As spring arrives, it's time to secure new firewood and let it dry over the summer. You could make an ordinary woodpile. Or ...
Stacking and storing firewood properly ensures that it's dry and usable come wintertime. Try this simple technique, which is ...
Residents take pride in their timber piles, debate best techniques News is obsessed with the flashy questions: “Is God Dead?” “Who Killed Kennedy?” “What is a Kardashian?” Yet for years, a quieter ...
A few weeks ago my neighbor and I were talking firewood. Specifically, we were talking about whether to stack with the bark up or the bark down. He’s a rugged, quiet, mid-western Norwegian type. “Well ...
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Storing firewood can be a significant undertaking if you use a lot of it. People who heat their homes with wood using a woodstove, or who burn wood outdoors for cooking or campfires, need space for ...
’Tis the season of cooped-up kids. Snow days, lice epidemics, and absurdly long school vacations—there are many different causes of cabin fever. Never find yourself sub-caffeinated and un-showered in ...
In 2012, I spent a season on a wildland firefighting crew based just outside California’s Sequoia National Park. Our first assignment wasn’t a wildfire but a cleanup project at Devils Postpile ...