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Random Stuff – Portuguese Fireplace, Digging, Mostly, Storm Eunice & the Giant Spoon

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Random Stuff – Portuguese Fireplace, Digging, Mostly, Storm Eunice & the Giant Spoon

The usual monthly upload of random bits that didn’t make it into their own videos.

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  1. I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this/or if it was a typo, but at 01:30, I think it was from WW1 and not WW2. Love these videos and keep up the hard work!

  2. The fireplace is really interesting. Not too far from me in Louisiana there's a number of old structures left over from the war that served as training facilities, and you will randomly stumble across them as you make your way through the woods in the most unexpected places. That area also provided quite a bit of the timber used for the war effort. Unfortunately they cut down whatever was left of the old growth longleaf pine during that time, and it was later replaced with loblolly and other pine species. However, the forest service is doing an admirable job of restoring it to longleaf, and I hope that by the end of my lifetime I get to see stands of longleaf over 30" in diameter like the old growth would have been.

  3. I have seen these in Ohio. They are sometimes found near lakes and ponds and are used by ice skaters in the wintertime. Probably not the explanation for yours…….

  4. My local supermarket has been selling large bags of reduced produce and I've been told it's a fairly common practice. Well I've been buying one every time I go, pretty much regardless of what it contains as a challenge to see what I can make with such a bag. I was wondering if your local supermarket does something similar and if that might be a good video series idea? A reduced produce challenge if you would.

  5. I'm loving these random bits videos. Eva is digging and it sounds like she's saying; I'm ready, throw it, throw it now. And the spoon carving was pure inspiration. Too bad I'm rubbish at carving wood. Thanks for sharing this video with us.

  6. This… spoon, is starting to look more and more like a spitar or a gitoon. A most useful musical instrument mostly known in the underground circles of medieval bard-cooks. Very few speciment have survived the ages… I might be mistaking.

  7. Mr Michael Shrimp! I'd like to thank you, because you introduced me to carving. I remember you had a video up years ago about a spoon carving and that got my curiosity up. Fast forward today I've been carving for about 2 years now, and have made at least 3 dozen spoons, sold some and gifted away some. I've also been carving small figures, toys, got into whittling, and even made a kuksa. Carving has been a godsend for me as i live in an abusive household and having something relaxing that just takes me far away is priceless. And it's all thanks to you! So from the bottom of my heart, thank you for changing my life and introduce me something that i absolute adore. If we ever meet, ales on me!

    Ps: t is ironic me recommending a tool to my muse, but i think you'll love it. For carving the depressions, try the flexcut kn26. I started out with those terrible half circle gouges and it's been a pain. But ever since I got the kn26 it's been smooth sailing and it's a quality tool.

  8. Feeling a bit sad, I have now caught up with all your videos. I really enjoyed binge watching a few of your videos at a time, especially during lock down and then after I had a busy day. Therefore watching this video is a bit bitter sweet.

  9. If someone had told me when I was a teenager that I would watch a man carve a giant spoon while cooking, I would have denied it completely. Yet here I am at 52 and quite enjoying watching just that!

  10. it reminds me of ruins we have in california of old mining towns, where the only thing that wont eventually rot is the fireplace and chimney, so you'll just see little chimney stacks standing by them selves amongst some yucca trees in the desert as you pass along the highway

  11. why do you make spoons as often as you do? actually, the answer to that is presumably something like "I enjoy it", so, as a revised question, what about making spoons do you enjoy enough to do this same thing as often as you do?

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