American writer Wendell Berry sums up the holistic nature of working natural materials-

‘The good worker loves the board before it becomes a table, loves the tree before it yields the board, loves the forest before it gives up the tree’.

It’s a good season to work wood, the sap is down, birds have nested and the activity of harvesting, splitting and working wood keeps you warm in January winds.

Here’s a project to aid the processing of firewood for winter’s woodburners-the Log Mule (i don’t think ‘saw horse is the right name).

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