I seem to be hit or miss at my Jam. Sometimes it sets up just right, sometimes it is full soup! I have four pints of Strawberry-Rhubarb that I have to re-do now. I have some tips from Ball on how to re-set jam that did not take, but is there a way to really tell it is ready to pull off the...
Thank you, it was a great feeling to get her up and running again. It will start on the first pull every time and idles so low it is not even funny! I happen to have a video of it running on You-tube if you search for my same user name here.
The Troy's really are a dream to till a garden...
Our garden is modest (25'x50') But I think the size will stay. My next plans are to enclose the garden with a split rail fence (with metal mesh fence on the inside attached to the posts.) I want to design it so the ends can have the mesh and rails removed in order to till. I plan to screw...
Good advice... You can not beat the Troy's, mine is the one my Dad bought in 1981. I finished a ground up restoration on it last year and it is amazing. I also have a plow blade for it, and use it to plow my driveway in the winter! (Tines removed of course!)
It was in god shape overall, I had...
You are almost half way there.... You just need to find someone with rhubarb, and then you make jam! I just cracked open another pint to top off an english muffin tonight.
Then you have strawberry-rhubarb pie, and oh the list goes on!