Outdoor Cleaning Area Setup

[miniwoodworker]

BTW, I'm a female, too. And, I'm armed with a couple of good rolling pins.  :-*


C. PERRY RAPIERS TRAUMATIZED REPLY STARTS HERE

Thats it, thats it, thats it, no more talkin to Lee boys, its an ambush I tell you.

Tryin to lure us into this stove business so she could get us over there and enslave us. I feel so used. I think I'm gonna go take a shower right now. And I'm gonna scrub extra on the ends of my fingers that have been touching the keys that have been communicating with this cagey and foxy feline. Such shame.

There's a lesson here, I tell you all, this just goes to show how far this cast iron business wil make a person go.

Well now Ms. Lee, since we know who you really are, are you married and if not can you send me some pictures of your favorite pieces of cast iron, a picture of the latest fish you caught, tell me do you scald or skin your hogs, send me a picture of the latest 10 point buck, or over, that you have killed, and do you gut or fillet your fish, and oh yeah, if you got another stove, I'd like to see it too.

See what happens when I let the cat out of the bag. I knew I shouldn't have written that last line.  ::)

I'm truly sorry that you had to pull out the nail brush that early in the day. A little Clorox should finish sanitizing those keys, so you'll feel comfortable again.

Now, the rest of your message. Let's see. Yep, married for 39 years. Yep, a little ol lady.

Don't have any pix handy of my favorite CI, so I'll just tell ya a bit for now. (1) My father's 20" skillet. It's the very best for cooking those fish I've caught, scaled, gutted, washed, salted, rolled in cornmeal and dropped into that hot grease.

Skin a hog? Where are you from fellow? Around here, we scald and scrape them. All of the left over skin goes into another CI favorite. A gate marked 25 gallon washpot that's another family piece, BTW. Cook that skin, fleet-fat, and the other misc fat down to get some of the best tasting cracklings and lard you'll ever see.  Writing this is making me wish I had some to go with homemade biscuits for "supper" tonight.

I don't hunt, but I've offered more than once to help a neighbor dress out deer as payback for some of the venison that comes my way. Since I've also plucked chickens, don't think any other butchering would be much worse? How about you, have you grabbed a young rooster off the yard and fried him up in a favorite CI pan?

Now lets, see.... oh yes, more stoves... there's the CI wood burner and gas range in the workshop... no, not old enough... gas range and electric cooktop in the kitchen, .... no same problem. Coleman camping stoves, they're old enough to be collectable. No, not CI. The offset smoker has CI grates, but that's not really a stove.  Uhmmm, thinking about it, I don't think I have another stove that would spark your interest. Sorry...

I do sincerely hope that now that you've showered you have gotten over your trauma a little bit. Please do give it time, as it will eventually fade. Hope at some point you'll be recovered enough so you won't have to wear latex gloves when typing a reply to me.  ;)

Feeling better? Hope so!
Lee

[C. Perry Rapier]

Well Ms. Lee, you sure got a lot of spunk. Although the water from the shower that I felt compelled to take is now dry upon my trembling fingers, tears of sorrow have now taken its place. My keyboard is wet and slippery as I cry for the fact that, here a woman has got all this going for her, and belongs to yet another.

Ms. Lee, I hope all these attributes you got goin for you run in your family. With that in mind, an if they do, ain't you got a sister, cousin, niece, or some other family member, surely you all ain't spoken for or taken.

As far as the butchering business goes, I have done quite a bit of it. Butchered lots of chickens too, skinned or plucked. It truly sounds like you know what you are talking about. If you have the sanity to stick with us, I am sure you will fit in just fine.

[moosejaw]

Well now Ms. Lee, are you married ?

 [smiley=hysterical.gif] [smiley=hysterical.gif] [smiley=hysterical.gif] [smiley=hysterical.gif]  Hey Perry, you trolling the WAGS forum for a date now?????

[Greg Stahl]

what a great thread.  didn't i already say that some where else today?

[Duke Gilleland]

Great to see the Cookerators & the peasants come to life again!! I thought they were lost in the Black Cave of Carbon forever :'(  There is life in that there stove! [smiley=super.gif]
Come on Marty! Catch up there ;D

[C. Perry Rapier]

Well now Ms. Lee, are you married ?

 [smiley=hysterical.gif] [smiley=hysterical.gif] [smiley=hysterical.gif] [smiley=hysterical.gif]  Hey Perry, you trolling the WAGS forum for a date now?????

Actually no, more than that, a wife. Who knows what cast iron beauty queens lurk in front of the screens out there in the great yonder of Intenetland and the Great Cast Iron Country?

[junkswap]

Can I hear the part about whoping cpr in the head with A rolling pen again! Can I please! aw come on tell me just once more.

I could listen to that bedtime story every night ( cpr's bedtime that is) !!! ;D
great thread is right!
b/w

[moosejaw]

Ms. Lee, I hope all these attributes you got goin for you run in your family. With that in mind, an if they do, ain't you got a sister, cousin, niece, or some other family member, surely you all ain't spoken for or taken.

Actually no, more than that, a wife. Who knows what cast iron beauty queens lurk in front of the screens out there in the great yonder of Intenetland and the Great Cast Iron Country?

Hey, Perry,

Don't you think you'd get off a little cheaper this time if you stuck to those blow up dolls?

[Duke Gilleland]

Blow Up Doll? MAN That's a Jugular cut there Marty :o You just  [smiley=00000052.gif]might could hold your own down here in Texas!

[miniwoodworker]

Ms. Lee, I hope all these attributes you got goin for you run in your family. With that in mind, an if they do, ain't you got a sister, cousin, niece, or some other family member, surely you all ain't spoken for or taken.  

I do have a niece who values the old traditions. For example, she gave me flour sack kitchen towels for Christmas last year. Alas, though, she's married. But don't give up hope yet. Her daughter, my great niece, will be the next one in line to inherit Mom's Hoosier cabinet, along with my CI and stove. If you have patience, it'll be helpful, since it'll be 12 years before she turns 18. Then, it'll probably be another 10 years before she fully realizes that 150 year old CI frying pan cooks better than that $150 new one she bought.

So, if you have patience, Perry ......... you might get that stove, after all.  :)

Lee

[miniwoodworker]

Can I hear the part about whoping cpr in the head with A rolling pen again! Can I please! aw come on tell me just once more.

I could listen to that bedtime story every night ( cpr's bedtime that is) !!! ;D
great thread is right!
b/w

One more time, just for you.  8-)

When I got married, my Mom gave me a rolling pin and told me how to use it. If the need arises, I'll be armed with that trusty rolling pin that's never failed me in the past.

BTW, if cpr's reading this, I gave one to my niece when she got married.  ;)

Lee

[Ellis Morehead]

Well Ms. Lee, you sure got a lot of spunk. Although the water from the shower that I felt compelled to take is now dry upon my trembling fingers, tears of sorrow have now taken its place. My keyboard is wet and slippery as I cry for the fact that, here a woman has got all this going for her, and belongs to yet another.

Ms. Lee, I hope all these attributes you got goin for you run in your family. With that in mind, an if they do, ain't you got a sister, cousin, niece, or some other family member, surely you all ain't spoken for or taken.

As far as the butchering business goes, I have done quite a bit of it. Butchered lots of chickens too, skinned or plucked. It truly sounds like you know what you are talking about. If you have the sanity to stick with us, I am sure you will fit in just fine.

If sanity is a requirement to be a member of this forum/group/WAGS, can someone tell me how CPR qualified? [smiley=crazy.gif]
The CI world wants to know!

Cheers, Ellis

[Fusion_power]

Of course sanity is a requirement.  IN-sanity that is.

Did your mother ever rock you to sleep at night?  My mother used to rock me to sleep at night.  It worked really good.  But sometimes the big rocks hurt.  I'm glad she never learned the rolling pin trick.  She had one made out of marble and if she ever figured out that marble is just shaped and polished rock, she might have used it!

As for trusting women, Its been my experience that most of them are just as unreliable as most men are.  And that is a very sad thing to say as far as I am concerned.  I once bought some land for $350,000.00 with just a handshake to seal the deal.  Several days later, I gave him a personal check and he gave me a deed.  That just doesn't happen very much any more folks.

Re cleaning up the old stove, the lye bath won't be of much use except as a holding tank for pieces.  Its very effective at removing grease but does nothing at all for rust and very little for stove carbon.  The electro bath will do a good job on the rust but sometimes requires a tad of elbow grease with baked on carbon.

[miniwoodworker]

Of course sanity is a requirement.  IN-sanity that is.

Re cleaning up the old stove, the lye bath won't be of much use except as a holding tank for pieces.  Its very effective at removing grease but does nothing at all for rust and very little for stove carbon.  The electro bath will do a good job on the rust but sometimes requires a tad of elbow grease with baked on carbon.

Thanks, Darrel. That helps me decide which to what, if that makes sense.  :)

BTW, my better half thinks I've gone IN-sane! I bought another CI wood cookstove yesterday. Bought that, a pretty platter, large enameled serving tray, a Hoosier cabinet flour sifter compartment, and the stove for $75. Day before yesterday, bought 3 Griswold skillets, a Wagoner griddle, and a gate-marked griddle for $74. Yesterday's stove isn't as fancy as the previous one, but it'll be a perfect fit for my workshop. It's a Dixie Bell. Four burners and an oven. This will be a user stove! I'll be doing some before/after pix, when I get started on it.

Insane -- think so......  :o

Lee

[moosejaw]

Wow, Lee!  Looks like you have been finding lots of great stuff for good prices.  Maybe I need to take a road trip to whatever state you live in!  BTW, what state DO you live in?  I know it's not Illinois, because Illinois seems to be devoid of any cast iron.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Hey, Perry,

Don't you think you'd get off a little cheaper this time if you stuck to those blow up dolls?

Well Marty, I'm saving myself for you. Right now you can put those pretty lips of yours to the computer screen.  :-* :-* [smiley=thinkerg.gif] [smiley=sweetheart.gif] [smiley=sweetheart.gif] [smiley=sweetheart.gif]

[junkswap]

"Well Marty, I'm saving myself for you. Right now you can put those pretty lips of yours to the computer screen."
you go cpr,,lol,,yee haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      
 :)
b/w

[moosejaw]

Blow Up Doll? MAN That's a Jugular cut there Marty :o You just  [smiley=00000052.gif]might could hold your own down here in Texas!

We Yankee women can hold our own anywhere. [smiley=hyper.gif]   It's Perry I'm worried about....he needs something to hold!  Can't you dig someone up for him down there, Duke?  Quick?  When the boy starts asking women to kiss him through a computer screen, I believe that's called desperation.  

[miniwoodworker]

Marty, I live in a rural area in north central NC. I'm far enough from the metro areas that the towns nearby have populations of less than 5000. It's in one of these towns where I've been recently stocking up on CI. Plus, when time permits, I love to visit flea markets, junk shops,  and yard sales throughout the area.  Can't afford most of what I see at the more high end places.  :(

Guess being in one of the original 13 colonies has some bearing on the availability of the old stuff.  ;)

BTW, spent a little time yesterday taking apart the Dixe Bell. Found something new to me at Lowes. The folks who make 3n1 machine oil, now have a product for removing rusty bolts, cleaning rust, and rust prevention. Tried a can of it. I was able to remove a few of the bolts, yesterday. All the rest of them got a generous spray. Was able to free up the draft control in the fire door using it. That resisted all attempts to move it. I didn't try the last resort hammer method, as I wanted to see if anything else, (including electro) would help. I was tickled when the new stuff did the trick. (Sorry, the can's outside and I don't remember the exact name of it.)

Lee

[Greg Stahl]

when you get the name, let us know, as I have an aluminum skillet that I want to remove the handle from.  tx,