Caleb's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

Bionic Rotisserie Knuckle punch day 34 - it's the only way to take down some of these conspiring conifer trees...

Really nice opening the door to the Abbey to do the normal morning stuff and being met with slightly warmer air than inside.  Too bad the muddy roads didn't let me get a load of ceder to play around with like I'd planned on.  Still a good day to sand the splinters out of a table, clear another patch of conifers and wing a couple arrows at paper.  

Those warm spring days must be feeling nice when they show up! You mention refrigeration and I was packing my little chest fridge in the trailer for moving next week. I was thinking in the winter with those shorter, darker days limiting solar power, that it's cold enough to have a couple milk jugs full of water, and swap them from outside to the fridge in the morning, when they had time to chill/freeze overnight. That way no power is needed, and if it's too warm for that, it's probably also sunnier for the panels to charge up.

Have you been eating a variety of meals that don't need a fridge for leftovers, or just cooking 1 serving at a time, or a mix of each?

Mark Brunnr wrote:Those warm spring days must be feeling nice when they show up! You mention refrigeration and I was packing my little chest fridge in the trailer for moving next week. I was thinking in the winter with those shorter, darker days limiting solar power, that it's cold enough to have a couple milk jugs full of water, and swap them from outside to the fridge in the morning, when they had time to chill/freeze overnight. That way no power is needed, and if it's too warm for that, it's probably also sunnier for the panels to charge up.

Have you been eating a variety of meals that don't need a fridge for leftovers, or just cooking 1 serving at a time, or a mix of each?

It all depends on how long you expect to keep it from getting over run with funk.  Oil and salt are kind of like the two metrics that determine none refrigerated preservation, along with temperature, obviously.  

That said, eggs, oats and coffee in the morning are a semi-constant.

Post notes - as i was a bit tired and quick in response and didn't respond directly to the question -  what i cook is based on the nexus of what's available in the pantry, what i know is nutritionally balanced for me,  what my buds like and what lasts in an environment at between 46 and 50.  I'm not against eating the same thing several times a week, especially when it gives me fuel and flexibility.  

For example i just made a soup/rice and beans that i can eat hot or cold.  I tried to designed it to be tastier than the shit Neo had to eat in the matrix tho...

The pasta salad is probably helped even more by the fact i smother it in Greek dressing which is basically olive oil, vinegar and herbs/salt.  Oxidization's either a beautiful accident or a sob.

Beneficiary, Redox, Kinetic day 36.

That picture of a rope tied to the top of the tractor's roll bar in the picture from last Thursday makes my safety sense tingle. If you think about it in terms of leverage, the axle is the fulcrum, the place where the tire touches the ground is where the force is applied, and wherever the rope is tied to the tractor is the load applied to the lever. If you attach the rope high up on the tractor, the leverage exerted will want to tip the tractor over backwards. This leads to a feedback loop, where the bottom of your tire is pushing your tractor forward and lifting its nose, while the rope is pulling the top of your roll bar up and backwards. The tractor could get away from you and flip backwards really quick.

This is why it is a good idea to only attach things that you are pulling to the drawbar or the hitch. The drawbar is located below the axle, so pulling with it tends to keep the nose of the tractor down. Which then gives you more traction when the 4 wheel drive is engaged. People have still managed to flip tractors when they are pulling with the drawbar, but the mechanical advantage isn't working against you.

Of course, no accidents happened last Thursday. The forces involved in pulling a cut tree over are not too high. I just wanted to pass along some safety thoughts.

A picture illustrating the forces contributing to rear rollover. When moving at a walking speed, rollover can occur in less than 1 second.

Jeremy VanGelder wrote:That picture of a rope tied to the top of the tractor's roll bar in the picture from last Thursday makes my safety sense tingle. If you think about it in terms of leverage, the axle is the fulcrum, the place where the tire touches the ground is where the force is applied, and wherever the rope is tied to the tractor is the load applied to the lever. If you attach the rope high up on the tractor, the leverage exerted will want to tip the tractor over backwards. This leads to a feedback loop, where the bottom of your tire is pushing your tractor forward and lifting its nose, while the rope is pulling the top of your roll bar up and backwards. The tractor could get away from you and flip backwards really quick.

This is why it is a good idea to only attach things that you are pulling to the drawbar or the hitch. The drawbar is located below the axle, so pulling with it tends to keep the nose of the tractor down. Which then gives you more traction when the 4 wheel drive is engaged. People have still managed to flip tractors when they are pulling with the drawbar, but the mechanical advantage isn't working against you.

Of course, no accidents happened last Thursday. The forces involved in pulling a cut tree over are not too high. I just wanted to pass along some safety thoughts.

I hear both of ya and I'v done this before with a car and always tied it off to the drawbar ball.  So, suffice it to say I wasn't completely in on where it was tied but we did just need to 'strongly suggest' where the tree landed.   I was there keeping a steady eye on how much tension or lack there of was being applied by the tractor.  

Thanks for sharing the knowledge and concern tho and I'll pass the wisdom on to everyone here, if they haven't already seen this.  We're all learning and active diplomacy keeps everyone learning at their own pace(safely hopefully)...and also sometimes keeps communities from turning into communisties.. Lol

Some folks think like a movie they've watched a hundred times and others are surfing the stations hoping to find something they've never seen.  Butyl-Rhetorical-Kemetics day 37

The green path grows

 My speculation is that it is green tree limbs laid in the path. I would like to know the full story.