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Yea Butch but I came out on top lucky the judge didnt look kindly on female infidelity hahaha he shamed her in court all is good now!!

yeah gotta love the sound of a thumper heating up! Try a cleaning run with nothing in the thumper lol that will wake ya up!

Thanks fellas damn divorce took my motivation away for awhile but hey life goes on and life is good im glad to be back to the greatest site on the net!

Howdy fellas took a bit of a hiatus, happy to be back home again fire up the burners boys!

Yep damned near learnt that lesson not too long ago! The first ones ready to see you go down in a ball of fire are the ones that are closest to ya that is mad as hell at ya.

Moving them from the hottest part of the house to a old fridge turned to the coldest setting once a week really helps mimic the natural expansion and contraction of the wood.
Basically you can simulate years of seasonal change in just a few months.Or hell I could be talkin out my ass.

Best time to do it in my opinion less people snoopin around, A good barn without any drafts out of the wind a little insulation around boiler and some pipe insulation give er hell.

Welcome friend dammit HDNB that brought a tear to my eye hahaha good stuff.

That's pretty cool. It's always interesting to learn about your heritage. A relative traced our roots back to England, and learned our family came to America on the Mayflower. Definitely learn some interesting stuff from geneology. As for shiners in my history, haven't found much on that. However, ...

If I was to have my very own shiny rig I would use a 15.5 boiler and a 15.5 thumper hahahaha.

Little late on this one but I don't recommend nothin smaller than 1/2 the size.You can put 2 gallons in a 5 gal container but ya cant put 5 gal in a 2 gal container.
Do it big the first time but that's just me always over engineer crap.

If the still is rendered down to the point that it cant and wont function then it is only an historical art piece.If the cap is soldered solid the worm is soldered shut
then it is a non functioning piece.

Damn farm got sold but that's fine nothin I can do bout that.I'm pretty well sold on Arkansas so I'll keep lookin.

A couple of fellas have beat prosecution because they had parts.A worm can be used for heat exchange in a wood burner to heat your water.
Like keg jam stated a liebig could and I do believe would be a problem kegs can and are used in aging wine in.And a big ol pot is used for doing all grain beer.

Thanks Bigbob yea I just may become that mountain man I always wanted to be when I was a kid lol.

I am and it is a shame that everything that is being legalized we still have to be on edge all the time about our hobby.

Well I did this awhile back with sweetfeed the bad thing is well I had to dispose of it very quickly or so I thought.From what
I did taste as a white dawg it was gonna be a hell of a sip with age.This winter will be testing time again.Thanks Odin for all
the info you have brought here!

Howdy fellas been gone a spell things got a little hairy for a while some times you cant even trust the ones you take in as family. Well nuff said is there any fellas from Arkansas here thinking bout buying a farm out that way if so how do ya like it? Got a deal in the western part the part I like i...

A little salt vinegar and flour will clean that pipe up nice sass,get to layin down the solder soon friend cant wait to see the results.

Butch you is welcome for is long as you want to come and fish, caught 2 yesterday 3 today hooked and lost don't know how many.
Lost about 12 jigs in the last 2 days lost a 12+ pounder today %$%$&

Slammed two 5lb jacks today they are starting to get hot!

Started a new SF batch with a twist! Completely rinsed all molasses from 6 lbs of SF and induced the Maillard reaction to the grain. Then divided the grain between 4 five gal. buckets then added 3 lbs of regular SF to each bucket and 7 lbs sugar per bucket. Walleye season is getting hot so I will be...

I use two 15.5s and would not trade em for nothin so versatile.

Yep look in the condensers section lots to learn there friend.

Normally your spent grain will float to the top when you fill your bucket just take that out and replace that amount.

The stillin shed really smells wonderful when ya run a batch of apple good luck.

That sounds sweet. Im gonna put a ripe banna in my thumper next time with my ujssm and see what happens. I always use my thumper to strip, its easyer than taking it down as my pot still never moves. Mine is a keg boiler(12 gal) with a fire extinguisher (3 gal) thumper have only been pot stilling fo...

Aluminum will pit weaken then crack in a short time not safe to use, get a recirculating pump and garbage can to run your water into no waste of water then.

Yep moving rite along HDNB, one thing about stripping into gallon jugs it is boring as hell!!
I'm used to single footen and running 1/2 pint jars and doing cuts after airing.

I put 10 gal in boiler at 12% then added the other gallon of 12% plus 2 gal of feints to thumper not sure what % the feints were.
Even with that I still could not come up with the numbers the op is saying he is getting.