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New York Times Article on Firewood Reality Series In Norway.: Author Lars Mytting"All About Chopping, Drying, and Stacking Wood, and the Soul of Wood Burning

Lars Mytting at his home in Elverum, Norway. His best-selling book, “Solid Wood: All About Chopping, Drying and Stacking Wood — and the Soul of Wood-Burning,” inspired a TV program about cutting, stacking and burning firewood.

By SARAH LYALL

Published: February 19, 2013

OSLO — The TV program, on the topic of firewood, consisted mostly of people in parkas chatting and chopping in the woods and then eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace. Yet no sooner had it begun, on prime time on Friday night, than the angry responses came pouring in.

“We received about 60 text messages from people complaining about the stacking in the program,” said Lars Mytting, whose best-selling book “Solid Wood: All About Chopping, Drying and Stacking Wood — and the Soul of Wood-Burning” inspired the broadcast. “Fifty percent complained that the bark was facing up, and the rest complained that the bark was facing down.”

He explained, “One thing that really divides Norway is bark.”


One thing that does not divide Norway, apparently, is its love of discussing Norwegian wood
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Firewood Hauling Pictures: Some okay scenarios, and some bad scenarios, and a nice cabover and school bus deer stand

A Semi-Truck hauling firewood could not make the turn under the load weight.

Hauls up to 5 cords

Cabover hauling logs,photo from trucktrailers.blogspot.com

Farm Show Article and Excerpt:

Sleepless nights often result in interesting creations by FARM SHOW readers like Shade Bland who dreamed up a school bus deer stand one night. It seemed like a simple solution to a friend’s desire to have a stand with room for an Army cot.
  After salvaging two old school buses from a junkyard and putting in about 100 hours of work, Bland completed the stand on a 10-ft. platform made of scrapped gas line pipe, angle iron and a ladder off a grain bin.
  Bland cut off the back end of the bus and kept two windows on each side for shooting. He boxed in the front with a piece of the remaining bus that includes three windows and trimmed over the windows with metal from the bus for molding. The front panel includes an emergency window that opens all the way for access for a smaller person to shoot through.
  Bland painted his stand in camouflage and jokes the trees on the side are so real birds try to land on them.
  His first stand has held up very well after four seasons, and Bland made seven more. He sells them for $5,000.
  “It will last a man’s lifetime – and unless a storm takes it down – his son’s lifetime,” Bland says.