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Jesse Styer wrote:Did Oehler build his $50 house without using an excavator? Did he own one or barter for its use?
I'm not quite a lumberjack, but that's OK, I sleep all night and I dream all day; I'll coppice trees, I'll grow my food, and compost poo and pee! With a well and off-grid solar, it's a permies life for me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
Mark Brunnr wrote:I plan to rent a small excavator to dig out my area (less than 3 years till retirement!)
In theory, I could also use the excavator to lift the logs as well, as they will be full of water in the spring and too heavy to move by hand, even after sitting a couple months after cutting.
"Hundreds of years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the type of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that it becomes a tourist destination"
I'm not quite a lumberjack, but that's OK, I sleep all night and I dream all day; I'll coppice trees, I'll grow my food, and compost poo and pee! With a well and off-grid solar, it's a permies life for me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
Mike Haasl wrote:
Hey Mark, if you have three years, why not cut the trees this coming winter (when the sap is down), peel them and get them off the ground to dry for a summer or two? Then they'll be lighter and, I think, less likely to rot when put into the ground.
I'm not quite a lumberjack, but that's OK, I sleep all night and I dream all day; I'll coppice trees, I'll grow my food, and compost poo and pee! With a well and off-grid solar, it's a permies life for me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
If you have or can bring in a source of power, we've used a rock drill and "feathers and irons" (a special sort of wedge) to break big rocks into smaller rocks. It's not as fast as blasting, but if you've got a use for smaller rocks for gabions or rock walls or French drains, you might be able to use the results productively.Gerald Smith wrote:Has anyone had experience (re)moving large stones or boulders in a hill? I don't know what I'm going to find yet, but I know its there since there are some large (5 to 10 foot) stones jutting out of the ground in a couple places. It's about 1000 feet from a highway so dynamite isn't going to be an option, but I need some kind of an effective way to remove large stone I run into inside my hill without killing myself.
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Gerald Smith wrote:Has anyone had experience (re)moving large stones or boulders in a hill? I don't know what I'm going to find yet, but I know its there since there are some large (5 to 10 foot) stones jutting out of the ground in a couple places. It's about 1000 feet from a highway so dynamite isn't going to be an option, but I need some kind of an effective way to remove large stone I run into inside my hill without killing myself.
Yes, please do! It would be good to know. I'd like to build a couple of underground structures, but our winters are *really* wet, so if they added the roof for water reasons it would be good to know. Most people who build underground are looking to avoid obvious roofs, so the reasons are worth exploring.Guess we need to slow down, stop and be nosy.
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