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[Anders Andersson <doggyest AT hotmail.com>]

hey everybody!


good to see the list is active again, its been a while.


a lot has happened in my life since my last post on this list.


I have meet a woman and we now have a son that's close to a year and a half.


we have moved across the country to an area where we can both find jobs.


we just bought an house from the forties so i guess that it will keep me 
occupied most of the time, (not much has been done since it was built)


there is a small cluster of houses where ours is but town development never 
went the way they planned and it is still a somewhat rural area,

hopefully we can grow some vegetables in the garden and maybe have some 
chickens.


I hope to find the time between house renovating and family to get my woodgas 
powered international truck roadworthy, which would be really satisfying 
since I have been at it for almost ten years.


it would be nice to hear what everyone else has been up to


kind regards Anders


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   1. Re: Check out my books (Gene GeRue)
   2. Re: Check out my books (Mogrits)
   3. a Homesteady post (Madison Woods)
   4. Re: a Homesteady post (Gene GeRue)
   5. Re: a Homesteady post (Don Bowen)
   6. Re: a Homesteady post (Madison Woods)
   7. Re: a Homesteady post (Don Bowen)
   8. Re: a Homesteady post (Mogrits)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:35:08 -0500
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: Homestead <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Check out my books
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And, we?re off and running!


> On Aug 30, 2016, at 11:29 AM, Don <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On 8/30/2016 10:39 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:
>> Don, are you sure you want to do this in the midst of the national 
>> political circus?
>
> Just keep in mind the foundation of the Republican party  in the 1850s was 
> the Know Nothing Party.  THey are returning to their roots.
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:54:28 -0400
From: Mogrits <mogrits AT gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Check out my books
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I'd like to participate and can promise to try to avoid the politics. It's
harder to do that now than before since everything has become intertwined.

It's hard to simply say "It sure is hot today" without triggering someone.

Never thought it would happen, but my daughter beat me to having chickens.
She's grown and married and has her own place, and her and her husband have
built quite a setup for chickens. She's been over run with eggs for several
months now and delivers to a few local places. So that's a little homestead
topic.
Warren

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> And, we?re off and running!
>
>
> > On Aug 30, 2016, at 11:29 AM, Don <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/30/2016 10:39 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:
> >> Don, are you sure you want to do this in the midst of the national
> political circus?
> >
> > Just keep in mind the foundation of the Republican party  in the 1850s
> was the Know Nothing Party.  THey are returning to their roots.
> >
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:41:38 -0500
From: "Madison Woods" <madison AT wildozark.com>
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Subject: [Homestead] a Homesteady post
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I made a blog post today that's homesteady. Made a very short little video 
clip of how we got the chainsaw out of the tree when it got stuck, lol. I 
wouldn't say it's a procedural of any sort though- way too short and doesn't 
show the whole story. Just caught the part about how we kept the saw from 
hitting the ground by tying it off when Rob pulled on the tree with the 
tractor.

I'm not sure if we were living here in the Ozarks when I joined this list or 
not, it's been so long ago that I joined. But other things have changed, too. 
I've divorced and remarried and this new husband is all on-board with the 
homesteading thing. I've been learning a lot of practical skills, like 
learning to drive the tractor and use it for various things, too. The blog 
post has lots of nature pics from that morning's feed rounds, too. Mostly 
what I write about at the blog is nature, homesteading, and ginseng.

Gene, are you still putting out books or writing articles?

https://www.wildozark.com/getting-the-chainsaw-stuck-and-unstuck/

Madison Woods

Wild Ozark ? Reconnect to Nature
https://www.wildozark.com
http://www.wildozarknaturejournal.com



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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:52:53 -0500
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
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> On Aug 30, 2016, at 5:41 PM, Madison Woods <madison AT wildozark.com> wrote:
>
> I made a blog post today that's homesteady. Made a very short little video 
> clip of how we got the chainsaw out of the tree when it got stuck, lol. I 
> wouldn't say it's a procedural of any sort though- way too short and 
> doesn't show the whole story. Just caught the part about how we kept the 
> saw from hitting the ground by tying it off when Rob pulled on the tree 
> with the tractor.
>
> I'm not sure if we were living here in the Ozarks when I joined this list 
> or not, it's been so long ago that I joined. But other things have changed, 
> too. I've divorced and remarried and this new husband is all on-board with 
> the homesteading thing. I've been learning a lot of practical skills, like 
> learning to drive the tractor and use it for various things, too. The blog 
> post has lots of nature pics from that morning's feed rounds, too. Mostly 
> what I write about at the blog is nature, homesteading, and ginseng.
>
> Gene, are you still putting out books or writing articles?

Madison, thanks for asking but, no, at 80 now, I am so busy having fun making 
things that I don?t take time to write but to simpatico friends.

Gene, Ozark County, Missouri
>
> https://www.wildozark.com/getting-the-chainsaw-stuck-and-unstuck/
>
> Madison Woods
>
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> https://www.wildozark.com
> http://www.wildozarknaturejournal.com
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>
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:20:49 -0500
From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
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On 8/30/2016 5:41 PM, Madison Woods wrote:
> I made a blog post today that's homesteady. Made a very short little video 
> clip of how we got the chainsaw out of the tree when it got stuck, lol. I 
> wouldn't say it's a procedural of any sort though- way too short and 
> doesn't show the whole story. Just caught the part about how we kept the 
> saw from hitting the ground by tying it off when Rob pulled on the tree 
> with the tractor.

I finished my yearly four trees a couple of weeks ago.  During the
process I managed to get the chainsaw caught a couple of times but with
the tractor right there is was more of an inconvenience than anything else.

My process is o drop the trees in the woods, cut them to length, then
load them on the trailer for the trip out of the woods. Down by the shop
I buck the logs while on the trailer, roll them off, then split with the
spliter, throw the firewood in the little pickup, then stack it in the
woodshed.  Ready for winter.

I have been taking leaners from along the creek but this year I am
taking stuff out of the woods.  Last year I cut a trail from the place
next door up to the top of the hill.  That made it easy to get logs out.

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:49:16 -0500
From: "Madison Woods" <madison AT wildozark.com>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] a Homesteady post
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Don we haven't gotten any of our firewood ready yet this year and I know
we're going to regret that later. Year before last we were caught the same
way and had to cut during  10 degree days. But we've been so busy with too
many other things again this year. Last year in June a flash flood caused a
landslide here that took out the driveway. At the time my husband was
working overseas so the neighbor with a big dozer opened a new, very rough,
cut on the side so I could at least get to the house in 4wd. Rob came home
in March of this year and he's been working on opening the old driveway back
up and also on the pad for a shop he wants to build. This tree we cut was a
giant cedar tree in the way. He felled it in the woods too, and we're
cutting it in 6-8' sections so we can haul it to the sawmill to have boards
made of it. It's all the limbs that I hate so much on cedars, though.

What is "bucking the logs"? I've heard the expression, but haven't a clue
what it means, lol.

Gene, well, it's good that you're having fun no matter what it is that
you're doing!

Madison Woods

Wild Ozark - Reconnect to Nature
https://www.wildozark.com
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:11:53 -0500
From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
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On 8/30/2016 7:49 PM, Madison Woods wrote:
> Don we haven't gotten any of our firewood ready yet this year and I know
> we're going to regret that later.

I am hoping it will be dry by early November.  I checked it the other
day and most of it is at 20% M.C.  Should be OK when needed.
> Year before last we were caught the same
> way and had to cut during  10 degree days.
That is a good time to be in the woods, no bugs.    Maybe this year.

>   Last year in June a flash flood caused a
> landslide here that took out the driveway.
The second year we were here a flood washed a huge hole by the concrete
crossing.  Usinf my tractor and a borrowed tractor we filled it with as
many big rocks we we could find then progressively  smaller rocks until
it was full. So far no more wash out.

>   He felled it in the woods too, and we're
> cutting it in 6-8' sections so we can haul it to the sawmill to have boards
> made of it.
I had a big Pine by the driveway that made a mess of anything under.  I
had it taken down and took one 12' log over to Gene's where we cut out
four 12" wide boards.  They will be ready to use this winter.

I am headed to another mill this week to get some rough Pine boards.  My
son bought a house in Connecticut that was built in 1915 and remained in
the same family since.  He needs to replace some door frames that are
7/8 thick.  I will plane them then take them back to him in a couple of
weeks..
> What is "bucking the logs"? I've heard the expression, but haven't a clue
> what it means, lol.
Cutting them into sections for firewood.  That is what a Buck Saw is
used for.  I cut mine to 16"-18", not with a buck saw but a chain saw.
I also split with a hydraulic splitter.  This place is so well insulated
that I can only feed one piece at a time into the stove. Otherwise it
drives you out.  We have to open upstairs windows most of the time.

--
Don Bowen  --  AD0NB mobile



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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:42:36 -0400
From: Mogrits <mogrits AT gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] a Homesteady post
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We paid a professional to fell a bunch of trees last Spring to make space
for a shop addition. There were several high risk trees and the rest too
close to my existing shop to risk it. They cut them to length but did not
buck them. I almost wish I'd paid them to do so, as it's been either too
hot or too wet or both for me to fight with them. I bucked and split a few
trees so we are good on our initial firewood needs but I have a winter of
bucking and splitting ahead of me. It's been a mild summer by our standards
(Upstate SC) but I feel the advances of age, even though I have more
equipment at my disposal than ever before.

Warren

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 8/30/2016 7:49 PM, Madison Woods wrote:
>
>> Don we haven't gotten any of our firewood ready yet this year and I know
>> we're going to regret that later.
>>
>
> I am hoping it will be dry by early November.  I checked it the other day
> and most of it is at 20% M.C.  Should be OK when needed.
>
>> Year before last we were caught the same
>> way and had to cut during  10 degree days.
>>
> That is a good time to be in the woods, no bugs.    Maybe this year.
>
>   Last year in June a flash flood caused a
>> landslide here that took out the driveway.
>>
> The second year we were here a flood washed a huge hole by the concrete
> crossing.  Usinf my tractor and a borrowed tractor we filled it with as
> many big rocks we we could find then progressively  smaller rocks until it
> was full. So far no more wash out.
>
>   He felled it in the woods too, and we're
>> cutting it in 6-8' sections so we can haul it to the sawmill to have
>> boards
>> made of it.
>>
> I had a big Pine by the driveway that made a mess of anything under.  I
> had it taken down and took one 12' log over to Gene's where we cut out four
> 12" wide boards.  They will be ready to use this winter.
>
> I am headed to another mill this week to get some rough Pine boards.  My
> son bought a house in Connecticut that was built in 1915 and remained in
> the same family since.  He needs to replace some door frames that are 7/8
> thick.  I will plane them then take them back to him in a couple of weeks..
>
>> What is "bucking the logs"? I've heard the expression, but haven't a clue
>> what it means, lol.
>>
> Cutting them into sections for firewood.  That is what a Buck Saw is used
> for.  I cut mine to 16"-18", not with a buck saw but a chain saw.  I also
> split with a hydraulic splitter.  This place is so well insulated that I
> can only feed one piece at a time into the stove. Otherwise it drives you
> out.  We have to open upstairs windows most of the time.
>
> --
> Don Bowen  --  AD0NB mobile
>
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