Shahar Goldin

Jay Angler wrote:This smoke is really bad for lungs and over-all health.

Please start a new trend and get the really good breathing masks for industrial use and wear one if you're out in it! The kind that look like gas masks.

An N95 mask will get some of it, and since I can get those small enough to fit me, I will use one, but I am aware there are things in smoke an N95 won't stop.

You’re thinking of a p100 mask. After listening to this radiolab episode from last summer, I’m pretty much on the same page.
https://overcast.fm/+ABGanSSFaNU

If you have a meat thermometer, I would highly recommend cooking them to rare (145ºF) and then searing with the braise in your oven or on a grill or on a skillet. I'd recommend lots of thyme. Some people like mint, which is also great.

If you're feeling silly/for special occasions, get 2-3 of these and bend them into a crown shape. Then it's called a crown roast.

Seattle Pottery Supply will sell me a firebrick for 15 dollars. Several people on Craigslist/FB market want to sell me hundreds of "firebricks" for ~$2 a piece. The big box hardware store wants to sell me a pallet of 138 firebricks for 400 dollars. The stuff inside of electric kilns seems to be a completely different material (very low density). These all seem to be different products. Some of them are made of refractory cement? I think? and are probably good enough for a low temperature fireplace. I have dreams of a 2400ºF wood fired kiln, and reading here it doesn't sound like that's a very high number for what the bricks in a RMH need to withstand. How do you know that the stuff the lady on craigslist that she said she pulled out of a chimney is good enough for what you need?

I just stumbled on this and it happens to be relevant and I love it

Tim lives in a waxed paper soup container from the restaurant supply store. Whatever is left of my starter goes in the fridge when I’m done. The day before baking, I weigh Tim with the container. The soup container is 20grams, if the weight is less than 220 grams I add 200 ml of water and 200 grams of flour. If it’s more than 220 grams, I figure out how much I need to remove to get to 220, tare the scale with the compost bin on it, try to get as much of the black watery stuff and crusty stuff out, and then add 200 ml of water and 200 ml of flour. If there’s a lot more than 220 grams I might try to make discard crumpets. Most other discard recipes are a bad idea because if I’m feeding the starter, that means there will be bread tomorrow, and so discard rolls or whatever will be excessive.

I bought a truck.
Before I bought the truck I got my car stuck in the mud and did some very scary things with a tiny utility trailer towed by my boyfriend’s rav4 and rented trucks from U-Haul and hardware stores (permies won’t let me make fun of the hardware store’s name so I won’t call them out, but the big ones have truck rentals), and eventually got annoyed and bought a truck.
It was 6000 dollars, but I’ve seen some for 3000, especially if you’re willing to start with a project instead of a truck.

I just found this and have no idea if it’s accurate but it looks like it was coded in 1997 so it’s probably not hallucinating: https://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl
Assuming I cut the logs to 20’ lengths (which I can’t imagine why I would need 20’ boards, maybe if I build a cabin?) and assuming they’re the same thickness at the top as at breast height, which is impossible but I have no way of estimating the taper, I’m looking at 2500 lb logs.

I love the welded hooks suggestion for getting them up on the mill bed, thanks!

The little excavator thingy has a thumb to (I assume) pick up logs with-
If I tie a log to a tractor, how does it get to the bed of the saw mill?

I have 3ish acres of bumpy forest on whidbey island. Much of the forest is alders that, according to a forester I hired, are about to start dying of old age. I have a neighbor with a sawmill that they're willing to sell me, and I'd like a machine to move trunks onto the sawmill, move the storm felled trunks to hugelcultur beds, dig out the roots/stumps and put those into hugelcultur beds, reshape some of the other land, build about 100' of road/driveway, and trench along about 500' of road for power conduit. I'd also like to level some ground for some small buildings.
It seems like I can buy a Case 580CK for 4-8 thousand dollars at any given time around here, but right now someone is selling a Komatsu PC05 mini excavator on tracks for 7 thousand. I'd like to spend less than 10 thousand, and I'll probably sell/list whatever I get for rent after I'm done shaping the land.

I don't want to rent something because I live about a 90 minute drive from the property that I'm working on and have no idea how many weekends it'll take to do everything I want to do.

What would you buy?