Re: Alien technology core energy info given to humans over the past 10 - Page 3

 

I use either a bandsaw or an electric chainsaw with low raker
clearance to cut small branches into firewood. The big saw grabs them
too easily. A machete and a chopping block handle the really small
stuff quickly.



i always feel, when i'm looking at a huge pile of brush, there's some kind
of "diminishing returns" thing going on, where and at what point do i stop
cutting for firewood and start throwing into a burn pile.  i always think
firewood cutting guys would look at me and think i'm totally nuts at the
small diameter at which i stop cutting for firewood.  my (brain damaged)
neighbor used to stuff tiny sticks into breakfast cereal boxes and burn them
in his woodstove, i figured for me that was going too far.  (i'm not saying
you're brain damaged jim, just this was (what i thought of as) his funny
little quirk.)(he was brain damaged in a car accident when he was a
teen-ager.)
oh, and, i use the brush burn pile to crack large boulders here on my
property.  i *HATE* to see all those btu's wasted and just going up as
smoke.  i build my brush burn piles on boulders too large to move with my
compact tractor and use the heat to crack them up into (much) smaller pieces
to haul away.  my "poor man's (and lazy man's)jackhammer".


b.w.

  on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:48:12 -0800 (PST), Jim Wilkins, KB1DAL@gmail.com
wrote:

  I use a reciprocating saw with a 6TPI, 8" blade for
small stuff as well as for pallets.  That length makes
it easy to span top and bottom boards to make quick work
of turning pallets into firewood.  Also, if by chance, a
nail *is* encountered (hasn't happened yet, but the
potential is certainly there), it's a $3 blade (less if
bought in bulk) that takes 3 seconds to change.  

  Anything smaller than about an inch goes through the
chipper and then into the compost pile or straight
onto the garden as mulch.

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Jim Wilkins wrote:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080836/Health-safety-axe-800-year-old-right-collect-firewood.html

Whilst I enjoy the Dail Mail mostly as it has one of the best newspaper websites
IMHO, they get things
horribly wrong sometimes.

Last week they told me 150W incandescent bulbs has been banned by the EU for
around a year and 100 Watters
were about to disappear. So intrigued was I that I went to the local trade
electrical store and bought a 150W
one. They didn't have any 100W bulbs because of panic buying  but said they'd be
back in stock in around a
week.

Their comment ? "It's all fearmongering crap".

Graham