Somewhat inconvenient but fun thought experiment

The branches I wanna work with are too long and needs too much material removed for drill to be a realist tool. I could try it out just to confirm that theory, I guess.

Had no idea those were a thing, I’ll be reading up on them, thanks!

This is a new tool to me, I might look to nab a used one off market place or something. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yeah I’ve been meaning to get a chisel set, of the few projects I did I certainly had a few moments where I thought a chisel would be handy.

Indeed, I think splitting the branch will be mandatory to get some carving done.

I’m not sure what would be the best tool to do the carving, however. I’m considering getting some wood scissors, because it’s not immediately obvious to me which power tool could carve out material with a nice mix of accuracy and efficiency.

Hey chad, I hadn’t heard of CachyOS until you brought it up, good on you for finding an OS that matches your needs and going for it

I’m on good ol’ Arch Linux with plasma KDE

I swapped from Windows 10 specifically because I didn’t want to be in the Windows 11 and forward environment. (I use Arch btw)

I really don’t regret it, the set up was really painful but once that was done, the KDE had so many good features that I immediately felt at home. I’m floored by how good Proton/Steam is at handling games, I don’t think I’ve had to skip on any game due to my OS (so far).

They are a sovereign country, a sovereign country that stated red lines in regard to their territorial security. The West knowingly provoked Russia by posturing that Ukraine would join NATO.

This is exactly the same reaction the US would have if the scenario was flipped (as stated in the Monroe doctrine). It is hugely hypocritical of the previous administration to pretend that Russia is in the wrong for wanting to secure their border.

Ukraine is torpedo’ing their own ceasefire offer by doing an indiscriminate drone attack (a war crime), and the first thing you think is “buh in my brain Putin would break tuh ceasefuhre uhnyways” ?

If only the west hadn’t provoked the whole conflict.

Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

What is that quote supposed to prove or disprove? No one is implying* that Russia has a perfect scorecard for respecting international treaties.

The bigger point of this article (that seems to go over your head) is that Ukraine also has a responsibility to prevent civilian casualties, which it has neglected regularly. Furthermore, the drone bombing act seems to have been a massive indiscriminate attack, looking at the images, there’s multiple nonsensical targets such as civilians dwelling and some civilian parking lots. Whyever would any serious military target those? All this does is escalate a bloody conflict that should’ve been diplomatically settled years ago.

They committed a war crime. Take a moment to look at the photo gallery, they bombed civilian cars, civilian apartment complex, single family housing.

And they are doing this on the eve of a potential ceasefire. This is not “sad”, it’s malicious and counterproductive. This kind of attack does nothing to improve the balance of power of Ukraine, it’s essentially state terrorism.

OK so you had loads of good advice, but I’ve done a very similar clean up on a branch, and I have the cheapest option to recommend: I’ve debarked my branch with a nail.

The flat head of the nail can be used to ‘crowbar’ some pieces of bark, by leveraging the length of the nail to apply pressure. You can also use the side of the head to push off bark from knots and the side of the branch.

To finish on my projects, I had to eventually use a metal file mill + sand paper. I intend to do more projects like this so I’ll almost assuredly get some of the tools listed in here, tho.