Greetings from the Treasure State 36 with a high around 57 our breeze is out of the N at 3 mph the humidity is 78 % under partly cloudy skies with a chance of rain showers throughout the day for another great day in Montana !

Enjoy your day and Stay Safe out there even if you don't want to ha ha !

8 to 10 ounces???? Are you trying to feed them or test the bait? I always test using the same amount i trap with. The amount you use definitely can affect your results.

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Nice, but wait until you are old enough that grandkids are lugging beaver for you. You'll like it even better then.

Interlock Kit is about the most affordable way for a handy person to properly hook up a generator to an electrical panel.

You buy the specific silver slide tooling for your panel. Remove the panel cover. Drill and install the mechanism and then it prevents you from having your main or your gen breaker on at the same time. So you can't back feed the main line and the main line can't back feed the generator when the power comes back on. Gens are rated at 30 amps. So install a 220V 30 amp breaker in the top position, run 30 amp wire (usually orange/purple), 4 wire red white black bare, hook it up in the panel, drill a hole through the wall, run a wire to the outside, and put in a 30 amp generator receptacle. Make up a 30 amp extension cord (wire and both ends rated at 30 amps, everything 30 amps!) and you are off and running. Make the extension cord 4 wire too and the ends 220 30 amp plugs. Use a generator with a 30amp 220v outlet with four plug holes / posts. (thats the red white black and bare)

The draw back is it doesn't do the automatic start thing. But they make a remote start generator that can be hooked up and all you have to do it throw the breaker and hit the start button. (That way someone can do it while I'm away.)
((they make gens that are tripple fuel use options too, Diesel, Gas, Propane.))

If you have a barn or an out building far enough away from the house that's safe for running the generator in I suggest putting the gen outlet there and installing emergency lighting in that area that comes on when the power goes out.
(Out in the barn you can run a 50amp circuit instead of 30 amps to allow for a bigger "barn" generator.)

(make sure gas carbon dioxide can't go down the conduit to the house or something crazy, not that I am recommending that you do this or anything.)

For entertainment purposes only.

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I fired up the woodstove last night, I was positive I was done burning for the season, I guess not. Good thing I did, I woke up to 29 degrees.

A few years ago I did elementary school presentations to a few local schools about our job and safety. Some hot teacher always asks what’s the most dangerous thing we do.
“The most dangerous thing a lineman will do is driving to the job, or running a chainsaw.”
It’s a lot safer doing HV work than LV with all the handcuffing safety procedures. There’s always some jobs that just can’t be done by following procedures, then the utility turns a blind eye and if something happens, it’s on the employee for failing to follow procedure…..lol. Their butts covered.
The tree/chainsaw module these guys/gals read in trade school, then the 6 hour practical course isn’t enough for someone that’s never ran a saw. I’ve seen certified UTT arborists that shouldn’t be dropping trees either. Some should stick to limbing……lol

I believe the thinking is that everyone has worms and our doctors don't treat them. There is a theory that waste from the worms can cause bloating and cancer. Said a friend.

I hate silk sheets bc they are so cold.

He and other old bands are out there on tour. I haven't been to any shows, but I figure they start promptly at 7 pm and are done at 9:00...maybe 9:30 with an encore?

9 a gallon right now, supposed to go up soon. Usually get two fuel deliveries, one summer, one fall. Yukon ice has not went out here yet, but any hour it should.

Happy birthday Beav.