Sounds an awful lot like poison ivy to me, Dena. And just because you haven’t had a reaction to the plant in the past doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future.
How about taking 8’ long logs,take the required measurements to determine how many cu.ft are in that log. Then do another & another until it comes as close to 128cu.ft as you can get it. Done right? Not…
Please HELP! My husband and I were in New Hampshire last week- walked the entire Flume Gorge!
That’s in Franconia Notch State Park- the next day or maybe it was 2 days- I had what looked like an inch long…
A few of my family members and myself have been followed around by a female grouse for most of this summer. Lately I cannot get much outside clipping done because it follows so closely behind me and pecks at the…
Hi guys, no recent posts here, but I’ll try anyway. Posted this on another site, about my dilemma. I’ll post it here as well: Hi. I’m in kind of a dilemma here. A family/pack(coven?) of…
Brian,
I enjoyed your article on “How solid is a cord of wood”. Using the fencing was a clever way to sample the face of the cord. I’ve always accepted the textbook claims that a cord is…
HELP! We still have tadpoles in our TINY plastic ponds! Unfortunately, our ponds become big blocks of solid ice, during the winter. It’s not unusual for us to have temps of 50 degrees BELOW zero…or even…
I have been trying to get help for over four years.I have had my home ruined with smoke from outdoor wood-boiler and cant sell it. I have had breast cancer and asthma, spot on my lungs, pneumonia and problems…
Just happened upon this old wood splitters discussion. Im the novice of all of you woodsmen, Young and old spent the last 4 days at a friends families cabin just outside of West Yellowstone on Hegen Lake in Montana. Its an…
L. obscurum is commonly called “princess pine,” but this is one of those plants that has a dizzying number of informal names, depending on where you are and whom you’re talking with. While I haven’t heard it called “…
I agree with the CU in principle but I’m pretty sure it’s the forest getting screwed. Our neighbor just had her regularly scheduled “logging” done, which I was assured by the logger would be a “selective cut”.
If…
Dave - Thanks for the enjoyable reading! I’m a woodworker, and wood movement in these remarkable temp/humidity swings in the NE is definitely important. For furniture, there is a whole bag of tools. For a camp door, I’…
The saw tooth graph seems to prove that wood burning is not carbon neutral. As soon as the trees reach as size where they are absorbing a reasonable amount of CO2 they are felled and it is back to virtually…
Son and I hand built small cabin & made the door with tongue in groove boards. Perfect fit. But then rain, winter drafts, etc., so we had to do lots of incremental retrofitting over the next two years and then…
Very informative article, Susan.
Thanks. My husband and I are canoeists, and it was super to see an otter swim in front of us one time. They’re my totem animals!
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