"Old Indian Tricks"

[Okrafarmer]

Unfortunately he sold it many years ago, after using it for many years (and doing major repairs at least 4 times). And it was in another state anyway.

[Bill]

Maybe not quite an ole Indian trick - but seems to work for me ( and maybe alot of folks already know it ).

Plain ole honey is a great antiseptic ( tastes pretty good too ). It kills germs and such just as good as most anything else. Seems they found some old books by the Egyptians ( couple thousand years old ) telling how they used it on open wounds and even the Roman army ( a thousand or so years ago ) used it after battles to keep their soldiers battle wounds from getting infected.

I 'll just pack some for pancakes when going upstate and its there iffen I need it.   

[Okrafarmer]

Maybe not quite an ole Indian trick - but seems to work for me ( and maybe alot of folks already know it ).

Plain ole honey is a great antiseptic ( tastes pretty good too ). It kills germs and such just as good as most anything else. Seems they found some old books by the Egyptians ( couple thousand years old ) telling how they used it on open wounds and even the Roman army ( a thousand or so years ago ) used it after battles to keep their soldiers battle wounds from getting infected.

I 'll just pack some for pancakes when going upstate and its there iffen I need it.   

Let me know how it works out for you-- I'd be afraid of attracting flies. . . . .

[whiskers]

and bears!

[Bill]

Well its been working for me for the past few years so I have no hesitation recommending it .

Iffen you want ta follow up on it there's a book out by former USDA researcher with more practical recommendations - think its called Green Pharmacy - but don't know that I ' m allowed to plug a book here ;-) but I've found alot of his ideas helpful ( and of course some that aren't - we do have our differences . . .   )

[Okrafarmer]

ok, sounds good!

[customsawyer]

You can boil eggs in a zip-lock bag in the coals of a camp fire if some one forgets to bring a pot. Take the bag with the eggs in it fill with water and close, make sure there is no air in the bag at all, place the bag in the coals at the edge of the fire and you can watch the water start to boil. When the bag melts the eggs are done. The bag can't melt tell it get the water hot enough to melt the plastic.

[Gary_C]

When the bag melts the eggs are done.

 

Then you grab that mass of melted plastic and eggs out of the coals with a tongs?

 

[Okrafarmer]

When the bag melts the eggs are done.

 

Then you grab that mass of melted plastic and eggs out of the coals with a tongs?

 

Or something else you might have handy.

[isawlogs]

 Or make a pot with white birch bark if ya got some handy . 

[Mooseherder]

When the bag melts the eggs are done.

 

Then you grab that mass of melted plastic and eggs out of the coals with a tongs?

 

No, you grab a long stick off the ground and fish out da eggs by rolling them outta da fire into the sand till they cool some.   Don't you know nothin'.

[Gary_C]

 

I think I'll grab the stick and roast some weinies instead.

[Okrafarmer]

I wonder if you can just roast the eggs in the coals? Wonder what would happen. Maybe they would explode. 

[Whitman]

When I was 13 yrs old an old gentelman taught me how to roast an eggs in a camp fire. He just picked the large end with his barlow and made a opening the size of a dime.Then placed it with care close to the coales and used a stick to move more imbers around it.Watch it closey or they will get over done.Old memeries and I can still taste it .

[isawlogs]

 Okra , ya can try it in the microwave  A side note to the test.. wait for the bossette to be out for a while to try.

[Okrafarmer]

Okra , ya can try it in the microwave  A side note to the test.. wait for the bossette to be out for a while to try.

I think I already tried it, with un-notable results. Just a side-note-- eggs and okra go well together, especially with a suitable spice combination. Eat more okra. . . . .

[JJ]

I have boiled an egg on camp fire using an 1/2 orange peel.
Worked, peel will not burn with water in it.

Also I have done the egg in microwave when I was a kid, and in hurry to catch the school bus (microwave ovens had just come out).
I missed that bus  .  one heck of a mess!

[WILDSAWMILL]

travling lunch put hamburger , onion, potato, lop of butter, salt & pepper in alum foil seal up tight. place on intakemanifold of 38 chev . 100 miles & turn over 100miles time to eat wood work on loging machine ill bet

[Okrafarmer]

travling lunch put hamburger , onion, potato, lop of butter, salt & pepper in alum foil seal up tight. place on intakemanifold of 38 chev . 100 miles & turn over 100miles time to eat wood work on loging machine ill bet

Sounds like you'd want to get that one right the first time!

[vtlogger1973]

When cutting timber on steep ground and that beautiful oak is too far from the road to reach with the cable, cut a tree that you can reach then cut the oak so the top lands on the first tree.  Chain the two together and winch them down the hill.  When you get the first tree to the road you may have to unhook and pull back up to the oak. They dont corner very well that way.  Its alot of work for one tree, but around here foresters like to mark the tough ones.

Also, any time a saw is pinched and in harms way, by grabbing the starter cord and pulling it out you can keep a hand on the saw, and get three or four feet farther away from danger yourself.  Alot of foresters around here will mark every tree that is rotten in the but, and sometimes it is pretty easy to get pinched whe falling them. It is safer than just hanging on to the saw when it is pinched in a falling tree.  I know that the safest thing would be to leave the saw and get away but Ipaid 1000 bucks for my last saw and this has saved me from smashing one a couple times. 
  Not every forester marks dangerous trees,  but some of them mark every single one of them.  They act awfully upset when you hand them the saw.