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LMAO!! I prolly got another several months before mine is that long.


But what i do know is that dude has some serious skills in the man-scaping department. The tribal chest hair is a trend in the making im sure :D
 
I made this leather sheath for fits tweeners 16, 16 scandi and 17 or knives close to tweener size. it's available if anybody is interested.
 
Guyon.. You have pecan trees in/on your yard/property?

Are the nuts a PITA?

That sounds like a bad joke, but what i mean is, is it a pain to keep up with the nuts?... Damn... Still sounds like a bad joke.

Nuts fall, you pick them up or they get caught in lawn mower etc yes? Do they drop nuts often? How often do you have to pick these nuts up? Do the nuts get very big?

There was no away around it sounding like a bad joke so i just embraced it. But im truly curious. Pecan trees are awesome. Nice shade. Grow big. A good looking tree really... Just curious if the nuts get to be a pain.
 
First time out. Fearless machine. She climbed for three hours straight. I sent my first 5.11 to boot.

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worldwood said:
Guyon.. You have pecan trees in/on your yard/property?

Are the nuts a PITA?

That sounds like a bad joke, but what i mean is, is it a pain to keep up with the nuts?... Damn... Still sounds like a bad joke.

Nuts fall, you pick them up or they get caught in lawn mower etc yes? Do they drop nuts often? How often do you have to pick these nuts up? Do the nuts get very big?

There was no away around it sounding like a bad joke so i just embraced it. But im truly curious. Pecan trees are awesome. Nice shade. Grow big. A good looking tree really... Just curious if the nuts get to be a pain.
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WW - I've got 20 at one place, 3 at another, 5 at a third plus an unknown number of natives along the creek.

Pecans are biennial, meaning they produce pecans every year, but only produce a heavy crop one year followed by a light (relatively) crop the next.

Smaller, native pecans CAN BE sucked up by a lawn mower and become projectiles flying from the discharge shoot, but usually they don't. The larger improved nuts can easily become missiles if not picked up before mowing.

If your lawn/gravel/dirt under the trees is well maintained, you can use a manual pecan picker-upper (google "nut weasel" as an example) for most of them. There will ALWAYS be the tempermental stubborn as a mule nuts that reject all attempts at mechanical pickup. Tall grass and weeds, large rocks and other obstacles will inhibit or prohibit the use of mechanical pickers.

Pecans make for absolutely beautiful and large shade trees (some of mine are 80 - 90 years old and 50 - 60 feet high with 40 foot diameter canopies. The down side is they grow VERY, VERY SLOWLY. I have one in the front yard that is pushing 30 years old and this year was the first year to make a substantial nut crop. The trunk is only 10 to 12 inches in diameter and the tree is only about 25 feet high. You plant pecan trees for your children, grand-children and great-grand-children.

Nut size varies by variety. Native pecans come in two shapes, elongated and round, and range in size from 3/8" in diameter and 3/4" long with round ones being 1/2" to 5/8" in diameter. Their shells are significantly harder to crack and remove. They tend to grow both larger and slower that "paper-shell" varieties. The "improved, Paper-shell" varieties produce larger nuts and and the shells are significantly easier to crack and remove. The improved varieties also manifest as round or oblong, depending on their ancestor natives. Native nuts taste better than papershells... more nut oil per volume of nut meat.

One needs to check with their local Ag offices to see what varieties are best for the target area. What works well in Texas will suck, comparatively, in another climate, say Georgia, Florida or Iowa, due to differences in annual chill hours, and climate overall. Natives tend to do well anywhere.

Also a sapling tthat sprouts from a papershell nut will be a native. Regardless of variety. Every time. Varieties are propagated by grafting only.
 
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I saw that Murph followed me on Instagram after I followed him. I feel so special! *tear to the eye*
Honestly though, some great pics of knives on Insta.
 
tradewater said:
I've been drinking JD and water lately. It's important to stay hydrated. :thumbup:
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Agree,

Have one for me as I'm currently busy bbqing.




WW, I have beard envy. I can't grow facial hair. For all of us men who can't you need to keep that sucker going till its like ZZ-Top long. Or the wife tell you to get rid of it lol.

Maybe one day I'll be able to visit ya on the way to my inlaws place in Florida, then I can taste your nuts :D <-- haha



Also, I stripped one of my 15's and have it in vinegar right now. I want a dark patina, how long should I leave it in there for?
 
TBL said:
Agree,

Have one for me as I'm currently busy bbqing.




WW, I have beard envy. I can't grow facial hair. For all of us men who can't you need to keep that sucker going till its like ZZ-Top long. Or the wife tell you to get rid of it lol.

Maybe one day I'll be able to visit ya on the way to my inlaws place in Florida, then I can taste your nuts :D <-- haha



Also, I stripped one of my 15's and have it in vinegar right now. I want a dark patina, how long should I leave it in there for?
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zzyzzogeton said:
WW - I've got 20 at one place, 3 at another, 5 at a third plus an unknown number of natives along the creek.

Pecans are biennial, meaning they produce pecans every year, but only produce a heavy crop one year followed by a light (relatively) crop the next.

Smaller, native pecans CAN BE sucked up by a lawn mower and become projectiles flying from the discharge shoot, but usually they don't. The larger improved nuts can easily become missiles if not picked up before mowing.

If your lawn/gravel/dirt under the trees is well maintained, you can use a manual pecan picker-upper (google "nut weasel" as an example) for most of them. There will ALWAYS be the tempermental stubborn as a mule nuts that reject all attempts at mechanical pickup. Tall grass and weeds, large rocks and other obstacles will inhibit or prohibit the use of mechanical pickers.

Pecans make for absolutely beautiful and large shade trees (some of mine are 80 - 90 years old and 50 - 60 feet high with 40 foot diameter canopies. The down side is they grow VERY, VERY SLOWLY. I have one in the front yard that is pushing 30 years old and this year was the first year to make a substantial nut crop. The trunk is only 10 to 12 inches in diameter and the tree is only about 25 feet high. You plant pecan trees for your children, grand-children and great-grand-children.

Nut size varies by variety. Native pecans come in two shapes, elongated and round, and range in size from 3/8" in diameter and 3/4" long with round ones being 1/2" to 5/8" in diameter. Their shells are significantly harder to crack and remove. They tend to grow both larger and slower that "paper-shell" varieties. The "improved, Paper-shell" varieties produce larger nuts and and the shells are significantly easier to crack and remove. The improved varieties also manifest as round or oblong, depending on their ancestor natives. Native nuts taste better than papershells... more nut oil per volume of nut meat.

One needs to check with their local Ag offices to see what varieties are best for the target area. What works well in Texas will suck, comparatively, in another climate, say Georgia, Florida or Iowa, due to differences in annual chill hours, and climate overall. Natives tend to do well anywhere.

Also a sapling tthat sprouts from a papershell nut will be a native. Regardless of variety. Every time. Varieties are propagated by grafting only.
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Thanks for the info bud!! I didnt know they took that long to grow. See... My wife asked about planting pecan trees once we move.... And personally I like the pecan trees more than the pecans themselves. I like them, but just a few here and there... The wife would eat them, she loves em... Kids would prolly eat a few too.... But id be the one picking them up before mowing because they'd never pick them ALL up to eat... But now that i know it would take around 30 years to produce nuts.. Ill tell her "sure baby ill plant them just for you" :D
 
TBL said:
WW, I have beard envy. I can't grow facial hair. For all of us men who can't you need to keep that sucker going till its like ZZ-Top long. Or the wife tell you to get rid of it lol.

Maybe one day I'll be able to visit ya on the way to my inlaws place in Florida, then I can taste your nuts :D <-- haha
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The wife likes the beard... Been growing it for about 5 months now and a couple times it got wild or annoying and i was going to cut it off but the wife stopped me. It never itches anymore, its nice and soft now, and normally a little coconut oil makes it do whatever i want... But lately... It has a mind of its own LMAO

The mustache is a different story. It grows CRAZY fast. I have to trim it every week or so or it covers my lip. Its due for a trimming now. I normally cut the stache and top of my head both to a number 2 on the clippers... The beard i havent cut/trimmed at all in 5 months. Longest i have ever let it go.


And come on down... But from the sounds of it, the only fresh nuts your likely to taste will be Neko's if you fall asleep on the couch. :D
 
Pecans are a GIANT pain to shell by hand... a year or two ago, Angie found a bag of the whole nuts really cheap so we gave it a try... yeahh... probably not gonna to do that again. As I recall, Guyon told me he gathers up the nuts from his family's property and take them to a place with a machine that shells them for him. Once they're shelled, they're easy to season and roast, and it makes the house smell really nice.
 
worldwood said:
The wife likes the beard... Been growing it for about 5 months now and a couple times it got wild or annoying and i was going to cut it off but the wife stopped me. It never itches anymore, its nice and soft now, and normally a little coconut oil makes it do whatever i want... But lately... It has a mind of its own LMAO

The mustache is a different story. It grows CRAZY fast. I have to trim it every week or so or it covers my lip. Its due for a trimming now. I normally cut the stache and top of my head both to a number 2 on the clippers... The beard i havent cut/trimmed at all in 5 months. Longest i have ever let it go.


And come on down... But from the sounds of it, the only fresh nuts your likely to taste will be Neko's if you fall asleep on the couch. :D
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My 'stache does the same thing. I took a few months off from swimming a couple years ago (I swam competitively for a couple decades) and had a pretty good mustache going - I was waxing it and everything. Got in the pool and waterboarded myself, totally by surprise. Turned to take my first breath and inhaled water and mustache....and totally panicked for a second. I like being able to do the handlebar thing, but.....I don't let it get that long anymore.
 
worldwood said:
And come on down... But from the sounds of it, the only fresh nuts your likely to taste will be Neko's if you fall asleep on the couch. :D
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No worries. I'll just wash the taste out of my mouth with some of this;

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Did a little work in the garage tonight. Ended up in a stripped / patina'd / and reprofiled 15 :D

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