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TomBo Apr 22, 2004 14:34:35
Replying to morfe

Hi Morfe

I don't wanna get involved in a guesstimating competition either!

I didn't mean a campfire, though, I meant the fire that heats my home. To gather enough wood even to keep a small fire burning all night is a good couple of hours work. It is enjoyable work, though, as you say!

A lot of it comes down to whether the wood is green or not. Dry wood burns in no time at all.

You see that guy on the cover of the Led Zeppelin LP? I reckon he's got enough wood on his back to keep his fire burning for about a night. Personally I'd want some larger logs as well, though, if I was him (I do feel like him sometimes!).

T TomBo
TomBo Apr 22, 2004 14:35:03
Replying to TomBo

Of course "traditionally" people burnt peat on their fires, in this area.

M morfe
morfe Apr 22, 2004 16:41:35
Replying to TomBo

Hi Tombo,

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were starting a comp, what I meant was I didn't want to sart one unwittingly.
I know why I find it so rewarding to gather wood, because the smells, the sights, the creechurs, the lichen, the moss, the bryophitic glory of old deciduous woodland just grabs me by all the senses, and I can get lost for hours just 'being', with a nice fire to look forward to when it gets chilly later on.

I do like the radiator next to our flushing toilet tho ;-) Off topic alert...back to ancients and time on their hands. The whole 'outdoors' life is more itinerant and, er, organic. It just sort of falls in to place. You can't help being 'connected' to nature, as you're governed by it, and working with her is so much more rewarding and enabling than working against her. A marriage of heaven and earth depends on what one considers heaven. It's all in the mind and heart I guess.