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My John Deere is my baby. Yeah. Just a garden tractor. But wanted one for as long as I can remember. I had it for three years. Only 22 hours on it. Today, I got home and figued I'd cut the grass. Going around the backyard. I decided to use the cruise control. Only the second time I have.
Got...
Got tired of using a hammer. And a piece of scrap wood to hammer on. So I whipped up a mallet.
Came out ok. Considering I just used scrap pieces of cutting boards. Reinforced with dowels. I think it'll hold up alright. Productive weekend. Three boards done.
You can use a fork. If you have the vacuum attachment for mason jars. Then just put the meat in a mason jar, I use the gallon ones. And vacuum seal. Then lay the jar on its side to spread the meat out. Rotate the jar a few times while marinating.
Over high heat for a couple of minutes on both sides. Then move to indirect heat. Then baste if you wish. At least that's how it is done here in upstate NY.
With power planer. I meant the dewalt. Sorry. I tried those hand powered planers before. Didn't like it! I'm definately going to do more weave. I really like how it looks. I have the Watco finish. Forgot about it. I should have used that for the butcher twine holder.
I'll call this a successful failure. I did one weave on this. Then made a bone head move by attempting to plane off the excess walnut trim. Which was high on both sides of the board with the power planer. Needless to say, that didn't work well. Spund the board around. Got jammed and chewed up...