Smoked Salmon and Moving Big Trees Off a Neighbor’s Road

Thursday July 24, 2025 Guerneville CA.

I ran into Tom this morning and he said it’d be a good day to cut the big logs off our neighbor’s road, this afternoon. I  said ok, come by later in the day and we’ll go up there and take care of that.

Smoked salmon

In the mean time,  I took a sample piece of smoked salmon over to the neighbor who gave me the salmon, to let him try it out to see if he liked it.

He did and it disappeared fast. I’ll be doing some more smoking soon.

Forest work

Later Tom showed up and we rode in his rig up to where Skiddy was parked and cranked it up to warm up a bit.rig1

We drove on down to where the road was that had a few big oak trees that had fallen across the road and blocked it. The road started here at this spring area.rigs2

Tom made some cuts in the big tree so I could push the logs off the road which I did with Skiddy’s help.logs3

We had two  more trees like that one which we cleared off the road. That was all we wanted to do for now. I’ll be back later to smooth the road out to make it better to travel on, but not today.

Nice day.

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Putting the Smoker To the Test With Fish

Wednesday July 23, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Smoking fish

I had a few pieces of salmon to test the system out today. I thought I’d only try a few pieces to test the system out so if things didn’t work out too good, I’d have another chance with the rest of the salmon.

I got the firebox fire going around one.smoker1

It didn’t take long to get smoke going.fire2

Lot’s of smoke going.smoke3

The fish is starting to show some color from the smoke.fish4

It’s almost done here, just need to get it up to around 145 F. They didn’t all reach that temperature at the same time so I took the ones out as they reached that temp.fish5

It took me longer to get them up to 145 F. than I thought. I think I just need the fire to be a bit hotter sooner.

Here’s the finished product which I will sample later, or tomorrow after they cool down.fish6

Well, I didn’t wait very long and tried it and it’s good.

Nice day.

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