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RE: Building a Raised Bed With Junk Timber and Cloth Bed Update
Way to use what you have to produce something you didn't. If you do a raised bed later on for longer periods you can just use a little cheap mud or clay to set the logs in place and still not cost a dime. That is a great axe. The older vintage steel is way better then newer. I like to pick up pieces like that for $15 here and there and just add a new handle and a little love on the sharping stones. Thanks for the idea of free raised beds.
I don't think you would even need to chink the logs. If a person could get a hold of scrap re-bar(or something similar), and used fresh log, especial a rot resistant species like black locust, a bed like this would last years. If you ever wanted to move them it would by like giant Lincoln logs. Very quick and simple. I have a vision of using these types of beds to remediate abandon surface mines her in Central Appalachia. Build the beds, put in a planting of multiple species with deep growing roots that can effectively penetrate compacted mine soils, then move the beds over after the plants are established and stat again. We can dredge our sediment polluted streams to fill the beds. Before long you have three feet(or how ever many feet you want) of topsoil on essential dead land.