First sunrays on the larch trees behind the birch.

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Rust and Quiet

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Four years ago, I set up three bases and concreted them 80 cm deep into our meadow for our Woodlandmill HM 126 14HP band saw. I dug the holes by hand. For the concrete, I used trass-lime-cement with different sand grain sizes ranging from 0 to 32 mm. The electric motor of the concrete mixer was no longer working, so I mixed the concrete by hand in about 30 wheelbarrow loads with a shovel (ca. 10load per base). It was hard work. Our band saw has been standing firmly and accuratly ever since on iron rails. We still need to use it more so that the investment pays off. Larch and Arolla pine are precious timberwood. Maximum cutting lenght (with two extension) is 7 meters.

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Lago di Sorapis

One of the most stunning places I've been to in the Dolomites. Last year I was here on a warm summer day. Earlier this autumn, though, the lake looked radically different, being completely frozen over. Both times, I did the easy hike up (route 215), and the considerably harder hike down (route 216 & 213). The latter offers the most sensational views over the surrounding mountains and is very well worth the effort. You mustn't be afraid of heights, though.

📷 5D Mark IV · 16-35mm
⚙️ 16mm · f/22 · ISO 200 · 1/200s
📆 2025-10-03 · 13:16

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Some firewood (two rows) under our woodshed (still under the old partly leaking roof). Some leftover wood blanks that I still need to hand split and a few leftover pieces of sapwood from the already splitted spelts.
The sapwood scraps I'll cut into firewood pieces. (60-80cm for the big oven and 30-40cm for the smaller stove)

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30/10 Last two arolla pine spelt section. My small carver Kalthoff axe and my Morakniv knife did a good job again today.

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The first section of the fence in larch wood.
I wedged the first and last fence posts very accuratly with stones 80 cm deep. You could tie a wild bull to this posts.

Instead of using 150 cm nails, I should have used thick 120-130cm nails to nail down the crossbars. Wooden nails would have been even better. The 150 cm iron nails were a little too long and pierced some of the halved columns by a few millimetres and split some of the crossbar ends. When using thick nails on larch boards (especially near the board ends), you should always pre-drill a hole that (ca. 80% of the nail diameter), as iron nails have a strong splitting effect on larch wood (blunting the tip of the nail slightly reduces the splitting effect). I did this, but did not pre-drill.
The strong fence posts does not have to be predrilled at full lenght.
I started with wood nails, but that was too slow for the lady. The extra hour wouldn't have made any difference. After setting 8 larch wood nails, I switched to the too-long iron nails without pre-drilling. Didn't make the whole thing any better.

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