Topic: Is there a proper name for..

[Digeroo]

Beavers know which way a tree will fall.   I would have thought that humans could have found a way to make it more predictable.

Interesting about the damped fire and carbon monoxide, my MIL often did it.   Before central heating, 'keeping the fire in' all night was the way to keep warm.   

[GrannieAnnie]

Beavers know which way a tree will fall.   I would have thought that humans could have found a way to make it more predictable.

Interesting about the damped fire and carbon monoxide, my MIL often did it.   Before central heating, 'keeping the fire in' all night was the way to keep warm.

The pioneers would start a lot of trees burning internally. Then when one would finally fall it would start a wave of trees crashing down helter-skelter, limbs flying everywhere I'd guess. We had one very distant relative "killed by a tree."

Seems to me folks often "banked the fire" at night and sometimes had a pot of dried beans- Boston Baked Beans- cooking away in the coals overnight. Maybe nobody got killed as long as the chimney was working properly.

[Unwashed]

I think you'd call the kind of file you're describing a "clamp".

[goodlife]

I think you'd call the kind of file you're describing a "clamp".

Oh...now that might be the name I've been looking for...

[goodlife]

CLAMP!!!!
 "clamp" means nothing more or less than a pile. A "clamp" can
really a pile of anything...   
  Oxford Dictionary:
clamp (2) pile (of bricks for burning || potatoes, etc. under straw and
earth, peat, garden rubbish, etc.) Origin: 16th century probably from Dutch
"klamp" heap, in brickmaking, related to clump."

That's sorted then... I wonder what is the next thing that start bothering my little brain..

[goodlife]

I'm going to do fire clamp today... I brought some wood from work and last little bit of garden rubbish is going to be sorted later on today..

Fire clamp....that even 'feels' right in my mouth...fire clamp...fire clamp... 
When I start to use that word most of people won't know what I'm on about...it is time to start making use of the good old word..clamp... (It is like having a 'Miranda moment' when saying that word)

[GrannieAnnie]

Folks will think you've slipped into speaking Finnish.

[goodlife]

Folks will think you've slipped into speaking Finnish.