Welcome to Tenacity Ridge. I live off grid and debt free in a 12 x 16 ft cabin that I built completely by myself. Follow along as I build and work on new projects in my woods.
Please note: I live locally in the area and was not just sight seeing. I had a chainsaw strapped to the back of my bike and was doing welfare checks on people, as well as clearing trees. To respect peoples privacy, I removed all those interactions from the video as well as any work I did on private property - aside from the public roadways
It’s going to be a smoky and moldy winter fireplace season because it won’t have enough time to dry out and that bark will smoke. This is a wasted post, inconsequential in terms of the disaster
Enough wood to build a winter emergency shelter and furniture and a wagon and bows and arrows to harvest meat and firewood. Build a smokehouse and smoke your meat down to jerky and you won't need refrigeration.
Be careful in there brother. I've cut trees my whole life and if you don't know exactly what you're doing you could end up in the hospital or even worse
Then probably use a lot of that for large beams, planks, ways to make bridges out of special of the old elm back in the 60s and 70s that died off, for secondary roads farm, they can use be used as emergency crossings to the main ones get done up out of the damage trees that fell , building materials
Thankfully, you're ok. Did your cabin fair the same? Hopeful that all else is good. The downed trees will keep you busy for a bit but for a good purpose. Take care.
Miraculously my cabin was untouched! Trees all around it but somehow no real damage to any of my structures. Very grateful. I'll post some videos when I can. Been busy helping out the community
A large set of wooden wedges (gluts) to use once you get the split going is very helpful. I used to do quite a bit of white oak basketry and this process was a regular occurrence. Very satisfying.
A burgler enters and spots you pointing that musket at him, but you just remembered you didn't didn't load it, be like. "oh shit, hey man just give me 30s, help your self to some juice in fridge for the time because it'll be the last drink juice you'll ever have"
it amazes me that our ancestors stood in lines taking crucial seconds reloading these things, and then firing it to just to either not hit anything or hit the man next to who you were aiming at while they're also standing in a line reloading getting ready to fire.
The cap drop was painful to watch. I’ve started using a little canvas bag as my cap container purely because I’m terrified of dropping even one. I spent a hundred bucks getting those, I’m not going to drop them in the grass.
