To Build a Fire

In 2021, much of our work at Mayo Clinic Platform will be creating repeatable processes that achieve their intended result in a timely, repeatable, scalable fashion. To understand what it means to achieve process maturity, let me tell the story of firewood management at Unity Farm Sanctuary, a great illustration of use case definition and attention to detail.At the Sanctuary, we heat the farmhouse in the evening with a wood fire using fallen trees from the property. The logs must be sorted into wood species  — ash and black birch can be burned without aging, while maple and oak must be aged. Cedar and pine are not good firewood because their oils cause the wood to pop and sputter. Poplar is not a good firewood because it smells and doesn ' t generate much heat.Once we ' ve identified the right wood for the right purpose, it needs to be cut into logs less than 2 feet long so they can be split and stored.How do you cut up a fallen tree? You need multiple tools, including a chain saw for bucking, a forest axe for limbing, a timber jack to lift the tree off the ground, a sawbuck to trim the logs that are too long and a felling wedge to prevent the chain saw from getting pinched as logs are cut.*If you have all these tools and the training to use them, you can reduce a fallen tree into firewood for splitting.Then how do you split it? An engineer in West Bridgewater, Mass., custom built the SuperSplit, which us...
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