Hand Tools and Machinery for Country Living

[caleb]

Glad you're taking it on. I was told by a few sources that most of the unpainted old barns were hemlock, which apparently has some sort of magical oil in it that allows it to avoid rotting in a wet climate.

[Too Tall]

Wow that's cool Jake.

[AngryScientist]

We got a light coating of snow last night and it's cold AF out. I'm about to go out there and attempt some doughnuts in the lawn tractor.

[Too Tall]

We got a light coating of snow last night and it's cold AF out. I'm about to go out there and attempt some doughnuts in the lawn tractor.

I want to see a camel cig. hanging from your lip.

Make it happen man.

Same here, however me being of the lesser hominid variety will train indoors. Oh the shame.

[j44ke]

One of our neighbors - local historian - asked me if I'd found the barbecue in the privet thicket yet. It's in there, he said, where the ladies used it during the summer. "The ladies" were two women who owned the small house and barn (now ours) between the 1930's and 1960's, one of 4 houses dating back to the early 1800's bought in the 30's by several pairs of women in (local term it seems) "Boston marriages". Our street narrows here to a narrower section called "Ladies Road" by some of the older people. The ladies were scientists, writers, editors and publishers from Boston and NYC. They hosted salons and invited writers and others to lecture and take questions. Any men who visited had to stay in a (very) small cabin in the backyard of the houses to maintain proper decorum. And they evidently enjoyed cooking out of doors.

After about 45 minutes of cutting through very densely interwoven and overgrown privet, I saw a chimney.

[TonyP]

One of our neighbors - local historian - asked me if I'd found the barbecue in the privet thicket yet. It's in there, he said, where the ladies used it during the summer. "The ladies" were two women who owned the small house and barn (now ours) between the 1930's and 1960's, one of 4 houses dating back to the early 1800's bought in the 30's by several pairs of women in (local term it seems) "Boston marriages". Our street narrows here to a narrower section called "Ladies Road" by some of the older people. The ladies were scientists, writers, editors and publishers from Boston and NYC. They hosted salons and invited writers and others to lecture and take questions. Any men who visited had to stay in a (very) small cabin in the backyard of the houses to maintain proper decorum. And they evidently enjoyed cooking out of doors.

After about 45 minutes of cutting through very densely interwoven and overgrown privet, I saw a chimney.

Does it have a working future?

[j44ke]

Does it have a working future?

Needs excavation. There is actually a semi-circular wall out to either side and then some kind of stone floor surface underneath a lot of roots and dirt. So fingers crossed.

[bigbill]

I'm clearing weeds and I've bent my hoe pickaxe blade a few times. I used my vise to straighten it out but at some point, I expect it to break. I used it in the PNW to build paths through our property, so it's old enough to vote.