Hunting in the fall, turkey hunting in the spring, and fishing the rest of the year. That pretty much covers it lol.
Other Hobbys question
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@Hillbilly_picker the purpose of my post was to learn about members on BB forum i do not take what people are saying about themselves as bragging I asked and I appreciate people participating makes the time go by I will say though if you are only 17 you come across way more mature
I have had so many hobbies it takes me time to even think about all of them
I was also into exotic reptiles at one time and had 130 true Camillions and monitor lizards at one time
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@Shaky_loves_banjo I know exactly what river tables are I got into making tables when I was younger I would use an Alaskan sawmill to cut slabs and make the tables out of the slabs
For those do not know what a Alaskan Sawmill is it is an attachment used with a chainsaw that allows you to cut slabs of wood out of trees that are down it is a lot of work but fun
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Whew, thanks😅, you can thank my dad.
I love fishing too even though I haven’t done very much if it I live a mile away from the Chain lakes, in Idaho, and have been trying to catch something, but haven’t figured out the right time of year and day, I have mostly fished the cour d alene river, but haven’t tried cour d alene lake yet. LOTS of water to try.
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I’m learning French on Duolingo. I’m about where you are with conversational French. But my goal to learn was to read historic documents from the area where I live–for my genealogy hobby.
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That is one of the tables I made using a Alaskan sawmill
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We were going to get an Alaskan sawmill but we ended getting a woodmizer lx55
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That’s beautiful by the way is that juniper or cedar?
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Wow i really love that!
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@Hillbilly_picker it is made out of Alligator Juniper the table top is approximately 2 3/4 inch thick
I do need to repair the base, I was offered $750 for it but my wife would not allow me to sell
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Neat!
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@Hillbilly_picker My wife and I prior to April 1st 2019 lived off grid and when I say we were off grid I mean we were off grid our closest neighbor was 4 1/2 miles away and the closest paved road was 10 miles away it was 30 miles to town we lived like that for 7 years until my wife got hit by a hit and run driver in phoenix AZ we had no electric other than what the sun would produce each day, I pretty much had to figure out how to keep things working and how to do things to make money so the Alaskan sawmill was one of the things we decided to purchase to make money with our main income was from a accounting and tax service that my wife had when i met her she taught me her business which I continue on today tax time is the only time we made money and that was and still is now so after tax season I had to figure out ways to keep the money coming in.
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That sounds like a good plan.
Bonne chance!
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Merci!
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Sounds just like my brother. when he’s not hunting, he’ll be thinking about it.
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oh ya, I thought of using one of those but one of my buddys bought a very nice Lukas mill which is a portable mill but works much better. I just paid him to mill all my lumber. Now i got several thousand pounds of lumber drying. I do like the alaskan mill tho since it is more portable and is pretty quick.
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At the time I thought about purchasing a portable saw mill but decided against that for the Alaskan sawmill as it was way more portable, my wife and I would go out and camp for a few days in areas we knew possessed a lot of alligator juniper and I would use a quad to drag logs to camp and then we would spend a few days just milling with the chainsaw and Alaskan sawmill I miss those days
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Man that sounds like the stuff i like. I’ve always been drawn to the simple “roughin it” lifstyle. Gi me a camp back in the bush with me n my 12gauge and i’m happy. Maybe a 270 as well. sorta the Jim Kjelgaard story type of thing if you know what i means.
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Man that sounds like the stuff i like. I’ve always been drawn to the simple “roughin it” lifstyle. Gi me a camp back in the bush with me n my 12gauge and i’m happy. Maybe a 270 as well. sorta the Jim Kjelgaard story type of thing if you know what i means.
we pretty much camped 24/7 360 days a year for 7 years but when we went to cut slabs it was hard tiring work so we would just stay out there our property was40 acres backed up by state trust land on one side and BLM on the other where we did the slabs was 70 miles from where we
actually lived so it was easier to just stay out there a few days
on our property we would have herds of cattle, antelope,elk, javalena and mountain lions running through all the time
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