Tag: lumber

Image of future BCB&B site.

4 weeks of harvesting, logging, and chipping…

Featured by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Site Preparation

…leads to a roughed-in build site! See the attached images, eh.

Revision: Ah. So THAT’S how one inserts images. Oy.

Image of future BCB&B site.
After 4 weeks of forestry, TS & PN roughed out the future build-site.
An image of the future back yard.
PN & TS’s build-site is on the other side of the rock outcrop (that is on the left side of the image).
This image is from the gravel road’s terminus, looking South (forest garden on other side of the ridge [to the right]).

Hardwood is…

by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Site Preparation

…well, hard. A grove of slow-growing oak, maple, and ironwood (yes, that’s a real Ontario tree [I’m using this tree atlas to identify my plants])… are challenging me. I thought I would be able to sharpen my saw’s chain every 3 days. Nope. The chain skates on the media! Daily sharpening. Daily!

I won’t be burning the straight, unblemished logs. They’re piled on a flat deck… single layer. I’ll be picking up a jig that I can attached to (a second?) saw so that I can try my hand at making lumber. To give away? To make tchotchkes? To turn on a lathe? Give TS and me your ideas, eh.

Additional information about trees? Visit this site: https://www.ontario.ca/page/tree-atlas

I had to be reminded…

by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Site Preparation

…that green branches and fresh leaves play holy hell with small chippers & shredders. I blocked up the mechanism 3 times before I walked away from it in disgust (TS is more savvy than me about the unit… I end up jamming branches and stuff into the hopper… and look like Wile E. Coyote on top of one of his spinning-blade ACME contraptions [sorry TS… do as I say, not as I do]). After de-energizing the system and pulling the hopper apart 3 times… I gave up.

I try not to pile branches like this. I was getting tired.

We crawled back to MTC and are recovering from the grind. This is fun. Right? RIGHT?! Ow, sore.

I ended up fishtailing up and down the driveway, as a way to avoid chipping. Those logs will be processed in the Fall.

Preparing to return…

by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Site Preparation

…to the bush. I’m optimistic we learned a few lessons from our last session. We’ll have to DIY our own bush-buggy-platform for the wood chipper. King City Trailers gave us good advice, had SOME stock, but couldn’t sell us a ready-made option. Still, I’d recommend them to you.

Meh… we’re planning on pushing another ATV trail around the buildsite so that we can easily move green-matter to the soil operation. SR told TS that we can grab our wheelbarrow from the school shipping container.