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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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The perfect stuff shown in that video bears little resemblance to some of the awful stuff that I've dealt with. I have plenty of maple coppice to burn and should probably give up splitting for sport. In viewing many wood cutting and splitting videos on YouTube, I've been shocked at the amount of ingenuity devoted to wood processing by guys who then run their hard earned stacks through very wasteful wood stoves . Rocket Mass Heaters should be able to cut into the need for much of this splitting.
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"You must be the change you want to see in the world." "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Chris Kott wrote:I like an idea I read about in a hugelkultur post. It involves leaving stumps to rot several feet above ground, then building hugelbeets around them, either several in one, or making Sepp's soil sausages using stumps as bases.
The advantage of leaving the stumps to rot is that any root systems close to the rotten root system will just follow the network of compost down into the ground, saving plant resources for other growth.
Oh, and you save the effort of ripping out stumps.
-CK
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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What is a Mother Tree ?
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Chris Kott wrote:Is a maul or a hatchet inherently unsafe?
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Burra Maluca wrote:I can just see myself getting distracted for half a second and losing a finger or three with that machine.
But on the other hand there must be a fairly simple way of making it safe. I just can't see it yet.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
"Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words." --Francis of Assisi.
"Family farms work when the whole family works the farm." -- Adam Klaus
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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If no one from the future comes to stop you is it really that bad of a decision?
paul wheaton wrote:I think comparing maul+skill to the inertia-chopper without skill is unfair. Comparing both with skill or both without skill seems more fair.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Sam Barber wrote:Yeah just came here to see if the strange looking axe was on here I kinda want to try it out!
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Currently, when chopping kindling, I will either start the split while holding the kindling with the idea that the hatchet will get enough grip into the wood that I can finish the split without my left hand anywhere near the wood, OR I will swing the hatchet and move my left hand away before the blade touches the wood. Both seem a little dangerous still.
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Steve Hoskins wrote:
I know it looks unsafe, but for me this method works well. The idea being, the wood is split right where it lays without having to stand it up or arrange it aside from a kick here and there. And above, last year, I mentioned that I use the gransfors bruks large splitting maul, but actually, its the large splitting axe... Correction.
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I'm sorry but I don't think this is very safe IF you're holding the wood with your foot. At the 0:58 mark I'm not sure how you didn't cut into your own foot. I'm glad you say not to try this at home and I'd encourage new wood splitters to not try this method until you get a really good feel for swinging your axe. I love how you don't have to keep restanding the wood rounds back up. Personally I like the tire on the chopping block method.
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