We gave up on ostriches around 2000. It seems like another life ago, but yeah we ate our share.

 

Tastes like chicken?


Actually the first ostrich I had was in at a restaurant in Frankfurt Germany.....I was over there on a military trip in 2003.... I ordered it right off the menu. The waitress asked me how I wanted it cooked and I asked how can I have it?

She said it's pretty good rare so I said "go for it"!! When it came out, I thought got steak!

It was a LOT like beef except no fat. really excellent!

I always like to try something new......

I have not seen it around here at all though...

 

I attended two open air markets in Portland and two here in S. OR each week from spring to fall selling vacuum sealed frozen meat, along with a few feathers and blown eggs, jerky, polish sausage and whatever else seemed sellable. Still had to take care of operations, as the wife was working PT. Birds were trailored 150 miles to a USDA plant in Lakeview 8 at a time. The first two trips there required me working on the kill and skinning floor because nobody knew what to do, including the USDA inspector whose fee I paid. The processed meat had to be picked up 10 days later. Two years of that was enough. That is the reason nothing was done on my truck from '94 to 2002, no time or money.

The operation wasnt large, but substantial. 3000 lbs of bulk feed pellets per month, which I picked up 30 miles away. That reminds me of a semi-funny experience in hauling feed. The 3/4 ton would be completely full, as well as a little trailor made from a 1946 Ford pickup bed. Axle for the trailor was a '46 front axle with the stock spindles, on the original '46 rear springs. One day after filling I stopped to check something before going over a good size hill. Looked at the trailor from behind and both wheels were severly tilted inward at their top from the spindles flexing under the 1100 lb load. Last time for the trailor hauling feed.

Sorry for the sidetrack Low54.

 

Fella's I got studs but needed to ask about the brass nuts your the manifold using...does brass expand with manifold heat? is that why your using them and not lock washers? I know the rams horns would crack with the excessive heat and no give under heat...I wanted to clarify this before attaching them...

 

I'll probably use flat washers.

I don't think there has to be a lot of give.......... just don't tighten them too much.

I want to use brass nuts so there's no rust..

 

I used the brass because I always have on exhaust studs of any variety. They dont seize up like steel nuts. Regarding lock washers...back in the early '70s I had a very radical Harley Panhead. When it came time to fire up the engine, head gasket blew. Replaced it, blew again, and then once more. Finally had a pair of special custom one of a kind copper gaskets made, and they blew. The problem was lock washers under the bolts holding the cylinder to the head. When they heated up they relaxed and the torque on the head bolts relaxed too. So right or wrong, on exhaust manifolds, extra thickness flatwashers are my choice.