Renaissance Timber LLC

Yes I hew beams. Yes it is only with an axe. Yes it is fun for me. Yes I make a living doing this. Thanks for attending my TED talk. 🪓 🪵

If you read Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road in that order, it's like the life cycle of civilization: its bloody birth out of chaos, its violent decline, and its apocalyptic death in flames. I think that's why I found The Road so special. It's characteristically bleak and pessimistic McCarthy, but there is a kernel of superhuman hope at its heart that makes it one of the darkest things I have ever read, but also the most tender. "He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke."

@Joseph_Fasano_ Take care of yourself, my friend. Husband your own flame so that you may light more candles in this dark world.

Friends, if you're familiar with my work, you know what I try to do every day in these spaces. My doctors tell me I'm on the edge of mental and physical exhaustion, so I have to rest. I have my son, my faith, my poetry, and my belief in you. I'll return soon. xo

@DominoRxxx That’s exactly what I paid today, too.

Getting gas for $3.69 now

@froggyfrog9000 Not in Maine they won’t 😜

@TimberLlc Theyll hear your chainsawing all the time and call the council and or cops on you.

You can just make things out of trees. No one will stop you. There are no shipping channels between you and the forest next door. Build something beautiful and set your world aright. 🪓 🪵

Anne Applebaum nails it:

@Ruesavatar @justalexoki This is the most accurate thing I’ve seen today 🌱

@justalexoki Start a garden, buy seeds and plants, yay they arrive, now put them in the ground, more anticipation yay yay yay, now they grow! And bloom! And whoa now fruit! Yay yay yay endless yaaay

bought something for myself and it made me so happy waiting for it and finally getting it but now that i just have it i don't feel so much anymore. what is going on how do you fix this

@yolanda_lynner Thank you! It’s a pine trencher bowl that I made for a conference center. Sold it for $500 several years ago.

@TimberLlc Oh. My. Goodness. My goodness!! Love all of it. That ceiling🤩 Wood, stone & metal, all the things. Especially made here in the U.S. 😆 What is the looong dough bowl made of & what would it cost if you sold one like it?

I still see many Western military experts misunderstanding how Ukrainians’ employment of drones makes them so lethal in combat. Ukrainians don’t just have a drone guy in every platoon, and they don’t treat drones as discrete weapons. They have dedicated drone battalions that field a range of drones of varying functions, creating low altitude, ‘air littoral’ stacks analogous to the manned aircraft stacks the USAF flew in Afghanistan & Iraq. These drone warfare units comprise an architecture of systems that complement each other. And it’s the interplay between these systems that delivers effects to ground forces that were previously out of reach without air superiority.

@KPY1134 My town lets me hand hew fallen trees in the forest for free as long as I do it by hand and haul it out by hand. Obviously folks need to follow local regulations.

@TimberLlc Log harvesting permits

@Irmenberga @FifiOink I usually use cherry or ash but this was pine.

@TimberLlc @FifiOink In my mind I'm seeing it in the middle of the forest surrounded by vikings and fauns feasting on huge turkey legs like a scene in the lion the witch & the wardrobe🤣if you don't mind me asking what tree did you use pine is a good price here but I guess it might taste up the food?

@FifiOink look at the last one so beautiful I'm just not sure if it's a kitchen sink or a birdbath but either way I love it 😁

@Irmenberga @FifiOink Ha! This was for a conference center to use as a centerpiece 😜

@TimberLlc @FifiOink Like, for humans? To eat slices of posh ham and cheese out of? The BIGGEST sharing platter IN THE WORLD I bloody LOVE it once its loaded up you're gonna need two little urchins to carry it into the dining hall or maybe giant tortoises that's how Louis 14th would have done it 💡🤣

@GillickNicholas So awesome 😊

@TimberLlc This has totally inspired me. I went out and bought a hewing axe.

@tjcapaldi Most common sizes in my region are 6x6, 6x8, 7x7, 8x8, and sometimes 8x10. Also 12x12 carrying beams.

@TimberLlc Is there a standard size for timbers? Or at least a most common size? (Not considering lengths here)

@GillickNicholas 💪🏼👊🏻

All men and women, especially Christians, are called to fix their gaze on those who suffer, on the pain of the lonely, and on those who are emarginated for various reasons, for without them we cannot build a just society. Only together can we build communities of solidarity capable of caring for everyone, in which wellbeing and peace can flourish for the benefit of all. Caring for the humanity of others helps us to live our own lives to the full.

@rossin2 I love this so much 👊🏻

@TimberLlc Buddy and I hard at work yesterday planting chestnut trees we grew from seed to provide resources for the future 👍

Btw, I was in writing and communications before I picked up an axe. I literally had NO IDEA how to do anything. But you can watch YouTube videos and read books and try new things and get better every day.

@MadParticipant @monsterhunter45 Not to discourage them—but to go into farming with eyes wide open. It’s not an idyll. It’s hard, relentless work that takes tremendous discipline. The farmers I know who are successful have mastered marketing and business principles, in addition to loving their land and animals.

@monsterhunter45 @TimberLlc I mean… you’re right but it’s not something I’d feel great about discouraging young people from.

Yeah, I know this is engagement bait bullshit from a European with no clue, but I see this kinda RETURN TO FARM post on X all the time, and it's always some idylic dreamscape of rural niceness, which makes it really fucking obvious to all of us who come from farming backgrounds that these people have zero fucking clue, and would probably end up wrapped around an auger on their first day. News flash. Farming is HARD. What these people are imagining is rural living on a big plot of land, where they've got income from something else, and maybe a couple of animals to keep down the grass and a little garden on the side. That's what I do now that I'm a rich guy. It's pretty awesome. I also know that if I had to make a living off this land I could probably do it (because unlike these weenies, I know how) but I don't want to, because it would absolutely fucking suck. Because in reality making a living off being a farmer is brutal. It's nonstop backbreaking labor where everything that can go wrong, will. And it will go wrong at absolutely the worst possible time. (especially if cows are involved!) Modern squishy internet people do not even sorta comprehend how hard farming is. I worked on dairy farms. I can't speak for the dirt farmers but I'm sure they've got their own set of wacky nonsense they get to put up with. It is LONG hours. I once did a stint opening up a new dairy where I worked 72 hours straight, with a couple of thirty minute naps in a truck or on the barn floor snuck in. There's nothing quite as fun as dealing with fifteen hundred pound animals and dangerous heavy equipment when you're so tired you're starting to see things that aren't there. Oh, and you'd better get real comfortable with blood, shit, piss, and death. Dealing with lots of farm animals is not for the squeamish. They're going to get sick, get injured, get stuck in infuriating and mysterious ways, and die stupidly on you. Every kind of livestock has got its peculiar way of being a pain in the ass. Cows are loveable, curious, stupid, and sometimes homicidal. I've been kicked, trampled, hooked, and smashed into/through fences. These sheltered idiot city people say crap like "go buy a farm" having zero comprehension of how much good farmland costs, or the insane costs of equipment, or livestock involved. If they saw what a good tractor cost they'd shit themselves. "Buy land"... Have you priced land? Oh, you can still buy cheap land, but it's usually cheap for a reason. As in you can't farm it, or it doesn't have water, or it's a nightmare hellscape of windy death. So farming is expensive to get into, hard to make a profit at, and insanely difficult the entire time. Oh yeah, and just when you think you've got it figured out, the government will absolutely fuck with you, because it's also super regulated. Yay. "skip the degree"... Lady, I got into college on an ag scholarship, and started out as an ag science major. Successful farmers are educated because this shit is complicated. (I then changed majors and got an accounting degree so I wouldn't have to pull calves at 3:00 AM, a decision which I have not regretted) These fuckers think farming is just strolling around in a sun dress picking wild flowers or some shit. Oh hell no. Farmers farm because they want to, and the juice is worth the squeeze for them.