Category: BLOG

Fat-wood comes in bags filled with little 6 inch sticks. At the start of this winter, I had a handful leftover from last year, but I find myself using them less and less.

So many things in life seem to possess opposite qualities, especially when it comes to hand-crafted tools.

Sorted through my pile of staves today, looking for a good piece to use to cut out a blank for my next axe handle. Since I’ve been cutting planks with the chainsaw, I decided to rip a board out of the stave rather than hacking it down with my hatchet.

After the farmers market two weeks ago, I came home with a litter of baby kittens…

I decided to try something a little different today and see how it turned out. It’s been cold enough that the concrete place was shutdown, so I took my day off to try my hand at ripping lumber with a chainsaw. The results were most excellent.

“That tree could be worth thousands,” says a friend.
“Put your money where your mouth is,” is the only valid response.

For those of you in the Midwest, you already know that winter is fast on his way this year. We had a couple good weeks of autumn, but now the race is on.

There’s never enough time in the day. Not enough to eat or sleep or finish simple projects. Not in the so-called “real world,” and certainly not off-grid.