The monsoon is beginning to subside and the river is calming down, so I've been busy collecting the fruits of illegal logging.
Easy River Access Is Gone 🪜
The 1+ month long flood has eroded everyone's land, leaving most of us with vertical cliffs at the river's edge instead of manageable slopes. Our first hammock hut barely survived, but the pile of boulders I placed on the upstream side of the hut sank about two meters. Most of the rocks are still in place, but the silt and soil underneath was all washed away, so now I've got to start piling rocks again.
Three timbers speared the first hammock hut, and were still stuck inside the gaping hole under the hut that you can see in the above photo, above and to the right of my rubber turban. I previously spent a day cutting the timbers into workable pieces with a hand axe and saw, then I pulled everything out and upstream where it all came from.
🖐️ Smashing My Fingers Like A Real Man 🪨
Without a pulley system or some kind of mechanical advantage, these timbers will stay where they are until the next flood washes them away. I'd love to rig up a system of some kind like this to winch logs and timbers up the hill, especially since heavy rains always deliver some sad fruits of illegal logging. Pulleys and cable/rope for this project will cost money we should really be spending on other things at the moment, so it's likely I'll end up cutting things into pieces small enough to haul up the hill manually.
I've mostly been piling rocks because the river was still too dangerous to cross, but a few days ago I managed to ford the river and see what treasures were in the creeks and forest on the other side. At that time the water was still too high to consider moving wood across the main river, but now it's somewhat safe even though the water is too brown to see how deep it is. In the above photo the water is shallow where I'm standing, but only a few feet away is a man-sized hole that I comically fell into earlier in the day.
Collecting Wood For Hügelkultur 🪵
A few years ago I worked a season on a small farm in Oregon with an old friend of mine, and we experimented with hügelkultur, which involves digging out a trench or pit, filling the void with wood/logs/timbers/dead trees, then covering the pile with soil again, ultimately building a raised mound with plenty of nutrients for roots to enjoy for many years. This systems worked really well for us, and I will build a mound soon here once I have gathered enough wood.
The reason I have all these pics is because I invited the missus to join me for a swim in the creeks across the river. The water is clear on the other side, but because neither one of us were brave enough to carry our phones across the river, we have no pics of that adventure. The forest is littered with downed trees, planks, and partially finished woodworking projects, so we hope to snatch as many of these treasures as possible before anyone else gets to them.
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