My brother is a seed breeder, and years ago he gave me a big bag of shucked maize cobs – several hundred I’d guess. He said they were good kindling. They are – if you light your fires with old diesel, the way he does 🙂 While they do burn well, they take a bit to get started.
Category: Craft
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Life lesson – woodworking
Our woodworking teacher in first year high school told us in our first lesson to treat the bandsaw with great respect.
He started it up. The blade blurred up to speed; the whole thing stood taller than a man, and hummed with purpose. It was like it had woken up, come alive…
He whipped a lamb shank out from behind his back and shoved it onto the band in one movement. There was the smallest “zzzt” sound. The bandsaw didn’t even slow down. Its sound didn’t change. He turned it off and it whined into silence. He held up the stump. The other half lay on the sawbed. The silence extended.
He said “that could have been your finger, your wrist or your arm. Do not fuck with this machine.”
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A simple chook-feeder
Now for something completely different! Here in the country, some people have chooks. We have chooks (well, my daughter does) and she was stricken to see that a decent chook-feeder was going to cost her 30-odd dollars of her hard-earned pocket money. So we went home and made one ourselves! It only took about fifteen minutes.