New England B.S. Thread

Oh you jerk. Looking great

 

I'm just assuming I'm getting mine on the camping trip to katahdin in a couple weeks....

 

Thanks bud!

 

My wife's family had/has a tradition of all going to get trees the day after Thanksgiving. They've always lived well into January. We cut our own though, some of the tree farm ones that are precut, you have no idea how long they've been out of water before you get them.

 

You can usually tell by the springy branches and feel of the needles. If they have Been out for a bit, just fresh cut the bottom so the tree will soak up water and let it drink for a few days before throwing lights on it

 

We go to a farm to cut ours too. Blanking on the name of it, it's in Mendon though .

 

If it’s on quissett road, that’s my wife’s grandfather’s place. Has some of the best prices around for cut your own. Has some great ATV trails through his land too.

 

Vandervalk farms, just asked my wife. They have a winery there too.

 

There’s some good spots in Hatfield too

 

Well if they want one of the best available head out to Nantucket for 888 distillery. It's named after public well 888 where they get their water from. They have a whiskey called the notch that beat out scotch and Irish whiskeys in world competition because Nantucket weather is so similar to Ireland and Scotland where the barrels respire with the sea air and replicate the process used to create authentic scotch whiskey I went to a tasting there and tried some of their "younger stuff" that was only $100 a bottle they have $600 and $700 bottles there.
http://ciscobrewers.com/spirits_category/notch

We cut ours every year from a farm in Berlin mass they last forever when you cut them fresh even with the woodstove drying it out. It takes lots of water probably a quart a day


speaking of quarts

Check out this bullshit I want to change my snowblowers oil for the first time. yeah that's right in like 10 years because it's a snowblower so I go to change it and noticed the drain tube doesn't have any place for the wrench to hold it for you undo the end cap. The vice can't hold it there's not enough grip room this is ridiculous. When I gripped tightly as I can with the clamps it's still spins out and the cap doesn't move. The best part is it's it's so flush with the housing you can't get a pipe wrench around either. I don't know how they do this in service they must stand it up on it's end and pop it out and suck it out.

 

I figured out how to do it though. Flipped it up on it's auger and took the whole pipe out and then grabbed it with my vice and got that damn end cap off. Then put it back on, tipped it back down and drain the oil
What a pain in the ass.

 

My snowblower has the same crap setup. I used the high test liquid tite on the engine side of the pipe because I couldn’t hold the pipe with vise grips and get the cap off. I prop up the auger on blocks so the oil runs out of the pipe. Mine sticks a little further out of the back though but barely clears the back of the snow blower.

 

Mine has that too

 

I usually get my tree early December. Love the real trees, and so do the cats.

 

Chicken has been cooking all day with a bunch of spices and chopped jalapenos for the enchiladas....

Then, I picked up some of this.....

Glutton for punishment.......

 

Brisket mission complete

 

Just had to tow the caterers trailer and truck out of about 2 inches of snow. Two wheel drive and crap tires aren’t a good mix in this slick stuff, even on a barely noticeable incline.

 

Did you tow them together or have to take them apart?

 

I couldn’t hook to the front so we unhitched And I did one at a time. Full sized truck and a 14 foot enclosed trailer with a Mobil kitchen inside