u/penguinsandR

This is a bit of a random question that I’m hoping you guys, being of the practical sort, might be able to help me out with. I need to move approx 1.5-1.6 metric tonnes of 2.4m long pieces of rebar (525 lengths) up a hill as the delivery truck cannot make it up there. I’m not opposed to hard work, and will unfortunately be forced to carry this myself, approximately 100m.

I’m looking for any suggestions as to how I might be able to make this as efficient as possible.

I wish I could get machinery involved, but I’m afraid that’s not feasible where I am.

My initial thought is some form of shoulder strap or harness to move as much weight as possible onto my shoulders and back to minimise the nr of round trips.

Thoughts?

These are stakes for a small vineyard I’m planting for context.

Figured you guys might enjoy this article I wrote on what whole bunch and stem inclusion contributes to a wine.

I write a newsletter about wine and viticulture, which is a pretty small niche adjacent to the foodie community. My growth has been remarkably steady with both free and paid subscription growing between 4-6% per month, which creates a nice 45 degree (ish) upwards trajectory for my stats. I am approaching the 1k free sub mark and was wondering whether anyone has noticed any particular behaviour from the algorithm in how it makes your content visible depending on certain thresholds, whether that is free or paid subscriptions. At 41 paid subs I’m some way off the “bestseller tick” but expect to get there eventually.

Curious to hear your thoughts / experiences.

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And what did you drink before then? Just curious as everyone must start somewhere, and I suspect that those that get bitten by the bug as it were tend to have come across an aha-wine, even if not super fancy.

How did you approach wine before this wine?