[Stoves] Biomass briquetting tangents

icecool icecool at qanet.gm
Thu Aug 10 10:06:21 CDT 2017


It's slightly off topic but I just felt I need to share this.

 

A year ago I needed a hernia operation and my doctor prescribed 3 weeks of
light duty. As I always found it hard to just sit with idle hands I started
fiddling with some of our sawdust and paper briquettes and wood hanging
around the compound. One year on and we are now at the stage where we want
to put an exhibition together - together with other wood carvings using
re-purposed waste wood - to be used to raise awareness, show the beauty of
wood and hopefully raise some cash to help us in our work. Maybe this can
act as inspiration to someone - wood is not only for burning!

 

Title: 3 - 2 - 1 - Thunk. Human tenacity and folly. Try and try again (hard
to see from this angle, but the guy who just got launched is sticking in the
boot, head first)

Materials: Briqettes, Mimosa root for the steps, wooden beads and
matchsticks, base cut from an old diseased shade tree.

 

3-2-1 thunk.jpg

 

Title: Hey man - Walk the Talk! Speaks for himself and totally cracks me up.

Materials: Briquettes for the boots, bits of Mimosa, shaped and glued
together, base as above.

 

walk1.jpg

 

Title: Building Bridges. The meeting of "black" and "white" across the chasm
- no matter how hard it is sometimes, it's always worth the risk to TRY!

Materials: Briquettes with embedded wire, mounted on a repurposed Umbrella
Tree plank and populated by  "beadheads" meeting on a rickety bridge made
from wire and Mimosa slivers.

 

bridge2.jpg

 

Title: Heads or Tales. This one just shows the beauty of natural wood.

Materials: A mimosa chunk cut to reveal the patterns inside, with a
noticeable head...mounted on a piece of  repurposed redwood roof beam.

 

16939681_10154847687182254_3846140343269870221_n.jpg

 

George from the ever shrinking jungle!

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