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These days I prefer to watch wood being turned into stuff. (Rather than politics stuffing stuff).
Like the one above, by a young Swedish man, Erik Grinkvist. He built his own log cabin, by hand, using only hand tools. Carefully choosing only older spruce trees, planting saplings to replace those he took, using only hand saws and axes and hatchets and adzes and augurs and chisels and log gouges and spokeshaves… hauling logs by hand… well, look at the video. It’s moving, what this determined young man does. And relaxing, too.
Other wood stuff I like looking at: making fine furniture from scrap wood, like old pallets, making guitars (I’ve made three and a mandolin), wood splitters, turning logs into lumber, building wooden houses and barns.
I got led to a tour of Richard Proenneke’s log cabin in Alaska. He was a famous naturalist…unknown to me until my wood-wind tour. This is a good one.
