Nat Gas, you're probably low pressure from the main regulator so you'd need a big pipe and bigger than standard regulator.

You could just mount each caliber in a cabinet sitting on 4 wheatstone bridges. Once you figure out out the single bullet weight, you can get an accurate count. You could then also pop in a raspberry Pi module that uploads the data and it could alert you of pilferage.

Glad you had fun. I have never done all 6 in a day, but when we used to have NJGF gatherings up there, we'd hit everything else but Archery. Those tended to be long days, but fun! Thanks for the notice on the free guest. I've got a friend I want to bring up but he's always busy, this might be the ticket to make him to be less busy.

The bottom line is that ALL those factors would have to accounted for or you just go to a bigger tank where if even every value is at a minimum there is _STILL_ sufficient available gas for your genset while running at maximum. This is why I posted some posts back that I wished I had insisted on a 1000 gallon propane tank instead of the 500 sitting there now. I know that if my tank is at or below 17% of total capacity AND the temperature is below 20F(actual value about 14F) then my generator cannot run at maximum load. At 0 degrees, it will start starving at 50% load. One final thing of note. When I boil maple sap in the spring time I use a 60,000 BTU burner, all the way at maximum. I exhaust the BBQ grill gas tanks in about 9 hours. If it's cold outside, and it usually is in late Feb and March, the burner will start burning less energetically when the tank gets low. My solution to this problem is to pour boiling water on the propane tank. This will last about 15 minutes and it will be iced over again and running low. Usually about 3 or 4 times doing this and the tank is exhausted.

I don't have a sub, but I just broke their subscription script to read the whole thing. ------------------ Every couple of weeks, Eric Rebels will make a two-hour trip from North Jersey to Eagle Point Gun in Gloucester County in a desperate quest to get ammunition to sell at his gun store. To get a good place on line, he will sleep in his car overnight to be ready when the distributor opens its doors in the morning. Sometimes, Rebels scores and is able to get one to two cases of 9mm bullets (1,000 rounds per case). Other times, he comes back empty handed. In any case, Rebels says these days it is his only option. Not only is ammunition scarce, he notes, but he also has more customers than ever before at County Line Firearms in East Hanover. “There is a nationwide shortage so what you can get you have to go through to get,” Rebels said. Guns store owners around the state say the confluence of the coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest and an upcoming presidential election have created an unprecedented surge in residents seeking to purchase firearms and ammunition. The surge began, they say, when the coronavirus pandemic began devastating the country in March and continued to skyrocket in the aftermath of the protests that followed after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by police in Minneapolis in May. As of August 12, the New Jersey State Police has received nearly 130,000 firearm applications, topping the number of applications the agency received in 2018 and 2019 combined, according to State Police data. The number of applications this year has increased by more than 137% since last year— with more than 4 months left in 2020, according to the agency. Michael D. Anestis, the executive director New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center, is studying the surge in firearm purchases during the pandemic. “A lot of the purchasing is driven by anxiety,” he said, which is not uncommon in times of uncertainty, adding that preliminary data suggests the demand is the highest it has been in decades. “Our culture sort of navigated towards a script where firearms represent safety and a way to protect yourself and your loved ones. If you start to view the world through this anxious lens, it starts to make sense,” he said. “It is a behavior motivated by a desire to feel safe.” States across the country have experienced similar spikes in firearm ownership, creating a burden on the manufacturers to produce more ammunition, gun store owners say. Ammunition shelves at gun stores and shooting ranges are bare, and dealers say they are often unable to meet the growing demand. “There is no product in the country,” said Rick Friedman, who owns RTSP, which operates gun ranges and stores in Randolph and Union. “Until they start producing more and it is hitting the docks, there is just no product to have. It is beyond a dire situation. The country is literally out of ammunition.” “Right now, getting the guns are hard, the ammo is hard,” said Jack Faenza, co-owner of Garden State Armory. “Everything is hard.” Tom Morris III, owner of Eagle Point Gun, said gun store owners line up outside his place every time since he sends out an alert that he has received a shipment of ammunition. “There is not a lack of production,” he said. “They are making as much as they have ever made, but there is a physical limitation to what they can make.” Multiple gun and ammunition manufacturers did not respond to requests for comment, though some of the bigger national brands, like Winchester and Federal Ammunition, have put notices at the top of their websites alerting customers to the shortage. “Like many manufacturers in the shooting sports industry, we are experiencing an extremely high demand for our products. We are continuing to manufacture and ship our high quality products on a daily basis,” the Winchester website says. New Jersey residents can buy ammunition online or in stores with their firearms identification card, although ammunition has not been readily available since March and some online outlets have increased prices as high as 500%, Friedman said. David Rosenthal, vice president of the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners, said 9mm caliber rounds, which are widely popular, are “scarce.” He said if a gun store does have them, it will limit the amount of rounds a customer can buy. “There is 10 times more people looking for the same amount of inventory that manufacturers routinely put out,” Rosenthal said. The pandemic has upended the typical supply chain in the industry, gun store owners said. Friedman said manufacturers have told him they are unable to secure all the parts from around the world to make ammunition or firearms. Friedman said in previous years he would get up to 30 handguns a week to sell. Now, he is lucky to get one or two, he said, adding that it is the first time since he opened his shooting ranges in 2011 that he is not selling certain calibers of ammunition to the public. “You have basically the perfect storm,” Friedman said. “You have the demand and people buying up the current inventory, which happened over the last three months and then couple that with the actual problems with the supply chain, whether it is shipping and getting stuff into the country during the pandemic.” Morris, owner of Eagle Point Gun, said he expects there to be ammunition shortage until at least the 2020 presidential election. He said if President Donald Trump, who is seen as pro-gun, is re-elected he expects the demand will drop as it did in 2016 because firearm owners will ease up on stocking up on inventory and not worry as much about stricter gun control measures being implemented. But until then, Friedman said the situation will remain dire. He said he will continue to contact manufacturers and distributors persistently to find ways to bring limited ammunition and firearms in the store to meet the demand. “Nobody has a magic bullet,” he said. Our journalism needs your support. Please subscribe today to NJ.com.

The only reason I have any idea about it was when I was adding a furnace, previously having just burned firewood, I thought a 350 gallon tank would be enough. The salesman from Eastern Propane said "Your generator needs more surface area to boil off propane than a 350 gallon tank can provide when the tank gets low or it's cold". It led me down a path to figuring out what that actually meant since it never occurred to me that it made any difference. Propane is propane, right? Yeah, sorta. It just behaves different when it's cold and low. As an addendum, when I took chem 1 and 2 in college, I KNEW all this stuff. I'm not sure why my brain turned off when it came to applying it in real life. Temp made sense, I just didn't realize that surface area IN the tank was important.