Another Short Trip

A few more "carpentering" supplies, this time some charred White Mahogany (Eucalyptus acmenoides). Nearly finished the first cord... only one tree to go. I dont know what crazy dog was dreaming about, but it looked tasty.

[@ivanlyons6466]

Another great video Kurt, “ Gotta love the Serenity “ .

[@kurts64]

So much serenity! Haha classic, thanks mate!

[@Brian2bears]

Kurt, I am just seeing this stack of axe cut wood at the house...WOW...

[@kurts64]

G'day mate, cheers for checking out the older vids!

[@Brian2bears]

@@kurts64 Kurt you are a film artist and an axeman....

[@kurts64]

@@Brian2bears thanks mate. Loved mucking around with still cameras since a kid so it's been good fun trying to learn the video side of it this year

[@brettbrown9814]

Great video Kurt! Kevin told me about your channel. Happy to subscribe.

[@kurts64]

G'day Brett, thanks for stoppin by and havin a look.. Cheers! Where abouts you from?

[@brettbrown9814]

@@kurts64 I was born in Texas and have lived in Christchurch, NZ since 2001.

[@kurts64]

@@brettbrown9814 Cool, some family went over the ditch just before covid broke out. They came home raving about it, mountains, hot springs, the works. Be great to see it one day.

[@JourneyNorthAK]

I'm an axe guy and vintage tool channel..Kevin sent me over.👍

[@kurts64]

G'day mate, thanks for havin a look, and the comment. I'll check out your vids, sounds good!

[@guyvanderveken5041]

Great vid again, love the Pooch, Danger Close, what tree coming down? Lol

[@kurts64]

Lol cheers mate, yeah he's a quick little bugger!

[@KevinsDisobedience]

Kurt, I can’t have this. You’re starting to make me look bad! Great axemanship and editing. Now you know what I go through to make a vid. It takes 3-4x longer than just doing it. But I enjoy it. Looks like you do too. Can’t wait to see what you do next.

[@kurts64]

Haha I think your safe. It does take a while, and that's without all the graphics, voiceovers, thumbnails, music that you do. Must take forever! The leather sheath vid that I lost took about 8 hrs to film and edit... for a 1 hour sheath build. Hope you like the next one...should be up in a few days!

[@samulikilpinen1233]

That's some fine looking firewood. It's some australian hardwood?

[@kurts64]

G'day mate thanks for watching! Yes all a mix of Aussie hardwood, ironbark, spotted gum, grey gum, blackbutt, bloodwood and brushbox. Are you doing the challenge?

[@samulikilpinen1233]

@@kurts64 Yeah, I'm trying to aim for one rick atleast. You guys got much more interesting tree species down there though when compared to our spruce and birch. Actually always had a dream of visiting Australia, so friggin' interesting place in general.

[@kurts64]

@@samulikilpinen1233 That's cool, I've always wanted to check out those northern hemisphere conifer forests! Snow, bears... awesome. Where are you from?

[@samulikilpinen1233]

@@kurts64 We live in southern Finland near the coast but my wood lot is further inland. You in Queensland? I might be totally off but it kinda looks like it.

[@kurts64]

@@samulikilpinen1233 I've seen documentaries about Finland, looks like a beautiful, wild place. Are you moving into spring about now? It's early autumn here. I'm northern NSW, only a few hrs from QLD. It classed as warm- temperate. We've just had about 3 months of flooding rain, but only 18 months ago were in drought with massive bushfires! Have you started chopping yet?

[@KevinsDisobedience]

So Stubs and what’s the tree Dodgers name?

[@kurts64]

Yeah stubby the crazy water eating dog. He's a border collie/staffy. Tucker, the black pup is a kelpie/ coolie. Wife calls em the fur babies

[@skinnybearthedogs2654]

G'day Kurt, I'm looking for a solid knive as companion for woody works and I was curious about yours, do you mind telling me what it is ?

[@kurts64]

G'day mate, mine's a home made job, it's a full tang 80crv2 blade with local ironbark scales. I'd offer to make you one but my grinders been dodgy for a few months and I haven't been able to replace it. For something similar off the shelf, you could go for a Becker BK16, an LT Wright genesis, Condor mini hudson bay or Selknam, Terava Jaakaripuuko (check my spelling on that one!) or something from Pathfinder Knife Shop. Keep me posted how you go!

[@skinnybearthedogs2654]

@@kurts64 Thank you for the tips I'll check them out. It's awesome that you made your own knife, maybe I'll try too one day should be fun.

[@kurts64]

@@skinnybearthedogs2654 no worries. Be warned, it's addictive! You'll start with a design or two, next thing you know there's knives all over the house!😁

[@skinnybearthedogs2654]

@@kurts64 Pretty much what happened :D. I got myself a simple RAT-1 for EDC in the pocket and the Condor Selknam for when I go in the woods. So far I love them both. I think I'll try to replace the rat 1 plastic handle with a custom one in wood from our stack.

[@kurts64]

@@skinnybearthedogs2654 that's awesome! The Rat 1 is an absolute classic and the Condor would be pretty much bombproof! Good choices and I'd love to see some custom scales on the rat. Sweet!😁👍

[@Joey-L]

You're almost done. How long has this taken you so far? That's beautiful property btw.

[@kurts64]

G'day Joey, i was half done by end of january but since then we've had crazy rain and floods, sometimes for weeks on end. Over 3 metres of rain since January. Was aiming to be finished by end of Feb, but the weather dragged it out a bit. Gunna start a second cord soon! Thanks mate