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Even though this is only an hour outside of Tucson which resides in the sonoran desert, Mount Lemmon benefits from a rain shadow effect that dumps rain on it, enough that it's north side is a densely populated ponderosa pine forest that would be at home in california or washington.
There were some gorgeous fallen tree's with thick and pitchy heart pine, almost translucent and sounding like ceramic when you chopped on it:
It made for really awesome small-stove fire wood, burning consistently for a long time
You could watch the sap boil out of it and roll down the sticks
One of the benefits of the TTKZ is it's ability to baton through wood without tilting. It takes less effort to keep it going straight than I've experienced with the basic 11.
and for breaking down wood into manageable lengths:
this
plus this
equals this, with less effort than chopping all the way through
BUGZ
The wood I was chopping on was pretty rediculous, and I forgot to bring gloves for my city-folk-hands. I am positive that I would have gotten these whether I was using the TTKZ, B11 or an axe.
This however is a TTKZ specific blister, which I'm going to remedy by really smoothing out the machined edges:
and this is me being stupid and continueing to chopp super hard seasoned ponderosa pine on the second day without gloves:
CAMO!!
I got to build a fire in the rain which was fun. It consisted of about 300 dry pine cones and some lighter fluid.
next to an ominous dead standing pine full of ENORMOUS crows
My friend who supplied the transportation parked in an idea dry-wood spot, shrouded by a tree and at the spine of a small hill
and I got to dress to the 9's with edges all over the place. good ol' car camping.
There were some gorgeous fallen tree's with thick and pitchy heart pine, almost translucent and sounding like ceramic when you chopped on it:
It made for really awesome small-stove fire wood, burning consistently for a long time
You could watch the sap boil out of it and roll down the sticks
One of the benefits of the TTKZ is it's ability to baton through wood without tilting. It takes less effort to keep it going straight than I've experienced with the basic 11.
and for breaking down wood into manageable lengths:
this
plus this
equals this, with less effort than chopping all the way through
BUGZ
The wood I was chopping on was pretty rediculous, and I forgot to bring gloves for my city-folk-hands. I am positive that I would have gotten these whether I was using the TTKZ, B11 or an axe.
This however is a TTKZ specific blister, which I'm going to remedy by really smoothing out the machined edges:
and this is me being stupid and continueing to chopp super hard seasoned ponderosa pine on the second day without gloves:
CAMO!!
I got to build a fire in the rain which was fun. It consisted of about 300 dry pine cones and some lighter fluid.
next to an ominous dead standing pine full of ENORMOUS crows
My friend who supplied the transportation parked in an idea dry-wood spot, shrouded by a tree and at the spine of a small hill
and I got to dress to the 9's with edges all over the place. good ol' car camping.
Working in the rain and chopping wood is one of the main reasons I prefer to use bare hands ... skin contact is the best way to know when something is going to slip ... and as you say once you smooth the grips so they don't raise hot spots you should be great to go again :thumbup:
