Just a photo to bring you a smile on a fall morning

[ThomWV]

I hope you like it as much as I do. Put a little artistry in your work, it will bring a smile to your face and the faces of others.



Disclaimer: This is not my photograph and not my woodpile, I just found the picture and like it.

[hlthe2b]

1. WOW....

I don't know what else to say....;)

[kayakjohnny]

2. That reminds me of this guy....

Andy Goldsworthy



http://www.google.com/search?q=andy+goldsworthy+website&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS337&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LVKXToijMsqitge8l6HmAw&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=955#q=andy+goldsworthy+website&hl=en&sa=X&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS337&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=61fe497b055e6c27&biw=1280&bih=831



Thanks for the great pic, ThomWV

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

19. Wow, I like his work, too.

Thanks for sharing.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

28. incredible! thanks for the link! n/t

[Amonester]

3. One less tree will process oxigen out of CO2.

What are we thinking?

[aikoaiko]

7. Take heart. I'm sure it was a snag.

[Amonester]

12. 1 or 10 trees won't make a difference.

A 'spreading' of the 'habit' through billions of homo-sapiens does.

While Solar dies...

[reggie the dog]

27. why not comine wood heating

with solar panels to heat your home and hot water too? hell add wind into the equation, each new home built should have solar panels as the roof and everyone should have windmills of some kind for electricity production, i know it is not reliable 24 7 but you can use your own wind and solar to say heat or cool your home depending on season and to heat your water for hot water. in a rural setting you can offset what the sun cannot heat for you buy burning wood, which you can get from your own wood heating sustainable plot if you have a big enough plot of land.

[ThomWV]

11. Repeat after me: Renewable resource, Renewable resource, Renewable resource, ...

[Amonester]

13. Depends on the quantity of renewable resource available...

to renew the resource, and the quantity of CO2 that's added 24/365.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

20. The artist whose facebook page I posted

(Cindy Tower) uses wood from fallen trees. She decorates her firewood.

[reggie the dog]

26. that wood will be burned to heat a house

and will thus reduce either electricity or heating oil consumption, and will likely be offset by planting another tree, many people have wood plots they leave wild and just thin trees out to heat and let nature replant or take to replanting if they think the woods are getting too thin and they never exhaust their family heating wood plots for generations (not multi families i am saying the same plot can heat the one home for generations, the other family members that move on have to maintain their own plot, which is pretty damn easy and cost effective)

[reggie the dog]

25. some city people really have no idea how many forest dwellers

heat their homes with wood each winter. of course we are not cutting lots of trees down and i know people with big enough plots of land that they know they need to plant 6 trees a year so that in 30 years they can keep harvesting 6 trees a year (not huge sized trees mind you, but nice enough sized after 30 years or so, you just need a plot big enought for 150 or 200 trees and you have your own sustainable heat supply. plus when storms blow over trees you dont even have to fall them, just chop up what has tumbled. i also know people who do just that, they own some woods, some pastures and harvest the trees knocked down each winter and just let their forest plots grow and have always had enough to take a big dent out of their heating costs by using a wood burning stove and have not seen their plot of forest diminish.

[reggie the dog]

24. i am thinking that the person is going to heat their home like this

my friend has a ranch where the previous owner planted trees very close to one another all along the lane and around the fields, you can cut out 3 of every 5 trees and within one summer the branches of the remaining 2 fill in the shade canopy again. plus there is the "field" left fallow for 20 years that is filling in with pine and oak, when that is clear cut in 20 or so years the other field which is now used for grazing will be left alone so that trees can grow up there and the area with the trees will be where the goats will graze, the idea is for the ranch to produce enough wood to heat itself. next step is the solar panels for the hot water heater.

[wickerwoman]

29. After trees reach a certain age,

they actually produce more C02 than oxygen.

That's why carbon sinks have to be cut down and replanted periodically. The trees only act as a carbon sink while they're young.

And I'd rather see this guy heating his house and cooking with wood in the countryside than someone in the city heating their home with electricity from a coal burning power plant.

[Brickbat]

4. Oof, that's a lot of work. But beautiful. We're lucky if we get ours stacked at all.

:rofl:

[peacebird]

5. Does a large amorphous pile under a tarp count as "stacking"?

Cuz that is the limit of our effort as well... LOL!

[Brickbat]

6. Only if it doubles as a home for mice and chipmunks!

;) :hi:

[Arkansas Granny]

8. So, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck. . . .

Great picture.

[xchrom]

9. wow. nt

[aikoaiko]

10. As someone who used to split and stack a lot of wood, it made me chuckle.

Thank you.

[Lucinda]

14. Very cool!

:)

[MineralMan]

15. Cool wood pile. Mine have never been that neat.

Someone had a lot of time, and a good imagination.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

16. Fantastic ! Thanks for sharing

It reminded me of some of Cindy Tower's work

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pu.132318228364&type=1#!/photo.php?fbid=10150141759323365&set=pu.132318228364&type=1&theater

[badhair77]

17. That did make me smile.

There's art wherever you look for it. Thanks.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

18. deleted dupe

Firefox farted. Never had that happen before

[bvar22]

21. Thanks for my new Desktop photo.

Amazing!
Just amazing.

That reminds me.
Winter is almost here,
and we've got some work to do
if we want to stay warm.

[Poll_Blind]

22. Beautiful!

:thumbsup:

PB

[Odin2005]

23. LMAO! That is awesome!