Tree house man lives off the land. I think he needs to spend less time in the hammock, and more time cutting firewood for the coming winter!
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Other news from England: Bullets used by British soldiers ‘too small to defeat Taliban’. Not only is 5.56 too small, but the entire Enfield L85 (aka SA80) bullpup development and procurement program has been a foul-up from day one. I suppose that it is time to break out some L1A1s from their war reserve arsenal. That is, assuming they still have a few hundred thousand of them… There may not be that many. Many thousands of L1A1 parts kits that came into the US in the early 1990s. The rifles were sold off by the short-sighted British government. Their full-auto receivers were slagged, but thankfully all of the rest of the parts were then legal to sell in the US as surplus. (A tip of the hat to P.D. of the link.)
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Reader Ron S. suggested a great YouTube Video: From Cherry Log to Country Chair: making furniture with hand tools. BTW, every self-sufficient carpenter should own a shingle froe, a hardwood mallet (“maul”), an adze, and a draw knife. For any serious production, a home-built shaving horse (treadle woodworking clamp) is also a must.