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Today we're into the woods

• Forging axes in Norway
• Ditto USA 1965 Axe types: Half-wedge, Maine, Connecticut, Jersey or Michigan pattern [note to self - follow-up on axe styles; fanstone wheel 72in across replaced by smaller faster carborundum
• Two-hands two axes too much
• Slicing the cake with a maul 
• Making hard work of the firewood in snowy Vancouver I
• Felling and snedding 
• Woodpile as art form 
• And, apart from firewood, what do you do with an axe aNNyway? Make a cabin in Finland!

But if you're chopping trees down to make firewood and lumber, you have to put back

• Rewooding Iceland after 1000 years of over-grazing. Ecotypes, genetics, species selection, climate change.
• Green wall across Africa. Planting a strip (mostly Acacia). 15km deep across the Sahel to hold back the creeping sands of the Sahara.