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Great video series! Thanks for posting it. To respond to ecampbell, I think what you typically buy as "charcoal" today is actually a pressed brickette made from powdered charred wood.

Wow. never saw this until it got bumped. Really great detective work.

I'm kind of taken with the idea of a model furnace. I think it would make an excellent documentary subject. Costs shouldn't be extravagant. The toughest item on the materials list would probably be the refractory lining. The hardest work would probably be digging and crushing the ore. Charcoal...

You know them?

I've been reading Arthur Pierce's "Iron in the Pines" and "Family Empire in Jersey Iron" over the last few days, and was wondering if anyone makes iron in the old way? Do they do that at Batsto, by way of demonstration? Actually the original idea was to build a small furnace, dig some ore...

Welcome to the forums, Chris. A good part of the fun of exploring the pines begins with getting to know the people here, learning some of the old stories, and starting to put the pieces together. The signs and signals left behind in some of these old locales are usually fragmentary and...

So many great shots, Ben. Thanks for the views. The very first one - the sweet little beige coupe - looks like an Auburn. Lol at "boring vette photo." I agree it's no gullwing merc.

I'm a non-practicing born Catholic, and I married a Catholic girl, in a Catholic church, and I got to do the whole pre-cana thing. The priest gave me the ebil eye the whole time. But I still consider that time better spent than the several weeks I spent in a basement room with a dozen other...

Was that Werner's brother?

I don't think I have ever had a religious experience, but there are some sections of the pines that I really enjoy visiting.

You make good points, German. I didn't know that about white cedar, but it makes sense.

That is a little surprising; the club location more than the villa. I would have placed the villa a little closer to the road, and like Ben I'm surprised not to see more evidence in the older aerials.

I'm in the same frame of mind as Boyd, and was going to post something similar before the db crash. His message prompted me to get back to it. I'm just congenitally mistrustful of people who make their living harvesting natural resources, when it comes to their advice on how to best manage...

Haha, that's a great idea. You need to get someone with an old Ford flatbed and ride up on that.

I guess nothing a human would consider worthwhile lasts for long around other humans.

Ben reported in the Site News forum that there was a database crash yesterday. I have noticed posts missing in other treads, so I think some loss was probably unavoidable. We'll just have to yak it up and refill :).

I saw that one yesterday when it happened, and thought "Oh man, that doesn't look good." I was just getting ready to post a reply on the sawmill thread. Clicked a link to look at some other page on the forum and saw the error come back. Then I noticed that I could still pull the front page, but...

I smell cover-up!

Yeah, there are a lot of possible answers. He may have been too injured to free himself, in which case I imagine he would have passed out pretty quickly in that position. This reminds me of a story from a few years back where the frozen remains of an airman missing since 1945 were found on a...

That is amazing and very eerie. Poor guy, I hope he died before he got caught in that tree.