Let's talk about pit cooking.
I remember, as a child, a backhoe coming in, digging a hole, some fire being laid, then a steer, some goats, and maybe a turkey or two were laid in before the next layers of earth and fire.
My next memory is the mens shoveling down aways, the machine bringing up the steer (rear hock first, butchering style), all the wimmens workn on folding tables to carve up the meat, and so much fun that us kids started chucking rocks at passing cars (but that's for another thread).
Seems like that was the tastiest meat I ever ate, tho youth and hunger prolly added some flavor.
I bring this up cuz a buddy asked me to help w/dead standing trees, says there's plenty of low n broken to start burning, and then sends a snap of a 6'x25' hole on the property recently inhereited. Looks like a pit roast to me.....
Ideas ('sides inviting you all), and suggestions welcomed. Might make it an occasion at my place as well, when fence building time comes.
I remember, as a child, a backhoe coming in, digging a hole, some fire being laid, then a steer, some goats, and maybe a turkey or two were laid in before the next layers of earth and fire.
My next memory is the mens shoveling down aways, the machine bringing up the steer (rear hock first, butchering style), all the wimmens workn on folding tables to carve up the meat, and so much fun that us kids started chucking rocks at passing cars (but that's for another thread).
Seems like that was the tastiest meat I ever ate, tho youth and hunger prolly added some flavor.
I bring this up cuz a buddy asked me to help w/dead standing trees, says there's plenty of low n broken to start burning, and then sends a snap of a 6'x25' hole on the property recently inhereited. Looks like a pit roast to me.....
Ideas ('sides inviting you all), and suggestions welcomed. Might make it an occasion at my place as well, when fence building time comes.
