Greenwood digressions
I’m back from a busy week at our weekend home. Today, it’s image-and-comment-only day. (hint: the titles of the images appear when the mouse hovers over it)
update: cool, wordpress now offers slideshows. So, sit back and enjoy.
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- Actually, it’s only a branch. I split the piece on the left side and made a bench from it
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- Bashing out monster mortises (after some rough cleaning with the draw knife)
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- I found those oak pieces in the wood and decided that they looked approximately like legs. One has a twist that makes a convenient splay for the leg.
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- Three legs make less wobbling. At least, that was the idea. Some more splay had been benefitial for comfortable sitting (with less balancing)
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- That was not my fault – the log split along a twist, and I didn’t want to shave several inches away. Call it organic form – after cleaning up.
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- -different view.
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- As mentioned before, we made a raised bed for the veggies, and we needed a fence. So I had to make billions of fence posts froom split branches, roughly shaped with the draw knife.
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- That is, one fourth of the fence. On the right in the background, the shop.
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- partly finished. Chainsaws are noisy and smelly roaring beasts.
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- I didn’t completely neglect the woodworking shop.
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- What does a steel shovel, made in Sheffield in 1942, do in southern Bavaria?
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- Something like 50 wheelbarrow loads of shredded wood, foliage, compost and soil, pushed and arranged by the significant other. In the background, one fourth of the fence.
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