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Post by krank on Nov 9, 2016 8:54:10 GMT -6
Lots of discussion over the years regarding a pot to boil traps in. A lot of folks use a steel 5 gal bucket and some use a 55 gal drum cut in two. I made one out of a big propane bottle with the top cut off but it rusted inside easily. Yesterday I was at the scrapper hauling a load of cans and batteries. I looked over at a pile of scrap kitchen equipment and there was the biggest range pot. I asked the attendant if they would sell that to me. She said it will cost me 2 dollars. I gave her a 5 spot and threw the pot in the truck and split. Scrubbed real nice and I shudder to think what it cost new. So theres an idea for you guys wanting a bigger pot. Try your local junkyard.  |
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Post by Walleye Joe on Nov 9, 2016 10:46:24 GMT -6
Nice find Krank!
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Post by jiml on Nov 9, 2016 18:08:18 GMT -6
Looks like the ones the Lunch Lady made soup in back in school.... Great find, you gotta love scrap piles.
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Post by krank on Nov 10, 2016 18:01:59 GMT -6
Took forever to get it to boil on a propane fish cooker........
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Post by tjm on Nov 11, 2016 10:01:40 GMT -6
Took forever to get it to boil on a propane fish cooker........ That's why I down sized to a canner that cooks just a few at a time, seems to me that 2-3 dozen traps get done quicker six at a time than they do all at once. Every time I see the title to this thread I laugh; once upon a time our ship was in the Port of Piraeus and the quarterdeck watch Chief caught a boy from Cincinnati with a gallon ziplock of "good sh*t" under his coat as he returned from liberty. Investigation and analysis by the medical department proceeds and at the Captain's Mast the Dr. testified that it was "either very low quality horse s**t or very good quality donkey s**t". Charge was dropped and the feller was asked a zillion times over the next year or so if he'd "scored any good sht lately". Don't believe he ever used or dealt in pot again. |
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Post by krank on Nov 13, 2016 20:24:21 GMT -6
I don't know what I will wind up doing with it but its nice to have the option.
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Post by silverfox on Nov 29, 2016 14:05:06 GMT -6
I don't know what I will wind up doing with it but its nice to have the option. Good pot and a good pot make boiling traps quite an adventure! Can't beat a sunny November afternoon with good pot! |
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Post by krank on Nov 29, 2016 18:39:35 GMT -6
I have been using it for a double broiler using a steel 5 gal bucket. I set it on my fish cooker and render beeswax cappings off honeycomb. The debris settles to the bottom and the honey in the middle and the beeswax on top.
I feed the honey back to the bees or sell for baking honey (dark).
Beeswax goes back for one more session of melting and filtering and pouring in ingots.
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Post by mmaxwell on Nov 29, 2016 20:37:56 GMT -6
Like wow man, that is good pot  |
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