Mastodawn

Never know when you need a hand forged iron ring to ballast your rope so you can throw it over the 5m high roof beam in the barn. Good thing I kept that.

Hoisted that sack of fresh woodchips up there, out of the way. Let's see if they dry like that or just get mouldy. Or drop on my head in a surprise attack.

#Rope #Barn #Homestead #Sack #Woodchips

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Mute Dog Brewing 13h ago

@yngmar what's the goal of having dried wood chips? Is that a fabric sack? depending on how wet the chips are it might mold before it dries. Smaller/less bulky bags would probably work better? or put it in a sauna?

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar 12h ago

@Mutedog The goal for now is to find out if it works. Dried woodchips have many uses :)

It's a cheap chicken food sack, woven polypropylene, fairly permeably to air even if it weren't full of holes. I used one on the table saw to catch sawdust and that works fine, the air can leave, the sawdust stays in the sack.

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Mute Dog Brewing

@yngmar gotcha, I'd go for a smaller (or flatter) sack. I've dried wood chips for my smoker and have had mold grow in the middle of paper grocery bags full of chips. Stirring the chips up may also help.