PIG Party

[Bree]

So I go over to this Wild Hogs PIG Party today where they are roasting a whole pig. I look over to the side of the huge roasting oven and see this pile of wood scraps they are using to roast the pig.

It's ALL Walnut!!

Geez Louise... So I start rummaging through the pile... scrounging just like we used to do in college when everyone went home for the summer. I find out that some company that makes walnut plaques cuts off all the "defective" highly figured wood. The pig guy got a load of cutoffs for firewood by buying the plaque guy a 12 pack!

Anyhoo I lickety split loaded up two boxes of walnut!! Everyone was drinking and eating chips while I was sorting through a pile of walnut for the best cutoffs. I filled the XL Biker bag on my Wide Glide with walnut and then I have another box full that is being brought back in a friend's truck.

My cost... make a pen for the pig guy's wife. LOL!

The rest of the people have NO IDEA what I am going to do with all that "JUNK" walnut. They think I am nuts! Heck I recently paid $50 for a box full of similar stuff and felt like it was a steal for the volume of spectacular wood I scored.

I love this hobby!
:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[hewunch]

I don't know if I would eat pick smoked over walnut. The fumes of walnut can be hazardous

 

[wolftat]

Many years ago I went to a pig roast, luckily the pig was burnt on the out side and frozen still on the inside. The reason this is lucky was the idiots cooking it were using pressure treated decking cut-offs for this. The following year one of my brothers did the cookiing for them and everything was much better. I would say walnut is a little bit better, but not by much. Tell these guys to think oak and maple for the next pig, I'll even come out and give them a hand if they want. My family has been cooking pigs for parties and doing catering as far back as I can remember, in fact I am giving away a 275 gallon smoker on a trailer right now.

 

[bitshird]

Y'all don't appreciate the finer things in life, A Pig should be Roasted/ or even better Smoked with Hickory, Apple or Mesquite, Maple will do if there isn't any thing better, but Hickory or Apple are both superb for cookin our Porcine friends, at least that's the general consensus in The Barbecue Capitol of the world, Memfus Tenuhsee trust me Barbecuing is about the only thing they can do right, an dey sho is good at it.

 

[Bree]

I got paged out before the pig was done so I had to leave before they dove in. So I am probably the only one not sick today! LOL!!!

And I have the walnut for turning!! Last night I milled two 6" x 5" boards into 3/4" and 7/8" jumbos from the stash I brought home yesterday . KILLER blanks! Wow are they nice. If I get a chance I will snap a PIC and post.

 

[jfoh]

No firewood pile is safe from a pen turner. If a pen turner sees a piece of wood on the side of the road, while driving, he looks at it and take note of what it looks like. The worse it looks the more likely we are to go back. Spalting is sexy lines to us, knots, bends and crotch are things of beauty to us. Clean, straight grain wood is just firewood to us. Wood hoarding is a disease which can only be treated by having a double garage filled with our finds.

Nice find at the pig roast and now you have another source of walnut. Sometimes a free pen will get you more free wood than all the cash in your wallet could buy. Plus it turns the person who gets the free pen into someone who looks for wood for you hoping for another free pen. I just wish I could find free pen kits. That would save me a boat load of money.

 

[mtgrizzly52]

Many years ago I went to a pig roast, luckily the pig was burnt on the out side and frozen still on the inside. The reason this is lucky was the idiots cooking it were using pressure treated decking cut-offs for this. The following year one of my brothers did the cookiing for them and everything was much better. I would say walnut is a little bit better, but not by much. Tell these guys to think oak and maple for the next pig, I'll even come out and give them a hand if they want. My family has been cooking pigs for parties and doing catering as far back as I can remember, in fact I am giving away a 275 gallon smoker on a trailer right now.

You're "Giving Away" a smoker on a trailer? Ummmm, tell me more. PM me if you don't mind and thanks! *GRIN*

Rick(mtgrizzly52)