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October 2017

YAKSO FALLS

Yakso Falls is a 3/4 mile hike from Little River Road Road ( NE-27 ).  Park at Lake in the Woods camp ground, and cross back over the NE-27 to fine the trail head. “The Yakso Falls Trail passes through an old-growth forest which has been selective logged and has many wildflowers during the early […]

Cut Optimization

This past weekend, I was thinking about cut optimization. This is a method for planning cuts to produce the most pieces of given sizes out of a quantity of material of some length with minimum waste. This was brought about by the planning process involved in building a new garden railway trestle. (I’ll cover the […]