Douglas Campbell

We got a 'Veda' from 'Paderno, which has all-metal for the boiling parts, and runs nicely.

A true cord is 4'x4'x8' = 128 cubic ft.
I think some of the higher consumption values must be 'face cords' or 'bush cords'?
We burn just under 2 cords per year to heat a large (2900 sq ft) 2 level stick built house.
We keep it warm over a ~6.5 month burn season in Nova Scotia, but it is well insulated.

I used one similar to the third from left, top row, with a height adjustment, in my office for awhile.  It was OK but clumsy to get in and out.

Hello;
I have been trying, and failing, to recycle aluminized (mylar) dog food bags.
There are dozens of online crafty uses, like shopping bags.  But I have not found much substantive.
Things I tried:
-clean and use as reflectors to shine light onto a garden patch;  worked a bit, but the plastic is not UV resistant
-compost bags; not strong enough, same problem with UV degradation.

Things I wonder about:
-earth bags?
-an underlayer in a shelter roof; but, they are fussy to open out to flat.
Ideas?

(Wood ash + husky poop + red wigglers) x 5 years = (2 m x 20 m rugosa rose dense hedge), facilitating a pants-free front yard.  ;)

I would be very cautious about a 30' radius (!?), 30% slope, green roof in Quebec.  The radial roof is intriguing but I worry about snow load; the green roof will not shed snow well.  A 60' span without support is unlikely to meet code.  And I think the central 'eye' at the roof peak is part of the self-supporting design.

One of the initial drivers of adoption of gasoline cars was... cleanliness.
Manure and (gruesomely) dead horses in the streets were a health issue.
I used to live in an area (Tantramar, New Brunswick) that was an agricultural centre of Canada until ~ 1910, because they loaded salt marsh hay directly on to sailing ships, to send down the coast to American port cities; cheaper to sail the hay to city down town, than to cart it in from the surrounding countrysides.
Rural uses may make sense, but urban horses caused issues.

Thanks.
I am pondering the roof, and will think about increasing the pitch.
I may use metal sheets, possibly with a polycarbonate panel for a sky light.

'Falling Water' is beautiful, but was the subject of a high tech restoration with tensile stressed rods to hold the slabs, because it was poorly engineered.

Hello;
I have some low grade standing balsam fir, and am thinking of building a small shelter for overnighting.
I am wondering about building log cabin walls with all the log tapers running in one direction, to generate the roof pitch.
Rough Example:
Cabin wall 300 cm;  logs taper from ~15 cm to ~10 cm over the 300 cm.
Loss of 5 cm per log.
Cabin wall at the front; 4 logs high x 15 cm = 200 cm at the front
Cabin wall at the back 14 logs x 10 cm = 140  cm at the back.
60 cm drop over 3 m run; 20% pitch.

Front and rear log walls would be conventional with taper running in alternating directions to generate a flat top.
Or, possibly, a triangular shape with the low rear coming to a point.

Crazy?  Flaws in logic?
This is not a house for the ages, just a camp on a woodlot, possibly one day a run-in shelter for livestock.
cheers Doug