A Windfall
Yeah, nah. The willow with branches overhanging power lines didn’t come down in a wind: two contractors employed by our electricity lines company, Alpine Energy, took it down. A windfall, nonetheless. No cost to...
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Doing the splits: part three
… what a marvelously simple tool the axe is, with no dependency on the factory for parts and lasting many lifetimes. It is quiet, easily carried, and doesn’t smoke. There is enormous satisfaction in...
Doing the splits: part two
We’re wood fuel people. I fell trees (mainly the gums and poplars we planted) and cut them into firewood length rings with a chainsaw. Right up until this autumn, I split them, by hand,...
Doing the splits
Part One I started doing the splits on a regular basis in my late thirties – soon after we moved to Little Owl Gully. Doing the splits: a cylindrical block of firewood split in...
“Ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”
Oh good, Alpine Energy are going to fell the tree free of charge. Good on several fronts: no more reminders from June that I must do something about that willow; no more hazard to...
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