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B.E.L. Post # 271

We started the morning off at the Abbey, where I tasked Sam with wrapping up the junkpole panel while Jesse, Dan, and I got to processing wood.

We had plenty of woody bits to deal with, coming from junkpoles that weren't suitable for the panels as well as leftover logs from trees I had been harvesting for the junkpole panels. Since we had so much material to process, we spent a good part of the morning stocking up the Abbey. By tomorrow, the Abbey should be fully stocked with kindling and other firewood. Then we'll start filling up the firewood racks at Cooper Cabin.

After lunch, I put the de-limbed tree branches that Stephen processed today from the tree I felled yesterday on top of the east berm. Once those were in place, I laid another layer of soil over the berm.

Then I switched gears and helped Jesse bring four buckets of sand up to Complexity Trail.

After that, I got in some chop-and-drop before moving on to the next task. I tasked Sam with processing some of the woody bits into crates to be left on top of the rocket mass heater at the Fisher Price house.

I wrapped up the day continuing to process the tree that Stephen had started working on earlier.

B.E.L. Post # 272

This morning we headed out to the Abbey and spent the morning cleaning up all the woody bits that had been staged outside the entrance.

I was bucking them to length while Dan, Leo, and Sam were splitting and stacking the wood onto the bed of Roy. Jesse was splitting wood too, processing kindling and stacking it into the smaller firewood rack to the right of the Abbey door.

Once we had the majority of the pile processed and the area cleaned up, we loaded up the firewood and hauled it over to Cooper Cabin. We started filling in the outside firewood racks there before heading back to Base Camp for lunch.

After lunch, I threw another layer of woody bits on top of the east berm and then added another layer of soil over it. After that I slowly worked my way through the tree I felled this past Sunday, bucking and processing it a bit at a time.

I eventually switched over to doing some chop and drop for the rest of the afternoon.

It was a pretty productive day. A lot of wood got processed, moved, and put to use, and I got a little more work done on the berm and the tree from Sunday. Just another one of those days where a bunch of little projects slowly start coming together.

The notice for your post got lost so I got 4 pages behind on your postings which means most of the pictures aren't  available because the site they are stored on rearranged the files so that link is no longer valid.  This has happened many times when boots have used links instead of uploading to permies. I just referenced a picture on a post from 10 years ago on permies no problem. So  if you want a permanent record upload.

Hans Quistorff wrote:The notice for your post got lost so I got 4 pages behind on your postings which means most of the pictures aren't  available because the site they are stored on rearranged the files so that link is no longer valid.  This has happened many times when boots have used links instead of uploading to permies. I just referenced a picture on a post from 10 years ago on permies no problem. So  if you want a permanent record upload.

It's very unfortunate that you're experiencing technical difficulties viewing my photos 📸  ... And I certainly can't speak for any past/current boots ... but as far as I am concerned, I've been uploading directly onto the permies website as illustrated from my screenshot ... but thank you for bringing this up, hopefully someone can chime in further on what may be the underlying issue ....

For the record, I just went back a couple months in this thread and I can still see all the pictures just fine.