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This is why i dont like these kind of studies. Clearly it does not take 60 hours to find a dead tree in the woods, break it down, and light it on fire.
by epa 3y ago
This is why i dont like these kind of studies. Clearly it does not take 60 hours to find a dead tree in the woods, break it down, and light it on fire.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoMight not be far off if you don't have very effective tools (Peking Man had simple stone tools) or you've exhausted nearby suitable wood supplies like sticks you can just pick up or trees you can tackle, so you have to travel out and drag it back. The original study estimated 10 pounds (5kg) of wood foraged, trimmed and dried per hour of labour. That sounds low with a saw and an axe (and very low with a chainsaw), but might be about right with primitive tools including travel and processing and wood stack maintenance (no tarps either).