The grill I won at the Super1 Grocery store is something I have no use for. It is listed on Amazon for $473. {Search if you want: Blackstone Omnivore Outdoor Flat Top Gas Griddle w/ Hard Cover, 36” flat top griddle with 4 independently controlled burners.}
The cooking surface, the griddle plate, is heavy, with a system total weight of over 140 pounds.
I gave it to the Kittitas County Sheriff Department (home to Search and Rescue, also). Two deputies came to pick it up. The photo was taken just as darkness settled around us. That’s officer Mike, the grill, and me in the photo. I was asked if they could put the photo on their Sheriff’s Facebook page. With my good behavior, I expect this to be my only appearance there.
Mike’s colleague has an older model and was aware that the table and legs could be folded up. That made getting it into the back of a pickup (F250) with a hard tonneau* cover much easier than when I brought it home. The package does not include a propane tank. I was assured the office had a few.
*The term “tonneau” comes from the French word meaning “cask” or “barrel.” It originally referred to an open rear passenger compartment in early automobiles, which had a rounded shape similar to a barrel. [I had to look it up.] The Wikipedia page for “tonneau” has photos of two historic autos with tonneaus.
I had the grill parked under the back patio roof where I store ½ cord of wood. It is a stash I use when the winter temperature is near Zero or the weather is nasty. When I came home with the grill I backed the pickup close to the pallet-structure and rolled it off – thereby obstructing the place for the wood.
The pallet size for a 53-foot trailer measures 48 inches long by 40 inches wide. For half of a cord the size needs to be 4 feet on each side (4X4X4), so filled fully it is a bit short. I now have it about half full – to be completed this week. I have it in a shed 100 yards away. When the weather is 10°F, it is snowing, and the wind is 20 mph this is not a fun chore. This, then, is wood for hard times.
I’ve been using the 14″ SKILL electric chainsaw for cutting branches and trunks into wood-stove-size. The weather was nice so I dropped three 10″ size trees [dead 2 years], cut the trunks into sizes I can lift (fresh wood is 40% water and much heavier), and loaded them in the truck. Then unloaded them in the shed for being cut to size. The battery lasts about as long as I do for such work. While the battery charges, I find other things to keep active – – eat, or nap.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan
John