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dpack
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 20 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Creels are made of woven wicker these days, but could be any material available. I make baskets out of thin strips split from hazel, but any very thing straight stick will do, with willow being particularly good and found in damp places. I have never been anywhere where peat is cut, but would think willow grows well there, hence the creels.
I am sure it didn't take man in whatever form to realise that twisting fibres together made them a lot stronger. Keeping them together might have taken longer, as plying two or more lengths together would have been necessary. Of course if you let go of a length of tightly twisted string it doubles up, and is even stronger, so may have given them the idea. Plying has to be done in the opposite direction to the spin to get good strength.
There are plenty of other ways to get cordage for lashing things like huts together such as withies, bramble and honeysuckle or clematis in the UK, and presumably similar creepers in other parts of the world. There is also the possibility of making 'benders' with smaller diameter rods. The thin ends can by twisted or woven together to make the roof. |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45463 Location: yes
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 20 8:42 am Post subject: |
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I think most people on the continent have larger stoves than we do Dpack. Here, most are designed to heat only the room they are in, rather than heating the whole house, either by keeping the door open or some sort of back boiler for central heating.
Our charcoal bags are 2 ply paper, and they are pretty strong, but don't have to carry the weight that feed bags do, so I can see why they need to be 3 or 4 ply.
I think the book you are thinking about may be 'Norwegian Wood' Gregotyn. I have it, and did read it, but it is more a story than anything. I can only assume, if it is the one you are thinking of, that it is not the woodsmen Norwegians who make all those pretty log piles; the woodsmen have a lot more to do than arrange log piles in patterns. Ours tends to be in a pallet box in the log store, moved to a heap outside the front door, brought into the house and thrown into the log basket that will hold about a weeks worth of wood. Not pretty, but functional. |
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Ty Gwyn
Joined: 22 Sep 2010 Posts: 4563 Location: Lampeter
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Fri Jan 17, 20 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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The dog food had the title "Winner Gold"!
I hope you get the dry weather you need MR.
The size of the UK wood burners is much less generally that those of the Scandinavians. My large wood burner is about 16 inches wide, and is the one that heats the water when connected-the water is another story. I went away for Christmas and forgot to turn it off and drain the pipes! I met the water coming down through the kitchen ceiling light and out through the front door from the bathroom above. Now you can tell how bad I am-I made the same mistake the next year! (This says take no notice of what I say-or do!), but an experience I have not repeated since, the water is off! I don't do heat either, except hot water bottles. These, I don't know how, seem to remain hot all night, from about 7pm to 4 am when I get up for work. At that time of the morning I am on auto pilot and get up and gather all the kit I have put ready the night before and away to work by 5-6am. I don't notice if it is cold or not. What I don't understand is how, having lived with people who liked hot houses, I cope with no heat. When I was in the state of married bliss I used to get up about 5 am, because the heating was only off for June, July and August. I would go to my veg plot and do early morning gardening before going to work. I had a wonderful quarter acre veg. plot and used to sell a lot at the saw mill.
Now I work, chop wood and sell it, but as soon as I retire the veg plot will come back into play, I'll have the time! |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 20 11:00 am Post subject: |
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Plan b is selling veg MR. It is something I did years ago when I was married, we had a big veg./fruit garden and my workforce used to buy off me. The kindling is good, a lot of work, but I enjoy chopping wood. Selling veg. straight out of the plot would be good too. I have the ground, the tractor to plough it and a cultivator, what else do I need-well a stronger back to start would be good! The plus is on retirement I can do it in my own time and rate. All I do now is at my rate, but not enough of it! I will loose the wood I get from work. All is not lost as a local lad and his friend are doing mass kindling on a machine and from what I see they do a good job but it is in bigger nets than mine so my cut will be to re-net his into my nets. I will order for the year in the late spring for delivery asap. Save me hours of cutting pallets up and the money should be the same, with any excess finance coming from my smaller nets-all good theory, I need to check the practical!
Seasoning timber can be easy, but needs to be done in secure premises. I went to learn about milling and pressure treating in some place 40 miles from London, a long time ago now. That mill was something else. A floor level carriage brought the huge tree trunks into the building any thing up to 40 feet long, and progressed through the band saw and really good beech trees were eventually reduced via more band saws to..wait for it.. paint brush handles! I really could not believe that hardwood was used for something, which in many cases, is thrown after use. there were about 20 smaller band saws doing the secondary operations. So to get to the point they "sticked" the saw planks sawn on the band rack and then kiln dried them using their own offcuts
Very cold this morning. I needed to get wood to the shop so to get it I needed to undo the padlock on the shed, and needed a blow lamp to thaw the lock out-now where do you keep the blow lamp-clue with my tools-and the tools are....in the shed. So I have 2 blow lamps, one is now available for hire! (The new blow lamp is not in the shed, nor will be). Got it all done so I have delivered kindling on my way here and will be returning to cut and chop for next week and more if possible. In some ways the cold weather is a useful as most people put the heating on when it is this cold, so reduced kindling sales. Idiots like me add a layer and get on with it!
Have you heard from Cassandra lately, I hope all is going well for her. Back to home to pick up the brummack and get going again. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15578
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45463 Location: yes
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