!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

BRK #293

Excellent Saturday, including providing a tour for a couple of the PDC attendees. I wish I hadn't been hard-wired to wake up at 5am-ish when it comes to having a day off, but so it goes.

Alan spearheaded the traditional trip to the Farmer's Market, and he and his attendees brought back a mammoth load of vegetables for this week's meals.



Paul requested some preparatory supplies for blueberry-growing efforts for next season. Here's a bag of slow-acting sulfur to help acidify the soil to invite the blueberries to thrive.



Here are a few of the PDC attendees preparing for the Saturday night session. Chase was to later carry out a real-time soil microscopy session on some fantastic compost brought in for this specific occasion.



Gotta run, so that's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!

BRK #294

The PDC guests are back at it, and we've welcomed four new Boots today. Thanks for joining us Drew, Liam, Logan, and J. Jay...! They're bringing a wide variety of experience and skills with them to our Boot tasks, and I'm certain they'll put them to use during the upcoming PTJ event.

Meanwhile, I walked about on the Lab today, scoping out where to work and what we can accomplish with this bigger team. There's a lot of prep required for the PDC, so I am looking at felling some trees and bucking some logs that were already felled but not cut down to size.







I also walked over to our new well site. After months of planning and labor, the new well is in and is working. Massive thank-yous go to SEPPer Jeff, who did the bulk of the planning and in some instances stayed with the well technician late into the night.



Finally: we wrapped up the evening with an epic 3-player game of a pinball board game I picked up not long ago. Thanks for playing along, Shai and SEPPer Jeff...!



That's all for now. Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day...!

The most dangerous tree to cut is a heavy leaner like that one on the right in your picture.  Please either cut it so that it falls perpendicular to the lean (sideways) with a normal felling cut approach or use a "bore and snap" cut if you need to drop it in the direction of lean.  Otherwise you're at high risk of what they call a barberchair.  I'd be happy to drop it if time permits when I'm there.

Mike Haasl wrote:The most dangerous tree to cut is a heavy leaner like that one on the right in your picture.  Please either cut it so that it falls perpendicular to the lean (sideways) with a normal felling cut approach or use a "bore and snap" cut if you need to drop it in the direction of lean.  Otherwise you're at high risk of what they call a barberchair.

Yep! Thanks, Mike. I remember your presentation at last year's SKIP event, and I definitely don't want to be uppercut-punched by a chunk of that log. I was thinking of using that timber tool to also help prevent any shenanigans. I'll research that bore and snap method and see if that would be worth practicing on a situation like this.

Thanks for taking it seriously.  The timber tool won't help if you try to drop it in the direction of lean.  But it would help with dropping it perpendicular.