About the only woodburning that would make sense would be woodwaste for charcoal/biochar with syngas production for the useful chemistry, and burying/ploughing under the charcoal. But charcoal syngas is awfully dirty chemosynthetic process feed, so I'm not aware of anyone doing it at scale
I mean, most of the wood from, say, Coppergate or Hedeby, is ax felled and then riven, and saws only come into it when you're working smaller timber. And if I want a flat working surface before big frame saws (Early Modern if I'm not Roman), then reeving a log and giving it legs is easier.
I often fell trees with an axe cut knotch to undercut below, and then a frame saw horizontal cut above, so you end up with a stepped cut, and the top of that cut can be horizontal if I'm paying attention. But workbenches are a thing from Roman times, and they're often a riven log with legs.
But that said, small frame saws didn't disappear, there's Carolingian illustrations and small arch finds of handle fragments, so if I _want_ a stump to use as a working surface or chopping block, then I don't need a large two man frame saw, I can use a smaller frame saw with say, a 60-100 cm blade.
Where and when is always a problem - If you look at the Roman context, then they were definitely using large frame saws and pit sawn timber techniques with frame saws, but large frame sawn timbers, whether plank or cross cut, then seem to disappear in the UK until the late 15th-mid 16th century
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Certainly the heaps of chainsaw cut firewood that I split at most events do break the immersion, but when gleaning of brushwood is allowed, I find that a hand framesaw, a splitting wedge, and a hammer, is as good as an axe, for getting sufficient firewood.
I think also the advent of water, steam or motor driven frame, circular and chain saws since the early modern period means that we generate a lot more waste wood from large trees, which prior to those saws were things you only cut down when you wanted _big_ wood for structure/building purposes.
The beeswax and pine tar shrouds keeps them nice and fresh
St Bees Man - Lead Sealed coffin with juicy 14th century Brutal Crusader Mummy inside, Awoken by Archaologists, the revenant baron tries to re-start the baltic crusades single handedly.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Yeah, I'm considering my options if they give me that answer. Am probably going to go for 'I'm a bronchial asthmatic who needs it, and I'm regularly in contact with immunocompromised people, give me the booster or call in your manager'
Gun Safety Tips with Burt!
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Burt says: “Not all men” = “Not all guns are loaded.”
But how you handle every gun you come in contact with? You treat it like it’s loaded until you are absolutely sure it is safe.
Somewhere back in 2012 or so I think I saw a scan of a _2_ page geotechnical report that gave a max tsunami inundation for the site of around a meter, which was clearly cooked.
Apparently people are already onto these...
Those tracks are still in use, you can tell by the bright steel of the top surfaces. However, the line is severely under-maintained, and needs the sleepers completely replaced and the rails re-bedded, regardless of the fault creep, just obvious deferred maintenance degradation.
Yes, I've always been cynical of the people who think we can just evacuate several million people when a large caldera wakes up. It's hard to move people until the thing is actually happening, then it's too late.
It will be really depressing, but horribly, darkly funny, if Artemis is crippled by windows software crud or copilot generative llm code in it's onboard computers, rather than dodgy o-ring booster seals.
This is amusing :-)
If anyone is wondering why I'm not even trying to look for employment in NZ as a scientist after getting the chop from GNS Science last year, this is why:
A woman in late migration era to early medieval clothing laid out on a mortice and tenon wooden bed to represent a migration era burial. She wears a blue woolen tunic and white linen undertunic, over which is a lighter blue peplos, pinned at the shoulders. Both woollen garments are decorated with tablet woven red and blue bands. At her hip is a belt with a blue woollen ring pouch, and she has naalebinded socks and light leather slippers. On her head is a veil, and to the right of her head is a carved bone comb. To the left of the bed on a rug is a bag and pouches containing early medieval sewing equipment, plus a jug, cup and knife, together with woven leg bindings, a rigid heddle, and some spools of wool
And my partner in reenactmenty crimes, J., going a bit earlier with a more late migration era look:
A man in early medieval clothing lying on a mortice and tennon jointed wooden bed, on a herringbone woven blanket, wearing a brown woollen coat, braes, hose, legbindings and turnshoes, belted with a leather belt bearing two knives and a pouch. At his feet is a roundshield, and he holds a small axe in his right hand. To the left laid out on a rug is a bow, arrows, spear, helmet, plus a platter and jug with food offerings, and a small ceramic cup.
That did start a bit of a trend, we all got into it. Here's me in an early medievalish anglo-scandinavian grave goods and clothing-ish bed burial:
Unfortunately he's financially insulated from his poor reasoning skills, so there's a lot more burnout left to go before he can get help, I think. I've some similar family members with these beliefs, and there's often decades of destroying their support network before they realise what's wrong
I discovered at the end of a couple decades in industry (exploration geo then phd, then mostly exploration/geotech; Partner's an astronomer turned traffic data scientist) that I have ADHD and tend to self sabotage any job that doesn't keep me in the exciting dangerous field and response work...
Yep. I'm unusual, post our phds, I followed my partner to her postdoc and worked as a technician; after that, she followed me a kimberlite exploration job, but she couldn't find work in that city, and my manager at the time was an embezzling dickhead, so I quit and followed her to the next job.
Noting that Clearview products are already in use/in trial for several years on and off by the NZ police and other local services.
Ahead of the curve
The whiskey fume reeking ghost of Rob Muldoon in his guise as that time he played the narrator from Rocky Horror, whispering over Luxon's shoulder while draping a fishnet clad leg around his thigh 'Do it man, Think Biiiiig'
I see the slogans now: "It is imperative for the security of Aotearoa New Zealand that we cease to be dependent on foreign oil market adventurism!" Surely he'll see it as an election winner if he implements it all now, this month! Use that Urgency Hard, man.
Furthermore: Complete electrification and reinstatement of rail to every major regional city of Geraldine size or bigger. Oh, and nationalising and unmothballing Marsden Point specifically for local biodiesel production until we can electrify all farm tractors and prime movers for milk tankers etc
