Bull Sigh

Do you still have copies of the hard cover?

If IFI had a thumbs-up button to click, you'd have many, JHCC.

There is a Youtube timber frame builder who uses the handle of Mr. Chickadee and he has a video of building a timber frame smithy. He builds in the Japanese timber frame style, so that's not what the OP here was looking for, but Mr. Chickadee is an interesting guy that makes lots of cool stuff, so you may enjoy checking it out.

Are you experiencing any tippiness if you are out on the end of the horn or on the heel?

LOL, JHCC. "This has definitely been a strange turn of thread." My fault, sorry...

"I had to look up "challenging matrix for a nutrients digestion method," read a few hits and am lost. Why would anyone want to make digest nutrients challenging. Don't get where matrix comes in." It relates to analysis of nutrients in natural waters, since high levels of nutrients are toxic to bugs and beasts. Many analytical methods convert similar contaminants to one single compound by a digestion procedure, then analyze for that compound and report a total. For example, nitrate and nitrite ion are related and can contaminate a river if excess levels of fertilizer are used. That's a common issue, see "Gulf of America (or Mexico) Hypoxia" in a search. Some methods convert nitrite to nitrate, then analyze for nitrate. Waterways with high levels of fine particulate shale can basically swamp the capacity of the analytical method's digestion procedure.

"So on the walls I installed plenty small floodlights so i have plenty of light from different sources and angles to eliminate as much as possible shadows." You nailed it, Gewoon. Having a mixture of diffuse light and direct light is what works best for me. As I age and my vision deteriorates, this becomes more important.

"So Bull my friend I gift you with this, one of my favorite rabbit holes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Shale" Wild. I've heard of Burgess Shale because it was used as a challenging matrix for a nutrients digestion method, but I had no idea of the history WRT fossils. It's a huge world out there.

I admitted once that I had a bad case of Fungi Fear. Botanists like to do that naming crap. I avoid it whenever possible. I start with Oliver Medsger: Edible Wild Plants. Available used under $10.

LOL on rabbit hole. Yes, much of the natural product world makes me wonder about humans. For another large rabbit hole, look at Sacred Datura and Native American rituals. Pyrrolizidines were a badger hole for me at the time. I did my work in Scrophulariaceae, mostly Indian Paintbrush. They are worth avoiding: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/20801500/PALecture2010.pdf

Frosty said: "Remember fellow travelers, if it tastes or smells Bitter it is an alkaloid poison." That is a good general rule to live by. Emphasis on "live". My grad dissertation was focused on natural product alkaloids. Working in that area, you run into all kinds of literature about alkaloid consumption gone wrong - to the point of poisonings and death. After I finished school, I went to work with a guy that had been an apprentice of Alexander Shulgin. Shulgin discovered and re-discovered many alkaloids from the synthetic side, informed by structures found in nature. For example, MDMA was one of his re-discoveries, and you can think of MDMA as a synthetic analog of amphetamine. Shulgin was fairly successful at finding and testing (on himself and/or his wife) psychoactive alkaloids. He lived to age 88, managing to thread the eye of the poison needle. I find it ironic that much of his work was done while employed at a major chemical company, where his management chain was clueless about what he was really doing. When they finally figured it out, they pushed him out. Relative to your comment, Frosty, Shulgin ingested his purified alkaloids for decades, but if you read his publications, you see he started with low doses, in the microgram range, then ramped up stepwise. I wouldn't even recommend people to replicate that process. People have died by drinking wildflower teas that had low quantities of pyrolizidine alkaloids, for example.

I like this stand! I recently made a wood anvil stand from oak I reclaimed from an abandoned piece of furniture, but down the road, my plan is to make a stand from steel.

The Birch incident sounds brutal. It's great you survived it.

"I think Anaerobic does not mean what you think it means." No I'm aware of the meaning of the word. Our property is at 8500' and it's not that difficult to get into the zone where I'm anaerobic. I could slow down to the point where I'd stay aerobic, but I guess I enjoy pushing my limited fitness in hopes of a training benefit. Princess Bride is a classic that is fun to re-watch. "You know they put engines on saws to make killing and butchering trees easier don't you?" I have no real excuses for using axes and hand saws for cutting trees except that I enjoy the work and the more peaceful experience. I've got great quality gas and electric chain saws and do use them when I'm in high productivity mode, but especially after retiring, I end up doing manual labor more often. Down the road, I'm going to apply to the USFS for a lumber cutting permit and for sure, the gas chain saws will be on that job. I've worn out quite a few high quality chain saws.

I just found this thread. Does anyone have a status update? I hope he is on the mend and am praying for his health.