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So jealous of that anvil! Great deal.

And no, we did not manage to get any Benton's - sad day indeed.
 
Thanks guys, really excited about it. Ive been lookin for a good deal on a anvil for a few years now. Indiana just isn't a place to find that deal evidently. Thinkin once I play with it some and get a forge build, its gonna open a whole new level of artistic ability for me.
 
Awesome Anvil Todd! Congrats man.




zuluninja said:
Nice score, Todd. Looking good in orange, WW! Got my 15 from Dex yesterday, always feel like a kid opening a Christmas present when a BK box arrives at my house! and again - BUY FROM DEX!!! even more so if you are a Beckerhead, it's a no-brainer to support your team. And I got a little hand written note with the ss hardware and a phone #, good to have even if it's a bit flirtatious from Dex :D I thoroughly searched the box but there was not a single piece of that fabulous beard in there to be found :D :D :D
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Thanks Zulu! Glad it made it man and thanks for the business. And yea I try to add a personal touch. Sorry my handwriting is so atrocious though. :)


That's so funny about the beard hair. I was actually packing up a large box for Todd today and as I was closing it up, I noticed a long ass beard hair mixed in with the packing peanuts! haha.

I removed it but all I could think was, damn I'm gonna have to start wearing a hair net on my face! lol
 
Dexwithers said:
Awesome Anvil Todd! Congrats man.






Thanks Zulu! Glad it made it man and thanks for the business. And yea I try to add a personal touch. Sorry my handwriting is so atrocious though. :)


That's so funny about the beard hair. I was actually packing up a large box for Todd today and as I was closing it up, I noticed a long ass beard hair mixed in with the packing peanuts! haha.

I removed it but all I could think was, damn I'm gonna have to start wearing a hair net on my face! lol
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Is this box you speak of going to smell like rotten apple snails when it gets here? :D
 
Got a cold in my lungs, and a bad cough from this past weekend. Sucks.
 
tradewater said:
Braggs apple cider vinegar and raw honey Dubz.
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:thumbup: for this. Haven't had a cold in 3 years since starting this - 50-50 mix, 3 tspns 3x / day. Not sure it works as well as a cure, but as a preventative I strongly support this message.
 
That's the 2nd reference to "raw" honey today. What is "raw" vs. "unraw" honey?
 
Unprocessed. Nothing added or subtracted, raw. I get it from my daughter.
 
Gotcha. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess the honey I bought from a local beekeeper last week is raw. The labeling on the Mason jar doesn't have all that much info. :)
 
DunkEm said:
Gotcha. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess the honey I bought from a local beekeeper last week is raw. The labeling on the Mason jar doesn't have all that much info. :)
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Yep, it probably is.

Raw honey is just filtered to remove the dead bees, bee legs, bee wings, bee antennae, hive beetles, bits of wax, etc from the honey after extraction. All the pollens are still there and so are all the aromatic flavors.

Commercial honey is heated to thin it so that it will pass through a VERY fine filter quickly. This fine filtration process removes nearly all the pollen from the honey. The purpose of this is to remove any potential base for sugaring to begin. When honey "sugars up", sugar crystals are forming around "contamination" in the honey. Some honeys sugar up faster than others. The rate of sugaring is determined by the level of particulate matter in the honey and the sugars used in making the honey. Cotton honey will sugar up at the drop of a hat. It has something to do with the ratio of glucose to sucrose to fructose to xxxose in the nectar gather from flowers.

A bad side effect of this filtering is the loss of the pollens. Ingestion of these pollens is what helps with allergies. However, the honey needs to be LOCAL honey for the healthful allergy fighting benefits to work. LOCAL honey is defined as being produce by bees within 50 miles of where you consume it.

A second negative side effect if flavor loss. When you heat the honey to thin it, most of the aromatic oils, flavors, etc are "boiled" off as they have a very low vaporization temperature. Commercial honey basically is just "sweet". Raw honey on the other hand is ambrosia. It just flat tastes better.

Most raw honey is just labeled "Wildflower Honey" because the beekeeper doesn't have a clue as to what was used to make it. He can guess based on hive location and time of year, but it's a mixture.

When you see "Clover Honey" or "Almond Honey" or "Anything Honey", what that means is that the hives were plopped down in the middle of a huge clover field, an almond orchard or an "anything orchard/field" as it begins to bloom. As soon as the bloom stage is over for that hive in that area, the honey is harvested so that no significant amount of other nectars are introduced. All this moving around is really hard on the bees, probably one of the causes of CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder, where commercial keepers have lost 60 - 80% of their hives in days or at most a couple of weeks. The bees are there one day and gone the next time the hive is checked.

The drought has been really hard on bees here in Texas for the last 3 years. Even with feeding them pollen patties and mixing up sugar water to substitute for nectar (which isn't good for them long term) I've gradually lost hives from a high of 10 to 5, and I'm not so sure that a couple of those won't crap out on me this winter.
 
That's a hell of score, Todd!

I found an anvil at a flea market a few weeks back. Busted at the hardy hole, but I think it will still work for my purposes.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
The drought has been really hard on bees here in Texas for the last 3 years. Even with feeding them pollen patties and mixing up sugar water to substitute for nectar (which isn't good for them long term) I've gradually lost hives from a high of 10 to 5, and I'm not so sure that a couple of those won't crap out on me this winter.
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Ouch! My grandfather had bees in Tennessee and we would get honey from him when I was a kid. It was always great stuff and I've since had a long term respect/interest in bees - though I hate all other forms of flying-stinging things. We recently had some crazy weed bloom among our bushes that was covered in bees and waited for them to be done with it before cutting it down. I had never seen anything like it, and didn't want it there, but knew there have been all kinds of bee problems in recent years, so we waited.

I've heard that the really local B/CS honey tastes quite a bit different and if you didn't grow up eating it, you won't like it. Some local flower must taste differently. Maybe my mystery weed. Who knows. I'll have to crack open the local stuff I bought and see just how local it is.

Thanks for all the good info.
 
I dont think i have ever had raw "local" honey.... I need to correct this problem soon.

When i went with my son on his field trip there was a bee hive on that farm. Maybe more than 1 but they brought one up to show everyone.

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I should of looked into getting a jar of the honey.
 
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