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Who needs a man once an Alaska girl has mastered the chain saw?
Alaska Dispatch News ^
| August 16, 2014
| Laureli Kinneen
Posted on 08/17/2014 4:02:20 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman
NOME -- I used to joke and tell my friends that other than for obvious reasons, I only need a man to operate my chain saw. Because really, Im an Alaska girl, and can bleed the line when I run out of fuel at the house. I thaw my pipes when they freeze. I can change a flat tire, butcher a caribou and catch, filet, smoke and can a silver salmon. Oh, and shoot a few ptarmigan with a .22 for dinner. You know. Normal stuff.
But heres the thing. Ive relied on a man for seven years to supply the wood for the stove. And its embarrassing.
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TOPICS: Education; Local News; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: feminism; humor; independence; selfreliance
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To: Edward Teach
Funny...come to think of it now I remember reading about a similar technique in Swiss family Robinson, using something like a bicycle pump.
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Useful for small animals and birds. Learned from an old taxidermist, useful to harvest feather and fur for fly tying purposes. Think there is pertinent on the web....google bait
81
posted on
08/17/2014 7:46:34 PM PDT
by
S.O.S121.500
(Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
To: armydawg505
Uh, how many of those fatherless thugs had a father that chose not to be there? How many mothers of those fatherless thugs expected the father to stay around and not go off and bed another?
How many men are creating fatherless thugs and blaming the women for their sperm causing a pregnancy?
Marry the right one, stay married and have healthier kids. The studies prove this, and you allude to it in your words.
But this better way does not always happen. It can be either partner, but when the woman is left with the kids, don’t be harsh about her learning how to survive without the guy.
82
posted on
08/17/2014 7:57:24 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Does your sister need a husband? I promise to let her run the chainsaw all she wants.
83
posted on
08/17/2014 8:09:02 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: ConservativeMind
Was taught by another farmers wife, her hubby didn't like skinning goats...(we raised Angora and the hide was worth anywhere from 60 to 100 dollars. Twice what a live one cost. I hung the goat from the head. With the single edge razor blade make a small (about an inch) incision at the front leg (knee area) You have to be very careful not to cut into the meat, the razor gives you good control of the depth of the incision....with a trigger on the air compressor, insert into incision and run it for about 7 seconds (depends on the size of the animal). It blows up like a balloon in the Macys day parade. do the other leg the same way. The compressor leaves large air bubbles where it has pulled the hide from the meat. I would go down the belly of the goat, the skin is thinner there thats how I nicked the bladder on my first. Hide comes off easy. The most important thing is NOT to cut into the flesh. You can tell when to stop as there is fascia between the hide and the flesh.....If I can do it anyone can. There hide is so thick and they have long curly hair that it took a couple of weeks of daily salting to prep it for the tanner. I sent my to Pennsylvania to be tanned. The place in Bucks county was the cheapest and they did a great job. that was years ago, I don't think I left out anything important. Most of the work is just popping the bubbles after your done with the legs. I talked with the taxidermist up in town and he wasn't too sure of my way....went into his shop one day and he said someone brought him a coon (fresh road kill) and he tried the compressor and razor blade...Laughing he said it worked great on the coon as he usually has problems doing a coon foot, with the 5 fingers on each foot..
To: goat granny
Amazing. I'm telling this to my wife now.
Many thanks for the insight. I had no idea it could be done this way. When my dad and I did it, it was a knife the whole way. What's funny is that when I was 15, I used my detasseling money to buy us a good Craftsman air compressor for the things I knew could be done with it. This would have been wonderful to have seen at that age.
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posted on
08/17/2014 8:27:50 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: Foundahardheadedwoman
86
posted on
08/17/2014 8:32:45 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: BipolarBob
"Laureli grew up listening to KNOM while camping and fishing; in 2001, she moved to Nome with her husband and cherished nine years hanging out at home with their two children, Joe and Sidney."
she had one at at least some points. Now? not so clear.
87
posted on
08/17/2014 8:46:13 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Jack Hydrazine
The length of her hair tells me she doesn’t spend 30 minutes a day messing with it and she doesn’t waste a whole lot of cash on hairdressers.
88
posted on
08/17/2014 8:54:33 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: B4Ranch
I tend to notice that women with short hair are more independent. If they are independent then they don’t need a man. And that’s okay because it’s her choice.
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posted on
08/17/2014 9:01:05 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: ConservativeMind
"many men in this thread feel threatened by a woman saying she can now cut her own wood. "
I only fear a woman who won't bring me a cold beer when I'm in the middle of fixin' something, dirty, should be kept out of the kitchen, and have nicely asked.
I'm workin' on training my dog, but she is a Chesapeake and may not come around to being that useful.
90
posted on
08/17/2014 9:09:26 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Jack Hydrazine
Just maybe the man in her life is lousy in bed.
91
posted on
08/17/2014 9:30:30 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: SkyDancer
Not so far. Do they look anything like kangaroos? Do they bite, sting, or kick? Don’t worry, I will do my best to protect you from them.
To: Tax-chick
I think people should be able to run their lives however they want. If she runs the chainsaw and he pickles fish, whose business is it but theirs?I agree! To each their own.
93
posted on
08/17/2014 9:33:15 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: ConservativeMind
“This thread is showing latent hostilities from some of the men here I would not have thought would have had a problem.
When a woman to get past her fears to help her family survivethis is a truly good thing. Theres not a single shred of sanity in these negative posts. Its obvious this lady has a sense of humor and is talking to other women who can understand.”
Another voice of sanity. I would not have believed the bitterness I have read here over what I thought was a humorous article. I come from a place where some men think their woman, they own em you know, should walk 6 feet behind them. The women I have known have always been welcome beside me.
To: ConservativeMind
I was interested in the thread because of the novelty of life in Alaska. I was a bit surprised when it turned into criticism of the young lady.
Oh, well.
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posted on
08/18/2014 2:47:50 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
To: Rodamala
Probably shouldn’t put a chainsaw in her hands. Her nickname growing up was “the spazz.”
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posted on
08/18/2014 1:28:06 PM PDT
by
Wyrd bið ful aræd
(Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.)
To: Free Vulcan
Your animosity is unwarranted.
How in the world can you pull that from the story? What if her husband has died?
This lady is chumming with the girls, encouraging them to be willing to try doing what the guys might normally do. You and I can’t live forever. If it were possible that you could ever marry a great lady, wouldn’t you want her to be able to cut wood or, maybe even defend herself with a freaking gun? What if YOU died? Would you want her to be helpless?
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posted on
08/18/2014 5:01:19 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
To: Free Vulcan
98
posted on
08/18/2014 5:05:56 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: eastforker
99
posted on
08/18/2014 5:07:55 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: BipolarBob
100
posted on
08/18/2014 5:08:23 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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