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The Tailgate / Re: Help me ID an old wooden i...
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday at 10:02:51 PMWow! Thank you! You guys are quick. I had a hunch it had something to do with a plug for a barrel but had not found it online. Now I see more holes through and how they line up to make a turn on and turn off spigot.
FYI I found it in an old drawer when helping my sister to clean out some old junk.
FYI I found it in an old drawer when helping my sister to clean out some old junk.
#12
The Tailgate / Re: Antler party 2026
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 09:42:12 PMLooks like a lot fun.
We need you to air one of these gatherings sometime. Go live...
We need you to air one of these gatherings sometime. Go live...
#13
The Tailgate / Re: Help me ID an old wooden i...
Last post by FinsnFur - Yesterday at 09:39:50 PMClyde if you have Chrome browser you can upload your image to the image search feature and get a lot of info on it.
If nastygunz can do it, you can too.
It's kind of fun, aint it nasty? 
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Here's what image search shows us on your pic.
If nastygunz can do it, you can too.
It's kind of fun, aint it nasty? You cannot view this attachment.Here's what image search shows us on your pic.
QuoteThis item is a vintage wooden barrel tap or spigot, likely used for dispensing beverages like whiskey or beer from a cask.
It features a manual handle on top to control liquid flow.
These items were often produced by companies like Redlich & Co. around the turn of the 20th century.
Similar items are frequently collected as primitive breweriana or rustic bar decor.
The example shown is approximately 8 to 10 inches in length.
#14
The Tailgate / Re: Help me ID an old wooden i...
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 09:05:12 PMBarrel/keg.
#15
The Tailgate / Re: Help me ID an old wooden i...
Last post by nastygunz - Yesterday at 09:04:48 PMBeer/liquor tap.
#16
The Tailgate / Help me ID an old wooden item
Last post by Okanagan - Yesterday at 07:38:38 PMWhat is it? It has a small peg inserted into a larger one.
#17
The Tailgate / Today in history 3-8
Last post by remrogers - Yesterday at 01:41:41 PM2014
March 8
Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes with more than 200 people aboard
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, loses contact with air traffic control less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, then veers off course and disappears. Most of the plane, and everyone on board, are never seen again.
The plane departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Beijing Capital International Airport at 6:30 a.m. local time. However, at 1:07 a.m., the aircraft's last automated position report was sent, and at 1:19 a.m. what turned out to be the final voice transmission from the cockpit of the doomed jetliner was relayed to air traffic controllers: "Good night Malaysian three seven zero," a message that suggested nothing out of the ordinary. About an hour after Flight 370 was scheduled to land in Beijing, Malaysia Airlines announced it was missing. Prior to the aircraft's mysterious disappearance, it had been flying seemingly without incident. There were no distress signals from the plane or reports of bad weather or technical problems.
The ensuing search for Flight 370 initially was centered on the Gulf of Thailand, where the plane was traveling when radar contact was lost. Investigators looked into the possibility of terrorist involvement in the plane's disappearance after it was discovered that two passengers had been using stolen passports; however, this theory, at least in relation to the two men, soon was determined to be unlikely. (The people onboard Flight 370 represented 15 nations, with more than half the passengers from China and three from the United States) Then, on March 15, investigators said that satellite transmissions indicated Flight 370 had turned sharply off its assigned course and flown west over the Indian Ocean, operating on its own for five hours or more. On March 24, Malaysia's prime minister announced the flight was presumed lost somewhere in the Indian Ocean, with no survivors. As the search for the aircraft continued, with more than two dozen nations, including the United States, participating in the effort, the mystery of how a commercial jetliner could vanish without a trace received global media attention.
In June 2014, Australian officials involved in the investigation said radar records suggested Flight 370 likely was flying on autopilot for hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. The officials did not publicly speculate about who put the plane on autopilot after it veered off course or why, although they did indicate it was possible the crew and passengers had become unresponsive due to hypoxia, or oxygen loss, sometime before the plane crashed. No explanation for what might have caused the oxygen deprivation was provided by the officials.
Meanwhile, other authorities suggested one of the pilots of Flight 370 could have deliberately flown the aircraft into the Indian Ocean on a suicide mission, although there was no conclusive evidence to support this theory.
Throughout 2015 and 2016, debris from the aircraft washed ashore on the western Indian Ocean, but the fate of Flight 370 remains a mystery.
On July 17, 2014, four months after Flight 370 vanished, tragedy struck again for Malaysia Airlines, when one of its planes was shot down over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. All 298 people aboard the aircraft, also a Boeing 777, perished. European and American officials believe Flight 17, which took off from Amsterdam and was en route to Kuala Lumpur, was downed by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists battling the Ukrainian government. The rebel leaders and President Vladimir Putin of Russia denied any responsibility for the incident.
March 8
Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes with more than 200 people aboard
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members, loses contact with air traffic control less than an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur, then veers off course and disappears. Most of the plane, and everyone on board, are never seen again.
The plane departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Beijing Capital International Airport at 6:30 a.m. local time. However, at 1:07 a.m., the aircraft's last automated position report was sent, and at 1:19 a.m. what turned out to be the final voice transmission from the cockpit of the doomed jetliner was relayed to air traffic controllers: "Good night Malaysian three seven zero," a message that suggested nothing out of the ordinary. About an hour after Flight 370 was scheduled to land in Beijing, Malaysia Airlines announced it was missing. Prior to the aircraft's mysterious disappearance, it had been flying seemingly without incident. There were no distress signals from the plane or reports of bad weather or technical problems.
The ensuing search for Flight 370 initially was centered on the Gulf of Thailand, where the plane was traveling when radar contact was lost. Investigators looked into the possibility of terrorist involvement in the plane's disappearance after it was discovered that two passengers had been using stolen passports; however, this theory, at least in relation to the two men, soon was determined to be unlikely. (The people onboard Flight 370 represented 15 nations, with more than half the passengers from China and three from the United States) Then, on March 15, investigators said that satellite transmissions indicated Flight 370 had turned sharply off its assigned course and flown west over the Indian Ocean, operating on its own for five hours or more. On March 24, Malaysia's prime minister announced the flight was presumed lost somewhere in the Indian Ocean, with no survivors. As the search for the aircraft continued, with more than two dozen nations, including the United States, participating in the effort, the mystery of how a commercial jetliner could vanish without a trace received global media attention.
In June 2014, Australian officials involved in the investigation said radar records suggested Flight 370 likely was flying on autopilot for hours before it ran out of fuel and crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. The officials did not publicly speculate about who put the plane on autopilot after it veered off course or why, although they did indicate it was possible the crew and passengers had become unresponsive due to hypoxia, or oxygen loss, sometime before the plane crashed. No explanation for what might have caused the oxygen deprivation was provided by the officials.
Meanwhile, other authorities suggested one of the pilots of Flight 370 could have deliberately flown the aircraft into the Indian Ocean on a suicide mission, although there was no conclusive evidence to support this theory.
Throughout 2015 and 2016, debris from the aircraft washed ashore on the western Indian Ocean, but the fate of Flight 370 remains a mystery.
On July 17, 2014, four months after Flight 370 vanished, tragedy struck again for Malaysia Airlines, when one of its planes was shot down over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. All 298 people aboard the aircraft, also a Boeing 777, perished. European and American officials believe Flight 17, which took off from Amsterdam and was en route to Kuala Lumpur, was downed by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists battling the Ukrainian government. The rebel leaders and President Vladimir Putin of Russia denied any responsibility for the incident.
#18
The Tailgate / Re: Antler party 2026
Last post by nastygunz - March 07, 2026, 06:16:05 PMGood times!
#19
The Tailgate / Antler party 2026
Last post by Okanagan - March 07, 2026, 03:42:17 PMThis year at our annual antler party 14 of us showed up, down a little on family but we had three guests. Several antlers from this year shown below, though not all were in the pic. Good food, good people, fun stories.
Each year after the Fall hunting seasons, the hunters in my family get together and swap hunt stories and bring antlers, hides, etc. from the recent seasons. My family tagged 16 big game animals this past year, including a grandson who has moved to Idaho and did not come over for the party. He got a bear, a big 4x4 mule deer in Idaho plus a 6x6 elk and a dandy 4x4 mule deer in Montana.
For some reason I have to log out and log back in for each photo I post here from Imgur.
Rack from a pretty big blacktail buck below, taken by my son near timberline, several miles to pack out. The buck was near toothless, with no fat and tips of antlers broken probably from fighting, a really old fellow.
Bull elk pic below taken by the same son in Montana while hunting with his son, who got a bigger one! (not shown here).
And food... pulled pork and ribs below.
Each year after the Fall hunting seasons, the hunters in my family get together and swap hunt stories and bring antlers, hides, etc. from the recent seasons. My family tagged 16 big game animals this past year, including a grandson who has moved to Idaho and did not come over for the party. He got a bear, a big 4x4 mule deer in Idaho plus a 6x6 elk and a dandy 4x4 mule deer in Montana.
For some reason I have to log out and log back in for each photo I post here from Imgur.
Rack from a pretty big blacktail buck below, taken by my son near timberline, several miles to pack out. The buck was near toothless, with no fat and tips of antlers broken probably from fighting, a really old fellow.
Bull elk pic below taken by the same son in Montana while hunting with his son, who got a bigger one! (not shown here).
And food... pulled pork and ribs below.
#20
The Tailgate / Today in history 3-7
Last post by remrogers - March 07, 2026, 10:56:53 AM1876
March 7
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone.
The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. In the 1870s, the Bells moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where the younger Bell found work as a teacher at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf. He later married one of his students, Mabel Hubbard.
While in Boston, Bell became very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the telegraph in 1843 had made nearly instantaneous communication possible between two distant points. The drawback of the telegraph, however, was that it still required hand-delivery of messages between telegraph stations and recipients, and only one message could be transmitted at a time. Bell wanted to improve on this by creating a "harmonic telegraph," a device that combined aspects of the telegraph and record player to allow individuals to speak to each other from a distance.
With the help of Thomas A. Watson, a Boston machine shop employee, Bell developed a prototype. In this first telephone, sound waves caused an electric current to vary in intensity and frequency, causing a thin, soft iron plate–called the diaphragm–to vibrate. These vibrations were transferred magnetically to another wire connected to a diaphragm in another, distant instrument. When that diaphragm vibrated, the original sound would be replicated in the ear of the receiving instrument. Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message—the famous "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you"—from Bell to his assistant.
March 7
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone.
The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. In the 1870s, the Bells moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where the younger Bell found work as a teacher at the Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf. He later married one of his students, Mabel Hubbard.
While in Boston, Bell became very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the telegraph in 1843 had made nearly instantaneous communication possible between two distant points. The drawback of the telegraph, however, was that it still required hand-delivery of messages between telegraph stations and recipients, and only one message could be transmitted at a time. Bell wanted to improve on this by creating a "harmonic telegraph," a device that combined aspects of the telegraph and record player to allow individuals to speak to each other from a distance.
With the help of Thomas A. Watson, a Boston machine shop employee, Bell developed a prototype. In this first telephone, sound waves caused an electric current to vary in intensity and frequency, causing a thin, soft iron plate–called the diaphragm–to vibrate. These vibrations were transferred magnetically to another wire connected to a diaphragm in another, distant instrument. When that diaphragm vibrated, the original sound would be replicated in the ear of the receiving instrument. Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message—the famous "Mr. Watson, come here, I need you"—from Bell to his assistant.