I'm very much looking forward to borrowing my neighbour's chainsaw next week to take down my dead tree and chop it up. Also his pulper. I think you should get a custom-made axe just for you (maybe to match or coordinate with a cloak) - because I reckon we're all going to need a rage outlet for the next few years.
I quite enjoyed using my chainsaw last week and it definitely came into its own, but it is noisy. The thunk of a sharp axe is much more enjoyable. I still have the requisite number of fingers.
Good! We’ve got a whole bunch and I have my Personal Hatchet a neighbor gave me a few years ago under my bedside table (just where it seems to live after camping trips not for Reasons). After moving the wood chips today should go fill the kindling bucket. That might prove therapeutic.
A couple of decades ago there was a kind of indoor marketplace at one end of The Trafford Centre (a huge shopping mall). I bought a tree felling axe at a tool stall there, but the chap didn't have a bag for it. I just put it over my shoulder and confidently walked the length of the mall to the carpark at the other end. The crowds parted for me, like the Red Sea, as I walked along! 🤣
🤣 There's a local toolmaker on the next mountain over - I get all my "survivalist/foraging" stuff from him. He's going to personalise my axe and decorate the handle with runes 👍
Yes. I’ve got a lot of books paper but most of the entertaining books are digital and therefore not really secure. Deeply worried about lack of critical thinking ability and scientific knowledge loss.
Absolutely. I've got about a thousand hard copy books and a lot of them will be essential for providing knowledge of what we've lost and educating people on how to resist.
Someone was yesterday saying how much practical knowledge is stored on tea towels... We were saying there should be a big tome with tea towel pages, full of information about knots and breeds of sheep and stuff...
🤣 Thinking about it though, I've definitely seen quite a few instructional teatowels in my time. @justafrog I think this might be an under-explored area 😁
I had a couple of fancy ones on display in the kitchen until recently but they were retired to make room for some wall art. I swither about using them too 😂
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My reward for a ten mile walk, shopping and a singing lesson was a large tarte citron and a taxi home.
Everything is lemony 😂
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I’m now turning a load of old tongue and groove into kindling. It’s very satisfying!
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Guess I'll have to make some more cakes instead.
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I think you should get a custom-made axe just for you (maybe to match or coordinate with a cloak) - because I reckon we're all going to need a rage outlet for the next few years.
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For extra therapy, the axes could be wielded on effigies....
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Also mattocks and picks for those who want a bit more heft.
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You never know when it'll come in handy and I already have a crowbar.
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I just put it over my shoulder and confidently walked the length of the mall to the carpark at the other end.
The crowds parted for me, like the Red Sea, as I walked along! 🤣
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There's a local toolmaker on the next mountain over - I get all my "survivalist/foraging" stuff from him. He's going to personalise my axe and decorate the handle with runes 👍
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He does keep inviting me up to "see his workshop" though 😬
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Thinking about it though, I've definitely seen quite a few instructional teatowels in my time.
@justafrog I think this might be an under-explored area 😁
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