Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Excess Lumber

A. has recently started taking various trees to this custom sawmill guy he found. The guy will cut wood to whatever specification required--hence the, uh, "custom" part--for a very reasonable price. Since the trees are free thanks to the generosity of our very nice neighbors, he can get some amazing boards, beams, and whatever else he wants for not much cash.

And that's why he has spare locust boards around to build crazy shit like this:



Yup.

That's a hand-operated crane. He saw something like it in some random book about farming printed in the latter part of the 19th century and decided to build one.  Really, who wouldn't? 

Right. NO ONE WOULD. Except A.

The stated purpose for the thing was to rip out this stump that's been languishing in the ground for about a year now. That's what A. claimed, anyway, but really, he just wanted to build a hand-operated crane. So he did. And it worked.

There are many adjectives that can be applied to my husband, but boring is definitely not one of them.

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4 comments:

  1. Jen AndersonMay 15, 2013 at 8:06 AM

    That's pretty freakin' badass.

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  2. AnonymousMay 15, 2013 at 8:38 AM

    I have Mother Earth News you guys can have (from back when they were good) if you want to stop by and pick them up or pay postage to mail them to you.
    A book recommendation, no two books...Carla Emery's Old Fashioned Fashioned Recipe Book(they have it at our library(paperback large) anything you could ever want to know about living like you are and more.
    For A. THE ALMANAC OF RURAL LIVING by Harvey C. Neese; Beth

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  3. Roger A. PostMay 15, 2013 at 1:20 PM

    Give A. a long enough lever, and he can move the Earth! This was a GOOD blog post.

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  4. FinnyKnitsMay 17, 2013 at 4:39 PM

    Well, that's fucking awesome.

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