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VT/NH Borderlands Short Term Place To Stay -- Skill Exchange?

 
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Would anyone in the area be interested in an exchange based on teaching hand tool skills (specifically; scythes {American, Euro, Nordic}, axe work, crosscut saw filing, green woodworking) in return for being put up a short/medium duration so I can explore property options and community in the area? 

What "short/medium term" actually means would be fleshed out, along with specifics over skill exchange -- I have many specifics in mind, but I'd want to know what might actually be more useful and less novelty for your specific circumstances and systems. Beyond the "skill" aspects I would furnish some tools, set up some tool infrastructure (peening a scythe blade without a good anvil set up, or trying to file a saw without a passable vice is not much fun), and hopefully accompany junktiquing to show what to look for in intercepting heirloom tools from the waste stream (a skill itself, plus reclaiming very neglected tools is probably the best way to develop high level maintenance skills too).

My only current geographic qualifiers are based around my focus on properties on the VT side of the border within about 15 miles of NH, basically for self-imposed poverty style geo-arbitrage reasons. So more of an east-west location criteria than a north/south one.

Feel free to send me a message or provide an email that I can write to if there is any interest. I'd be happy to provide a certain amount of "background" which for brevity I will leave out here. 
 
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Maybe? The timing may not work out but I do have a place in VT (Orleans County). You're welcome to hit me up.
 
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