Tag: maple trees

Meat is murder. Delicious, delicous murder!

by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Current (?!) Events

What food can I not give up?

Paul’s answer: my post-career health

by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Site Preparation

Time to get on the farm, before the Fall heat.

by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Current (?!) Events, small business

List 30 things that make you happy. And these items are in no particular order (at least as of 11:15 a.m.)… House panthers; domesticated wolves; full-tang cutlery; hovering mid-water column; polishing hardwood; October Black (spouse); chess pieces; getting into the right headspace; a singing ulu as it comes out of its sheath; mynoise.net … Aural … Continue reading

Image of future BCB&B site.

4 weeks of harvesting, logging, and chipping…

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. After 4 weeks of forestry, TS & PN roughed out the future build-site. PN & TS’s build-site is on the other side of the rock outcrop (that is on the left side of the image). … Continue reading 4 weeks of harvesting, logging, and chipping…

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 … Continue reading Hardwood is…

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 … Continue reading I had to be reminded…

Test Kitchen. PN’s observations!

by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Current (?!) Events

Yes yes. I know. There’s no building yet. When we go active, expect fanfare.

Anybody have a portable sawmill?

by NapsWithCats-ScubaMan, posted in Site Preparation

I’m (PN) a self-proclaimed weekend warrior, gentleman forester, and a (safety-conscious) goofball with a chainsaw. I don’t want to chop these up for firewood. Can it be milled? I don’t expect anything sellable or fancy.