Lars Fabiunke

A hearty welcome back Patrick. Been a long time, we missed you.

Come on in, just made a nice cup of hot chocolate. Want some?

this new (to me) tool will help me provide more versatile assistance in the recovery after our CZU Lightning Fire.  Waiting out the last possible rains and after the all clear, we will be heading back up to the burn sites and former home locations to continue restoration and recovery work.  This may be just the tool to chip through charred trees, ready a new garden or even help prep a space for temporary housing while the hold home is being rebuild.  Cheers to all!!

Wood chopper holding the axe the wrong way
Maybe a hint of a stem and leaf for the apples
Apples too evenly spaced out
ladder for apple picker in the tree
tractor guy needs boots, barefoot machinery operation  is tsk tsk tsk
beekeeper looks like she is not wear netting, I think it is okay cover her face a little bit
the chicken needs some chicks
bird house builder, switch to a smaller hammer, a few more tools and supplies on the table would be nice.. hey maybe even this book (he is using as a reference, right?)
pizza needs to be foreshortened a bit, right now it looks like a giant chocolate chip cookie

a bit of smoke coming from the pizza oven?
Watering gal needs a few more veggies or flowers.  right now it looks a bit like a failed crop with one head of lettuce
There are smudges and left over pixels from copy and pasting (I am guessing)  throughout the title ...

add someone reading a book.. this book or any of the others Paul wrote ...
framing and door need a bit more character
chicken coup could use a bit more detail (show boards?)


as per usual.. YMMV!  Thanks for asking us though!  

Thank you all!  I didn't think about the earthworms.  I will have to tinker a bit and maybe figure out how create some sort of worm hole (ha!) covered with some coarser webbing that allows for the youngens to enter and make a home!   Time for some trials and testing.

Location: Nor Cali, Coastal Region Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay.

I have recently been able to get some very nice pieces of pine and cedar. They have been most likely been supports for transporting larger shipping items.  I also have some IPPC stamped wooden palettes.  I was thinking about bashing together some wooden planter boxes to use for growing herbs.  The ideas is to move them into the garden (on drip) in the spring summer fall and then into the green house (yet another project) in the winter.

I was thinking about lining the boxes with either some weed barrier that I have at hand or some other material that would let water through but keeps the dirt (mostly) in.  The thinking was that I don't have to worry about fitting the planter boards tight to keep water and dirt from running out the sides, rather than the bottom.  Any suggestions as what is best to use?  Also suggestions on folding it so that it fits a square or rectangular planter would be appreciated.  TIA!

I solved the 'paying for the video issue' by creating an account and logging in.  Once I logged in on the Just Rhodes page, I can now watch the 45 min video.  I also now wee a 'my stuff' button at the very top.  For now, it only contains the link to the JR video.

I had my first rooster kill this year as well. It was a bit different for me as my boys had hand picked them as day old chicks, raised them and of course they gave them all names. It was tough but I finally did it. What help with the whole process was the following video:

http://youtu.be/5_S3P0eU0lE

There are 2 parts, they are both worth watching.

I ended up plucking the bird as shown in the video, yeah it was messy, rubber gloves really do help as does stringing the bird upside down. They key was the hot water trick.

Good luck and Bon Appétit

I will have to check that out, thank you for the tip. I had thought that perhaps I could heat up the oven with the rocket, but I got my brain in a pretzel trying to figure out the damper.

I am adding aluminum foil plus 4 inches of perlite/clay slip as the base, then placing fire brick on top of that. E&E recommend, when a combustible base, 3 inch perlite/clay slip, I padded up. all that rests on corrugated aluminum. That should be enough for the cob oven, no?
The slab under the oven is pretty much all urbanite bricks from an old BBQ, stacked, packed and mortared together. I have some tile I was going to use for the inside flooring.

I am also worried about the RMH under the structure. One I don't have that much space, since I tossed the idea for a RMH being the pre/main heater. Two, if I end up making a small RMH, it may not even heat the bench...

wow.. here I go off to get some breakfast and mull my day's schedule and there is a reply already . Thank you for the answers and thank you for the correction on the Perlite error!

First of all I am using Ernie & Erica's Plan for 2 Chamber oven. Then I thought man it would be nice if I could make it so that we could enjoy a heated bench for the cool evenings. So dreamed up a plan and built it in 3D.
Enclosed is my ..ah-hem plan. The dream view (external), what the base structure looks like and my envisioned "pipe dream"

I am using old bricks, old blocks and new, fence posts, you name it. The base is done, the bench, the pipes, the cob oven and the rocket stove is not (yet)

Once you are done laughing, be gentle with your critique