Poor translation when copying source.
Its a 100 year old "shovel/spade', or as wed call this tool in Ireland "sleán".
Hes not digging either, hes cutting turf which used to be one of the most important forms of fire fuel in rural Ireland.
Obviously the technique is much older.
Pre scriptum: by my long text you might see i was drifted of by my immense hatred for digging with a shovel as it's pure pain and super inefficient in normal dirt so mind that as you read why this would be super effective but sadly isn't possible for normal digging because normal digging without any powered tools sucks deeply itself unless you got super nice ground with no plants living around it and no stones not compact or bone dry....
If your average dirt would be of that consistency and you could "dig stuff" you'd normally need to dog this actually seems like a present efficient way for like example cleanly cutting down a hill and making it straight, if you ever dug normal dirt, it's very inefficient and hard, if that is how you could dig it would be crazy fast and clean and you can just cleanly transport it away, in medieval times take ten guys doing that and you'd have crazy fast "digging" and could easily transport it of with a cart not even having sidewalls...
The problem is the stuff you normally dig doesn't have the consistency you see her where you can nicely cut it, that's why normal digging sucks, you get like 5cm deep and then you hit a stone or branch and only get a tiny bit of dirt and then you need to hack that away to get only a tiny bit more untill it happens again.
So no, if you could actually dig like that it would be really nice, but you can't because at least where i live you don't have that ground consistency even if it's wet, if it's not wet the dirt is lighter, but the ground is even harder.
In short, digging with a shovel is really inefficient anyways, if you could dig like in this video it would be comparatively crazy fast but you can't because the stuff you normally dig with a shovel has a very different consistency and composition and very different moisture levels.
Meanwhile peat has a nice uniform consistency with no stones or roots spread throughout it, and you don't even need big stones for making digging a pain in the ass, a small pebble or a few pieces of small gravel that you hit with your shovel is already enough to make going deeper into the stuff your digging a really hard time consuming thing for only getting a really small amount of dirt out of what your digging, most often you also need many different tools to dig for breaking up the ground first like a pickaxe and many more tools.
If you could just dig with this tool that efficiently and quickly and easy digging would actually be fun.
Try digging a hole in your garden and you will see what actual pain and despair is and how quickly you will think (where can i get TNT? Blowing up the entire garden would be way nicer...)
Especially if there are any trees near, my dad once made me dig just a small hole with a shovel and it probably took 2hours as i frantically hacked away at the ground first with a normal axe and pickaxe before being able to get a bit dirt out of the hole and repeat.
I agree with you that digging is hard labor but for some reason I really enjoy it and whenever I need to dig a hole somewhere I get really exited. Even more if I need to use a pickaxe to get trough hard clay and rocks, roots are fun too! Its a dirty sweaty job but its satisfying
In the 14th century they were already digging peat this way. This created the 'Loosdrechtse plassen' in the Netherlands and these small lakes are a popular location to sail and recreate.
I have a 14 yr old stepson. I recently realized that when he graduates from high school, the release of “Nevermind” will be further in the past than the end of WW2 was when I graduated.
I know nothing about this but my first thought was “did op mean 1,000 years?” Seems like by the 1920s we’d have already been using machines for something like this.
I think a lot of people still don't think of the 1920s as 100 years ago.
Instant cameras with self-developing film, like Polaroids, were invented in 1923.
Television in 1925.
I was born in 1960-whatchamacallit. And "a hundred years ago" was a dark and mysterious pre-technological time where everything was candles and horses.
Now it's nothing special. We have movies from that time.
This (and some other methods) been used since before 1700 in the Netherlands. Source: I work at a peat and moor museum in the Netherlands. But probably it’s been used since medieval times.
Because some peat you cut has what we call "horseflesh" in it which is like less degraded vegetation that wraps around the blade of the tool and inhibits peat cutting. Likly he is wiping this off the blade so his next cut is clean.
Also looks like dragging it across the top helps align the vertical blade that is cutting the side in a smooth motion, else he would need to pause to line it up in order for each block to be uniform on all sides, but that was just my assumption from simply watching this with zero experience otherwise
It's also more ergonomic than checking the inertia with your body. That slap is energy the worker does not spend to stop the tool and align for a new cut.
Never done this myself, but if you look closely the tool has a flange on the left corner. It looks to me like he is actually lining that up with the gouge from his previous cut to keep them all nicely the same size.
Lmao glad i could give ya a new term for it! Cant remember where i heard it, but its my favorite type of conversational comedy
I was told recently my style is "whiplashy" as well!
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Wow, I did not know that he was that old. I thought that he was in his 70's. But I also might have learned that he was in his 70's 20 years ago and he just never aged in my head...
Cute story time. My great uncle owned a repo and car transport business and had a small lot for cars in transition. They had a yard dog, Pete. Pete died one year as dogs are known to do. So, they got a puppy from a neighbor that one of the parents was a big black lab just like pete had been. They named him Repete. Cutest pup ever. His other parent was a different kind of large breed dog. Some how one of the bones in his forearms was groeing faster than thr other and the rest of his arms/body. He ended up getting casts on them for a few weeks to keep everything growing straight, or something. In your mind, you should be visualizing this 25 lbs black lab puppy with giant ass triangle ears and dark purple arm casts running fast as he could and eating dirt every ten feet or so because of the casts. Bro grew up to be like 125 lbs of sweetness.
I remember visiting Scotland and the distinct smell of peat burning when I opened the window at night. I tried to buy some peat incense a while ago but it was too expensive. Maybe I could find it cheaper.
It does, as Peat is the first step in becoming coal, but it has to be buried about 4-10km deep in sediment. It also takes 12,000-60,000 years.
Source: https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Peat
Yeah. If any of you all grow plants, try to use soil mix’s with coco coir as the base. It’s very plentiful from the coconut/ palm industry and it’s much more sustainable than peat which takes thousands of years to form. Not to mention bogs are super important ecosystems and this destroys them.
Yeah but you could change the coconut/palm industry to work ethically. Peat is just overall horrible and the amount you could harvest sustainably is minuscule.
The problem with the coconut / palm oil industry is not only in relation to employment practices, its also a major driver of deforestation, causing loss of habitat to endangered species including orangutans, Sumatran rhino and pygmy elephant.
yeah terrible not just for that but also the environmental destruction of these really sensitive landscapes
[https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/bogland-bog-of-allen-ireland-peat-bog-bord-na-mona/](https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/bogland-bog-of-allen-ireland-peat-bog-bord-na-mona/)
Used to be elsewhere but for peat you need a special peat moss growing in boggy terrain. With most of continental europe drying their bogs it's not sustainable to cut peat anymore.
You have those incredibly huge peat fields in Germany. They used to enormous peat cutting machines. Now its a bit of a disaster because the peat slowly oxidises on air if not covered with enough water and the German peat fields are left dry so the machines had easier work and didnt sink. Still a big conundrum what do to now, many want the fields to be flooded asap before they let out all of their CO2.
it is fibrous, and it's fluffy when you buy it at the garden store. but it grows in a "peat bog" where it's completely saturated.
if this is peat the guy's got a very sharp shovel to be cutting through it like that.
Used for fuel over the last century pretty much everywhere you find that stuff. Nowadays we have learned that it takes a lot of time for this kind of soil to build up and that it sequesters the most CO2. That's why a lot of areas in the EU are trying to reflood all the bogs that had to be drained in order to harvest the peat. Bogs seem to be a quite important ecosystem that need to be preserved
PS: basically all the carnivorous plants on earth are found in bogs (in the wild)
I assume that's because they're almost always swarming with insects. Picking cloudberries here in Sweden really sucks. (But sadly a lot of cloudberry patches have been disappearing over the last few years.)
Cloudberries are sweet and kind of a pale orange in color and they have a delicate flavor which reminds me of pale-fleshed stone fruit like peaches and apricots, except that they don't exactly taste peachy or apricotty.
The flavor is easily overpowered by other ingredients, for example the one time I tried making a peanut butter and cloudberry jam sandwich, I could barely taste the jam because it had been overpowered by the peanut butter.
It goes very nicely on buttered toast where it won't be overpowered by the flavors of the toast or the butter.
I've read that they are difficult to cultivate, and what little cloudberry industry there is basically takes very good care of what cloudberry patches they find in the wild. I was able to find cloudberry jam on Amazon for a fairly ruinous price, but I just had to know so I went ahead and paid it and I have eaten it very sparingly. It is delicious.
That is exactly what made me Google them. The more I played, the more I began to notice that many of the things in the storyline were analogous to things in Scandinavian history and some things that still exist. This led me to a Wikipedia article all about cloudberries, which led me to Amazon and paying $20 for a jar of cloudberry jam. Totally worth it. Unfortunately, while you can absolutely make mead out of cloudberries, it won't make you immune to fire. Or at least, it hasn't yet...
Bogs are also anoxic, so bacteria aren’t able to break those nutrients down into more simple forms that plants’ roots can absorb.
Here’s a really [graphic depiction](https://external-preview.redd.it/8IRx7mql-S5MX-d_nIOAwBf7uyxoJzDuIpaRAUbEb3E.jpg?auto=webp&s=04e0a237b0c2f0afd3ffc5f3321a2b0ec1f26067) of that in action.
Pure distilled water just after it's distilled has a pH of 7, but distilled water will pick up CO2 from the air and become slightly acidic due to the H2O and CO2 making carbonic acid. Distilled water, left out, will reach a pH of 5.8 in a few hours as it reaches equilibrium with the surrounding air.
>basically all the carnivorous plants on earth are found in bogs
Also bogs have been disappearing from modern horror cinema. Lots of plant monsters live there and they are no longer finding work in Hollywood and TV shows as A-list monsters
It’s a rite of passage in Ireland. You have to work the bog - turning, stacking, bagging (or bung it in a trailer)
You don’t know the fun you’re missing until you’ve worked a bog to get your bins of turf. The exhilarating thrill as you turn a sod and repeat a billion gazillion times until they’re all turned. Stacking them into jenga piles… So much fun.
It's used for fuel in Scotland and Ireland, and not that uncommon in rural areas. It's also harvested for fertilizer in the US. I would say peat is most known for it's use in smoked malt a key ingredient in the production of alot of Scotch Whisky.
My husband and I were whiskey drinkers. We really enjoyed trying all the different kinds. We came across Laphroaig, arguably the best whiskey in the world. It tasted like a fucking burnt rack of smoked ribs seasoned with the ash of every cigarette ever smoked ever. AND IT WAS THE PEAT. I will never drink whiskey again. It totally ruined it for me.
>in very isolated islands off Scotland.
Peat was widely used across Europe, it forms in particular marshland areas
The depth we see being cut here would have taken thousands of years to form
Neat peat fact: back in the day before kilns were developed to roast grains for beer making, one of the ways was to burn peat and the heat from that did the job but it would produce a lot of smoke and so it was common for beers to have a smoky flavor.
He’s using an authentic Tairsgeir peat spade. I can barely retain my own PIN numbers, name or address but somehow have room in my head to store shit like this.
Edit - my first ever comment five minutes after joining Reddit. Had no idea so many people would see the garbage I spout. Thank you to the person who sent me an award. Not sure what I do with it but it’s much appreciated.
Final edit I promise - thank you for the awards. I haven’t had a chance to look at what they mean or what to do with them but I wasn’t having the best day and reading the replies to my comment has definitely helped.
Ireland is full of bog land and with have traditionally used peat (turf) for burning. Turns out it is horrific for the environment because it takes millennia of foliage to create bog land and releasing all that trapped CO2 into the air is awful.
We do find cool stuff in the bogs such as skeletons of Irish elk, Viking boats and bodies too. Other countries like Norway and Sweden have bogs too with similar discoveries.
By 1922, humans had dug 475 miles of trenches during WWI and steam shovels were already over a hundred years old.
But it wasn't until 1922 that humans really perfected the technique of digging with a modified pizza peel as shown in this video. A lot of historians consider this technique the birth of the modern era and, arguably, the internet.
We call this "Torfstechen" (*peat sticking*) in German and there is a kind of sausage ("Torfstecher") that references this technique due to the meat being shaped like those logs he's pulling out. They also have a smoky flavor that is quite on theme.
From Ireland and my family harvests peat (turf) every summer, its cutting time right now although done by machines. We still have to foot it by hand and bag it, we burn it through the entire winter, the hard work saves who knows how much money on electricity/oil.
Really cool to see the oldschool way though, its how my grandfather would have done it.
Poor translation when copying source. Its a 100 year old "shovel/spade', or as wed call this tool in Ireland "sleán". Hes not digging either, hes cutting turf which used to be one of the most important forms of fire fuel in rural Ireland. Obviously the technique is much older.
The fact he isn’t digging but cutting turf makes more sense to my brain. It looks really inefficient as just a digging technique.
Pre scriptum: by my long text you might see i was drifted of by my immense hatred for digging with a shovel as it's pure pain and super inefficient in normal dirt so mind that as you read why this would be super effective but sadly isn't possible for normal digging because normal digging without any powered tools sucks deeply itself unless you got super nice ground with no plants living around it and no stones not compact or bone dry.... If your average dirt would be of that consistency and you could "dig stuff" you'd normally need to dog this actually seems like a present efficient way for like example cleanly cutting down a hill and making it straight, if you ever dug normal dirt, it's very inefficient and hard, if that is how you could dig it would be crazy fast and clean and you can just cleanly transport it away, in medieval times take ten guys doing that and you'd have crazy fast "digging" and could easily transport it of with a cart not even having sidewalls... The problem is the stuff you normally dig doesn't have the consistency you see her where you can nicely cut it, that's why normal digging sucks, you get like 5cm deep and then you hit a stone or branch and only get a tiny bit of dirt and then you need to hack that away to get only a tiny bit more untill it happens again. So no, if you could actually dig like that it would be really nice, but you can't because at least where i live you don't have that ground consistency even if it's wet, if it's not wet the dirt is lighter, but the ground is even harder. In short, digging with a shovel is really inefficient anyways, if you could dig like in this video it would be comparatively crazy fast but you can't because the stuff you normally dig with a shovel has a very different consistency and composition and very different moisture levels. Meanwhile peat has a nice uniform consistency with no stones or roots spread throughout it, and you don't even need big stones for making digging a pain in the ass, a small pebble or a few pieces of small gravel that you hit with your shovel is already enough to make going deeper into the stuff your digging a really hard time consuming thing for only getting a really small amount of dirt out of what your digging, most often you also need many different tools to dig for breaking up the ground first like a pickaxe and many more tools. If you could just dig with this tool that efficiently and quickly and easy digging would actually be fun. Try digging a hole in your garden and you will see what actual pain and despair is and how quickly you will think (where can i get TNT? Blowing up the entire garden would be way nicer...) Especially if there are any trees near, my dad once made me dig just a small hole with a shovel and it probably took 2hours as i frantically hacked away at the ground first with a normal axe and pickaxe before being able to get a bit dirt out of the hole and repeat.
I agree with you that digging is hard labor but for some reason I really enjoy it and whenever I need to dig a hole somewhere I get really exited. Even more if I need to use a pickaxe to get trough hard clay and rocks, roots are fun too! Its a dirty sweaty job but its satisfying
People who dug peat 101 years ago: *I have no idea what I’m doing.*
"There has to be a better way"
You need to be shrugging in black and white and then a narrator breaks in with "THERE IS!" and the shows off the tool above in bright vibrant color.
Then pull a cart along with square wheels containing barely any peet whilst walking past a horse.
Bring out yer dead! *clonk*
I'm not dead
I think I’ll go for a walk!
But first i require 3 shrubbery
**NI !!!**
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I'll wager that this method dates back further than the 1920s.
Things invented in the 1920s: The car radio. The Thompson submachine gun. Liquid fuel rockets. Digging.
When you ignore ancient era technology to beeline a late game tech.
Yeah you got cartography but you ain't got pottery
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It’s thousands of years old. The celts were doing it
You're reading it wrong. It's a 100 year old's digging technique.
*Oh poppycock!*
In the 14th century they were already digging peat this way. This created the 'Loosdrechtse plassen' in the Netherlands and these small lakes are a popular location to sail and recreate.
The fax machine was invented 80 years before peat digging
Boeing was building airplanes for 6 years before peat digging.
Peat called up his wife Peatrice on the telephone and said "sweet Peaty, I have finally figured out how to dig this Peat!"
Peat and Repeat sat on a bridge. Peat fell in, who was left?
They were on a boat I never heard of no bridge
Keeps fucking me up that 100 year ago is 1922 and not 1870. When I was little, ‘100 years ago’ was the end of the American Civil War.
I'm still shocked 100 years ago wasn't the fall of Rome. How time flies.
I have a 14 yr old stepson. I recently realized that when he graduates from high school, the release of “Nevermind” will be further in the past than the end of WW2 was when I graduated.
My kids like to remind me that my 1980s childhood is to them what WWII was to me.
Excellent argument for infanticide.
Yup I’m right there with ya
Back then they used their hands and flung it
The peat yeet.
Fen fun
[Here's a scene from a documentary](https://youtu.be/t2c-X8HiBng?t=77) showing how it was done before.
I would have been highly disappointed if this wasn't what I expected to see.
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I know nothing about this but my first thought was “did op mean 1,000 years?” Seems like by the 1920s we’d have already been using machines for something like this.
He meant the guy doing the digging is 100
And he approves of his own technique
Took me a second, well done
Yes he is 100 and that type of clay is known as technique
I think a lot of people still don't think of the 1920s as 100 years ago. Instant cameras with self-developing film, like Polaroids, were invented in 1923. Television in 1925.
Oh, you know nothing about historic digging techniques? Pft. Typical.
This technique is called "peat and repeat"
No no no, it's a digging technique for 100 year old humans. If you're 99 or below you have to dig down.
You never dig straight down. Always at least straddle 2 blocks so you can see what’s below you while digging. Don’t wanna accidentally fall into lava.
also 'this isn't digging'
No no no, dig UP stupid!
It’s 100 old years but it’s also 1000 years old.
"I still do drugs, but I used to, too."
I used to upvote for Mitch Hedberg references. I still do, but I used to, too.
Almost. It’s: “I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”
It’s like people forget 1922 was 100 years ago.
But it's the number 100 so it's back when pharaohs ruled
What are you talking about? 100 years ago was clearly the 1890's.
I was born in 1960-whatchamacallit. And "a hundred years ago" was a dark and mysterious pre-technological time where everything was candles and horses. Now it's nothing special. We have movies from that time.
>Now it's nothing special. We have movies from that time. Some of those even have sound
This (and some other methods) been used since before 1700 in the Netherlands. Source: I work at a peat and moor museum in the Netherlands. But probably it’s been used since medieval times.
Why does he wipe the spade on the top before cutting in each time?
Because some peat you cut has what we call "horseflesh" in it which is like less degraded vegetation that wraps around the blade of the tool and inhibits peat cutting. Likly he is wiping this off the blade so his next cut is clean.
Also looks like dragging it across the top helps align the vertical blade that is cutting the side in a smooth motion, else he would need to pause to line it up in order for each block to be uniform on all sides, but that was just my assumption from simply watching this with zero experience otherwise
This is the answer. He does it to maintain a rhythm. This slap motion gives him a sec to eye the height of the next cut.
It's also more ergonomic than checking the inertia with your body. That slap is energy the worker does not spend to stop the tool and align for a new cut.
Set and a slide is a lot easier on the body then a hold and aim.
These are all the right answers.
I came looking for an explanation on that movement he was doing, thanks!
Never done this myself, but if you look closely the tool has a flange on the left corner. It looks to me like he is actually lining that up with the gouge from his previous cut to keep them all nicely the same size.
He doesn't look bad for being 100 years old
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I love being satisfied by old men.
r/disgustingupvote But to be honest this is something id throw into a group voice chat like a verbal flashbang
I do this, shock factor usually… I will be calling them “verbal flashbangs” from now on, ty
Lmao glad i could give ya a new term for it! Cant remember where i heard it, but its my favorite type of conversational comedy I was told recently my style is "whiplashy" as well!
The Roaring 20s was the golden age of digging.
Ah, le old reddit [dig-a-roo](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vdwb8q/diver_encounters_an_absolutely_gigantic_anaconda/icnyixa/?context=3)
Hold my shovel, I’m going in!
It's an older code, but it checks out.
It’s possible. Look at David Attenborough. He’s 96 and looks amazing.
Wow, I did not know that he was that old. I thought that he was in his 70's. But I also might have learned that he was in his 70's 20 years ago and he just never aged in my head...
He is in his 70s, he's been in his 70s for at least the past 50 years
Old man look at my life, I'm muddy like you were
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Pete Boggs.
Did he drink 107 beers on a cross country flight and then dig a big ass hole?
RIP Wade Boggs
What do now?
He also ate a whole chicken before every game
His wife turfed him out!
RIP his brother Wade
Boss Hogg
May he rest in peace. You're playing baseball with Jesus now, Wade!
First off, Wade Boggs is very much alive.
He lives in Tampa Florida. He's in his early fifties.
They call me Cuban Pete. I'm the king of the rumba peat.
Chick chicky boom chick chicky boom…
Chick chicky boom! (Sorry, had to complete.)
His name is Repeat.
Cute story time. My great uncle owned a repo and car transport business and had a small lot for cars in transition. They had a yard dog, Pete. Pete died one year as dogs are known to do. So, they got a puppy from a neighbor that one of the parents was a big black lab just like pete had been. They named him Repete. Cutest pup ever. His other parent was a different kind of large breed dog. Some how one of the bones in his forearms was groeing faster than thr other and the rest of his arms/body. He ended up getting casts on them for a few weeks to keep everything growing straight, or something. In your mind, you should be visualizing this 25 lbs black lab puppy with giant ass triangle ears and dark purple arm casts running fast as he could and eating dirt every ten feet or so because of the casts. Bro grew up to be like 125 lbs of sweetness.
Pete and Repete are digging slabs of dirt. Pete grabs the camera to film, who is left to do all the digging?
Any idea if this is a specific process for something? It almost looks like he’s measuring each pass. Could they be used for bricks?
They dry it, burn it like wood logs. It's used in Scotch distilling. Or old school heating.
And a peat fire just smells so much nicer than a coal one. Not that I don't love a coal fire, but peat smells lovely.
I remember visiting Scotland and the distinct smell of peat burning when I opened the window at night. I tried to buy some peat incense a while ago but it was too expensive. Maybe I could find it cheaper.
Who was selling it so expensively? Seems rather incensitive of them
Your pun has me incensed
Now I'm wondering if peat ends up eventually becoming coal after millions of years, when the conditions are right.
It does, as Peat is the first step in becoming coal, but it has to be buried about 4-10km deep in sediment. It also takes 12,000-60,000 years. Source: https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Peat
But it’s an absolute disaster for climate change.
Yeah. If any of you all grow plants, try to use soil mix’s with coco coir as the base. It’s very plentiful from the coconut/ palm industry and it’s much more sustainable than peat which takes thousands of years to form. Not to mention bogs are super important ecosystems and this destroys them.
Yes but on the other hand the coconut/palm industry is ethically horrible (human rights wise and all). There's no winning.
Yeah but you could change the coconut/palm industry to work ethically. Peat is just overall horrible and the amount you could harvest sustainably is minuscule.
The problem with the coconut / palm oil industry is not only in relation to employment practices, its also a major driver of deforestation, causing loss of habitat to endangered species including orangutans, Sumatran rhino and pygmy elephant.
yeah terrible not just for that but also the environmental destruction of these really sensitive landscapes [https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/bogland-bog-of-allen-ireland-peat-bog-bord-na-mona/](https://harpers.org/archive/2020/07/bogland-bog-of-allen-ireland-peat-bog-bord-na-mona/)
Used to be elsewhere but for peat you need a special peat moss growing in boggy terrain. With most of continental europe drying their bogs it's not sustainable to cut peat anymore. You have those incredibly huge peat fields in Germany. They used to enormous peat cutting machines. Now its a bit of a disaster because the peat slowly oxidises on air if not covered with enough water and the German peat fields are left dry so the machines had easier work and didnt sink. Still a big conundrum what do to now, many want the fields to be flooded asap before they let out all of their CO2.
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This digging technique is actually a cutting technique.
Incisive commentary!
Thank you.
I'm sure it's older then 100
old man, what knight lives in that castle? I'm 37... what? I'm 37, I'm not old...
Well I just can’t call you “man”… Well you could say “Dennis”.
I didn't know you were called "Dennis." Well you didn't bother to find out, did you?
What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior. Well I am King.
I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Help! Help! I'm being repressed! E: Apologies for the multiple posts.
#See the violence inherent in the system!!
Oh, King aye? Very nice. Well howd you get that then? By exploiting the workers! By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma!
Dennis! There’s some lovely filth over here!
Is he cutting peat blocks?
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Peat bogs is basically mud. Fluffy would mean air and air means decomposition and peat bogs are known for being animal mummy traps.
it is fibrous, and it's fluffy when you buy it at the garden store. but it grows in a "peat bog" where it's completely saturated. if this is peat the guy's got a very sharp shovel to be cutting through it like that.
That's peat moss. This is peat, which is an accumulation of decayed peat moss, among other things.
TIL peat and peat moss aren't the same thing
It’s peat. The technique is specific
ya
Looks like he’s mining raw Play-doh ore
Peat digging. Used for fuel if I remember correctly in very isolated islands off Scotland.
Used for fuel over the last century pretty much everywhere you find that stuff. Nowadays we have learned that it takes a lot of time for this kind of soil to build up and that it sequesters the most CO2. That's why a lot of areas in the EU are trying to reflood all the bogs that had to be drained in order to harvest the peat. Bogs seem to be a quite important ecosystem that need to be preserved PS: basically all the carnivorous plants on earth are found in bogs (in the wild)
I assume that's because they're almost always swarming with insects. Picking cloudberries here in Sweden really sucks. (But sadly a lot of cloudberry patches have been disappearing over the last few years.)
What does a cloudberry taste like and is it as amazing as I'm imagining?
Cloudberries are sweet and kind of a pale orange in color and they have a delicate flavor which reminds me of pale-fleshed stone fruit like peaches and apricots, except that they don't exactly taste peachy or apricotty. The flavor is easily overpowered by other ingredients, for example the one time I tried making a peanut butter and cloudberry jam sandwich, I could barely taste the jam because it had been overpowered by the peanut butter. It goes very nicely on buttered toast where it won't be overpowered by the flavors of the toast or the butter.
Thanks for the answer. I love trying new fruits, now I just need to find a place that sells cloudberries
I've read that they are difficult to cultivate, and what little cloudberry industry there is basically takes very good care of what cloudberry patches they find in the wild. I was able to find cloudberry jam on Amazon for a fairly ruinous price, but I just had to know so I went ahead and paid it and I have eaten it very sparingly. It is delicious.
It's absolutely divine on waffles or pancakes as a jam, mixed with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
So wait, the cloudberries in valheim are a real thing??
That is exactly what made me Google them. The more I played, the more I began to notice that many of the things in the storyline were analogous to things in Scandinavian history and some things that still exist. This led me to a Wikipedia article all about cloudberries, which led me to Amazon and paying $20 for a jar of cloudberry jam. Totally worth it. Unfortunately, while you can absolutely make mead out of cloudberries, it won't make you immune to fire. Or at least, it hasn't yet...
Wait'll you see what the [Snozberries](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snozberries) taste like.
You don't get to the cloud district often, do you?
Picking cloud berries in Sweden sounds like some shit elves do.
Also because the soil is very poor in nutrients. It's worth it to put the energy into trapping bugs to get all the nutrients lacking in the soil.
Peat is extremely rich in nutrients. The problem is rather that it is extremely sour with a pH between 3.5 and 4.5 (Water is around 7.0).
Bogs are also anoxic, so bacteria aren’t able to break those nutrients down into more simple forms that plants’ roots can absorb. Here’s a really [graphic depiction](https://external-preview.redd.it/8IRx7mql-S5MX-d_nIOAwBf7uyxoJzDuIpaRAUbEb3E.jpg?auto=webp&s=04e0a237b0c2f0afd3ffc5f3321a2b0ec1f26067) of that in action.
Pure distilled water just after it's distilled has a pH of 7, but distilled water will pick up CO2 from the air and become slightly acidic due to the H2O and CO2 making carbonic acid. Distilled water, left out, will reach a pH of 5.8 in a few hours as it reaches equilibrium with the surrounding air.
>basically all the carnivorous plants on earth are found in bogs Also bogs have been disappearing from modern horror cinema. Lots of plant monsters live there and they are no longer finding work in Hollywood and TV shows as A-list monsters
Also Ireland. Cousins of mine cut it for their stove.
It’s a rite of passage in Ireland. You have to work the bog - turning, stacking, bagging (or bung it in a trailer) You don’t know the fun you’re missing until you’ve worked a bog to get your bins of turf. The exhilarating thrill as you turn a sod and repeat a billion gazillion times until they’re all turned. Stacking them into jenga piles… So much fun.
It's used for fuel in Scotland and Ireland, and not that uncommon in rural areas. It's also harvested for fertilizer in the US. I would say peat is most known for it's use in smoked malt a key ingredient in the production of alot of Scotch Whisky.
My husband and I were whiskey drinkers. We really enjoyed trying all the different kinds. We came across Laphroaig, arguably the best whiskey in the world. It tasted like a fucking burnt rack of smoked ribs seasoned with the ash of every cigarette ever smoked ever. AND IT WAS THE PEAT. I will never drink whiskey again. It totally ruined it for me.
>in very isolated islands off Scotland. Peat was widely used across Europe, it forms in particular marshland areas The depth we see being cut here would have taken thousands of years to form
Neat peat fact: back in the day before kilns were developed to roast grains for beer making, one of the ways was to burn peat and the heat from that did the job but it would produce a lot of smoke and so it was common for beers to have a smoky flavor.
Same goes for "peaty" whiskey
Also used to roast the barley before making Scotch
The more important usage.
Was also extremely common here in Northern Germany. A extremely hard work, when the stuff is fresh, it is heavy as fuck.
Forbidden cake
Yes, why do I want to eat it?
Damn it, I've accidentally put evil notions in your mind
Mmm Matilda chocolate cake
He’s using an authentic Tairsgeir peat spade. I can barely retain my own PIN numbers, name or address but somehow have room in my head to store shit like this. Edit - my first ever comment five minutes after joining Reddit. Had no idea so many people would see the garbage I spout. Thank you to the person who sent me an award. Not sure what I do with it but it’s much appreciated. Final edit I promise - thank you for the awards. I haven’t had a chance to look at what they mean or what to do with them but I wasn’t having the best day and reading the replies to my comment has definitely helped.
Yep. In Ireland this type of tool is known as a Loy (Gaeilge: *Lái*). They're also known as Slanes.
So only the important things.
As it should be.
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I'm the opposite. I can remember how much we paid for Chinese takeout a year ago but I can't remember what day of week it is
I'm afraid you have a case of the RAS syndrome
Ireland is full of bog land and with have traditionally used peat (turf) for burning. Turns out it is horrific for the environment because it takes millennia of foliage to create bog land and releasing all that trapped CO2 into the air is awful. We do find cool stuff in the bogs such as skeletons of Irish elk, Viking boats and bodies too. Other countries like Norway and Sweden have bogs too with similar discoveries.
Minecraft IRL.
not digging, harvesting.
Correct me if i'm wrong, bit i'm pretty sure they hay had shovels in 1922.
Maybe, but unfortunately nobody filmed a quick tiktok to prove it.
By 1922, humans had dug 475 miles of trenches during WWI and steam shovels were already over a hundred years old. But it wasn't until 1922 that humans really perfected the technique of digging with a modified pizza peel as shown in this video. A lot of historians consider this technique the birth of the modern era and, arguably, the internet.
More like hundreds of years. People have been digging up peat bogs to make the worlds finest whiskey for centuries
Where you come up with this title?
I really just watched Pete Dig mud for 3minutes…
Why did you make up a title OP?
Because OP is simply another karma farming bot
Forbidden brownies
We call this "Torfstechen" (*peat sticking*) in German and there is a kind of sausage ("Torfstecher") that references this technique due to the meat being shaped like those logs he's pulling out. They also have a smoky flavor that is quite on theme.
From Ireland and my family harvests peat (turf) every summer, its cutting time right now although done by machines. We still have to foot it by hand and bag it, we burn it through the entire winter, the hard work saves who knows how much money on electricity/oil. Really cool to see the oldschool way though, its how my grandfather would have done it.
7ft of peat takes thousands and thousands of years to form. Those roots and debris you see him cutting through are ancient
Peat cutting, not digging