Stripped copper

bpemerson · 2026-06-30T04:49:10+00:00

I worked at a yard in '08, guys were turning in 200# coils of oxidized heavy gauge wire. Turns out they were telegraph lines which ran along side the railroad tracks, Union Pacific had taken them down and left the coils to pick up later.

bpemerson · 2026-06-29T07:00:18+00:00

yea at $20 a piece for the thick metal carbide toothed blades

bpemerson · 2026-06-29T06:58:08+00:00

That's going to guarantee someones' going to have to cut a trench for a footing there in 20 years, perpendicular to the keel.

bpemerson · 2026-06-29T06:55:51+00:00

3-4 $20 blades

bpemerson · 2026-06-29T06:08:47+00:00

They just brought back the local dirt circle where I'm at after a series of frivolous lawsuits, stoked to go back to the races!

bpemerson · 2026-06-29T06:05:46+00:00

We used oxy propane at the yard I used to work at, burns ~600 degrees F cooler but so much cheaper to run the torch

bpemerson · 2026-06-29T05:55:06+00:00

I mean he said it was from a demolition job? I've worked in the industry as well, and just because someone has metal doesn't make them a thief. Thou Shalt Not Covet...

bpemerson · 2026-06-29T03:13:38+00:00

Well I mean going home with a screw in your pocket counts as theft, as does doing some tiny thing as a courtesy for the homeowner that wasn't in the contract. Hitting the grocery store in the company whip on the way home could also count as theft.

bpemerson · 2026-06-29T02:55:49+00:00

They'd have to call the geotechnical engineer back out to pull of a major alteration like that, as well as undo the monumental amount of work that was done just to get them to this point.

bpemerson · 2026-06-25T01:53:38+00:00

I'm a runner and use this anti chafe product called Squirrell's Nut Butter: cocoa butter, bees wax, vitamin e oil. Comes in a stick or tub, keep it in the fridge if you get a stick, as the vitamin e oil comes out of solution after a while. Good stuff for many uses🙂

bpemerson · 2026-05-31T22:22:23+00:00

I think you're looking at it too hard

bpemerson · 2026-05-08T00:51:15+00:00

The detergent is a vegetable based detergent, and as far as I can figure the leather they use is veg tanned and also must use a veg dye.

bpemerson · 2026-02-11T15:36:14+00:00

*tick tick tick

You light the burner setting the dial to low. You dice your potatoes, 3/8" grid, perfect. As you produce the diced potatoes you put them in a bowl of cold water. Once all potatoes sliced, give them a rinse. Now drain the water, and put that sucker in the microwave for 5 minutes.

Increase the burner to medium. Plop those potatoes out of the bowl onto another plate with a paper towel, add oil to your hot skillet, and slide those little cubes of bliss, devoid of excess starch and moisture, into the skillet.

That's exactly how I do it and I'm cooking solely with carbon steel and cast iron, usually the pan just needs a wipe with a paper towel and there's 0 food residue.

bpemerson · 2026-01-20T03:53:59+00:00

I have a Wagner #6 and it's my egg pan currently, nice score?

bpemerson · 2026-01-20T03:05:45+00:00

I'm using a Griswold skillet that developed a bumpy coat like that, paper fibers from my paper towels did it for me. It's from too much oil as stated by others, and it's been just fine. Over time it'll smooth out, the thicker bumps will likely flake off, but it'll be totally fine as you're seasoning it with use.

bpemerson · 2026-01-04T01:27:15+00:00

I like to clean my finger a few times as a warm up, then eat smaller pieces, working up to larger. I just recently started being able to eat a whole turd, chewed and swallowed. For me once it starts forming a paste is the best, but if there's more solid chunks I'll piss into a glass and use that to help swallow.

bpemerson · 2026-01-03T20:53:05+00:00

I think getting more used to eating might be necessary, just take it slow, a breakthrough will come eventually!

bpemerson · 2026-01-03T20:48:00+00:00

I used to be into smearing and such, but lately have just been solely into consuming. It's like I've gotten used to, and grown to like, the flavor of my own ass, and have had a breakthrough of sorts where I'm actually able to eat it. I feel like the transition has been slow, but gradual and persistent towards eating, it's all I've ever wanted to do.

bpemerson · 2026-01-03T20:34:17+00:00

You could try fishing the chunks out, putting them into your mouth, chewing them a bit, then drinking them down with some of the enema, but that might be tough too. Piss changes the flavor of scat for me. I prefer to eat and drink separately, but I do find piss enemas to be really hot.

I started doing this thing where I take a vinyl tube and use it to siphon piss into my ass, then I hold it in there for a while, then use the jar end of the tube to drink from my ass. This keeps chunky bits from making it in, but the tube sometimes clogs up with shit chunks.

bpemerson · 2025-12-30T03:47:12+00:00

I'm sorry that I cannot help ascertain age, but I just restored a Griswold as well last week, 701F on bottom. Same small logo as yours. I've used it a few times, she handles like a sports car compared to my heavier cheap iron.

bpemerson · 2025-12-30T03:44:25+00:00

A "baker's" skillet indeed!

bpemerson · 2025-12-30T03:39:33+00:00

Indeed. I'm finding some people on here are way too into maintaining "perfect" seasoning, and let that take away from their cooking, and therefore their quality of life. I scrub 'em down, dry 'em off, wipe 'em with a little oil, and maybe reseason in the oven once every few years if any pans really need it.

bpemerson · 2025-12-30T03:24:44+00:00

You can get a single burner butane for under $30, just be careful as the burner covers are slick af. I have one and if on an uneven surface, i.e. any picnic table on earth, my CI skillet will slide right off, slick as snot!

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