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My husband and I are in the final stages of building our mortgage free, cordwood masonry home on 11 acres of wooded property here in the Niagara Region of Western New York. This project has challenged us both mentally and physically. but it is well worth the hard work and sacrafice.
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Cordwood Masonry Prep

This week we concentrated on preparing the logs Myron skidded up from the woods, for use on our cordwood masonry home.  Preparing the cordwood consists of 4 separate processes; (1) Marking the lo...
Posted by on Tue, 22 May 2007 16:05:00 GMT

And so it begins. . .

There are two schools of thought, on the best method for cutting, hauling and otherwise preparing cordwood from your own woods.  The first method, often called skidding, involves dragging large t...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:01:00 GMT

". . . mind of man"

"I swear upon the altar of God, eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~Thomas Jefferson
Posted by on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:08:00 GMT

Ground of my own. . .

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.  Better tha...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:44:00 GMT

"I went to the woods because. . ."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I h...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:22:00 GMT