I’ll convert the word “Hates” to “Hate”. When I write “you” I mean me, my experience in life. This is my experience.
Hate steels your freedom. Hate will enslave you. You will fall pray to being controlled by someone else. Hate is the thief, in the dark, that will destroy your ability to reason. Hate will damage the people around you. The Trickster God will use hate as a vehicle to control you. Once under the control of hate, few people sober up. Welcome to hell, you have gained access. No reason to split firewood . . .
On the other hand; the better you become at rejecting hate, the more empowered you become. The freer you become. No longer a slave. clear head.
It’s not easy, but with practice, the better you become.
Funny thing; hate is not all bad. Hate can teach and hate WILL test us all.
I live in the Los Angeles area and, we have many thousands of people camping out who never planned it that way. A LOT of people are very worried about their future. For good reason. Automation has wiped out thousands of job niches.
I want to explain economics without being political. The politics are just incidental to the economic problems.
Parkinson’s law states that all government bureaucracies will grow by 6% a year regardless of work load. 6% year over year, imagine that.
51% of Americans receive a check from the GOV. 22 million work directly for GOV. Price’s law states that; the square root of the number of your employees does 1/2 the work. In the case of America, that means that 6240 gov workers do 1/2 the work. The remainder of the 22 million do the other half.
The State is NATURALLY, self-serving. As automation reduces the productive workforce, there are fewer workers to support the ever-growing State bureaucracy.
Arkansas spends $26,000 every year to maintain ONE MILE of 2-lane State highway.
New Jersey spends $1,102, 679 to maintain ONE MILE of 2-lane highway.
At the same time, containerized shipping has brought us a global mean wage in manufacturing. In the West, our aggregate purchasing power is diminishing. This, at the same time that the global aggregate productive capacity is growing.
The State is floundering around trying to keep it’s income growing commensurate with it’s ever-growing payroll. Evidently, the State believes that strict monitoring & control is the answer.
ALL of this is a natural progression in the birth & death of a State.
Strauss & Howe wrote a book, Generational Turnings, that explains all of this.
ALL democracies fail. America went from being a democratic-republic to a democracy starting with the 17th amendment.
This is the road that we are on. Automation has made things much more complicated. Sadly, there is NO cure for efficiency.
Everybody wants to be able to make long-term plans. I hope that this helps.
Chris, if you want to delete this, it won’t break my heart.
So what did you accomplish with this WilliamB, eh?
Your own presentation says this is inevitable and hopeless.
Like a person getting a Cancer diagnosis. Quit on life. Just curl up and die.
What DOW/Wood-For-Power is about is that for the Individual it is not hopeless.
You do have the possibility to siege back some control, and therefore, independence in your own Life.
Weak minded idiots listening to left-wing rousers urged on by loser Hillary to “Resist! Resist! Resist!” are why we’ve been having the streets riots here in the PNW.
Weak minded idiots listening to right-wing rousers of now lost it D.T. why we had thousands jet-fly and auto-drive across this nation to concentrate, to rip and tear into the physical buildings symbols of our nation.
You read. You’ve just said so.
Read just one more book, “Slow Apocalypses” by John Varney.
His get-out-of L.A.; la$-la$-land NOW! While you can to his screen writer friends. Walk away from the money. Go, go, go, now; while you can.
Well Sir . . . you are still there. To me this say all I need to know about you, your character, and the validity of anything you have to say. You soap box. You rabble rouse. You go for the screen reads. The “vote” for your energy.
DOW is a lifestyle. A hard working wood sweating lifestyle.
And you ain’t got it. You just don’t get it.
A Euro fellow recently tried this separate politics from Economics trick on a couple of us recently. The upshot? Three fellows now mad as hell with each other. Scratch an itch that should have been left alone to rest and heal and be forgotten.
Spirited Debate to let the truth rise out is utter crap logic and hell-fire on social associations. IS Politics. Period.
Belongs back with Might, Proves Out Right, warring-jousting, to bigger wars of the years 1000 through 1918.
Anger fed: eats up the angered and the feeder of that anger. Anger is it’s own Beast. Always there. Hungry to grow. Best left, hungry and weak.
DO NOT FEED THE ANGER.
Steve Unruh
I wrote about the sweep of history. There are always people who fall. There are always people who succeed. I’ll stay in L.A. until it gets too dangerous. I have a 16 acre fallback location in Coastal Oregon. I’m being as apolitical as I can. I wrote about the State, nothing but the State.
Interesting this HenryB.
I read a British rail historian say that wood-tars and coal-tars were the preservative savior of the early decades of British rail build-up of wooden infrastructure. Rail ties, signal towers and the earliest trestles. And only two of theses could later be converted to stone, iron and steels.
Regards
Steve Unruh
I would think of ships before trains .
Few visitors to any ship which as been rigged in a traditional manner have left the vessel without experiencing the aroma of pine tar. The aroma produces reactions that are as strong as the scent; few people are ambivalent about its distinctive smell.
The old age of Cooper’s Ferry is about 15,000 to 16,000 years old. "I just never had thought that the site was going to be this old.”
That the first people to see the American continents were seafarers who paddled to the Pacific Coast.
“The most parsimonious explanation we think is that people came down the Pacific Coast, and as they encountered the mouth of the Columbia River, they essentially found an off-ramp from this coastal migration and also found their first viable interior route to the areas that are south of the ice sheet,” https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/08/coopers-landing-idaho-site-americas-oldest/
The average yield for one cord (4,000 lb.) of “light wood” might be:
Wood turpentine 8 to 15 gal.
Total oils; including tar 65 to 100 gal
Tar 40 to 60 gal.
Charcoal 25 to 35 bushels or 403 to 564 lbs.
Nice!
My Kubota is to small for that. What kind of tractor is that?
I made a fork for it but 150 kg is max if you dont want to wheely all the time. Extra ballast and the little thing will break.
Tone, those chips look like made by a rebak/stepcovac? I don’t recall pics or vids of it
On your roof, every four tiles on every other row have something that looks like a handle on it. I’ve never seen anything like that?
There are a few different manufacturers in Italy of small 4 wheel drive tractors like that German Holder. My pasquali is basically the same tractor and around here far more common. Goldoni also made some well built tractors. I would look for anyone of those brands if I was looking for a small 4wd articulated tractor. The only thing I didn’t like about my pasquali is the hydraulic system. It was designed to run the power steering not the loader I think I will end up putting a different pump on it eventually but that is me asking alot of the loader and wanting more speed.
Thanks Tone, Dan. Work has exploded here. Still in my armchair. Only heating on wood. Made the tour all around and came back to sawdust. Thinking of Joni’s gasifier to really start. Someone suggested in the past to start with just a gasifier and after that a IC engine. I think that is my path.
Anyway. In the meantime, harvesting wood is ok. Only the Kubota is to light. And the other day I saw a tractor with steering in the midle and a forklift behind. A lot weight up front compared to a normal tractor! How much can you lift like that, Tone?
Last thing, is it a two stroke? Do you like that? Never saw a two stroke diesel. Any pro s and cons?
I have used wood as big as would fit as heavy as I could lift and it is all gone . I cut through a tree and could not get it to fall . And stopped cutting trees and picked up all the branches . Now I have snow and I am not cutting down trees in the snow .
I have never figured out how they did it but In the 1890’s they ran a rail line though the swamp at the back of my property. Made a bed somehow. A lot of the ties are still in the ground and some of the spikes. I broke a pick handle trying to pry one of those spikes out of that wood. I assume the ties were soaked in creosote or maybe coal tar. Whatever it was it lasted longer than some PT decks I’ve replaced. I have also replace rotted redwood and cedar decks. None of them were more than about 50 years old.
