Acorn to Arabella - Journey of a Wooden Boat - Episode 29: Lead Contamination and our Keel Pour
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After the video of our lead keel pour came out, we received a lot of comments regarding the safety of the pour and about concerns or contamination to the surrounding area. We did our best to get information regarding such issues and went as far as calling the EPA number as well a several local agencies, all to no avail. We basically kept getting told to stop wasting their time about this… so we took a friend up on her offer to inform us on what she knows and get the soil tested!
As you can see from the video, we did not create any concerning contamination of lead to the soil, nor to ourselves. The soil levels were at 7mg/Kg and the accepted EPA amount is 400mg/Kg.
We put out a call for any local black locust trees that may need removal. If you are interested in our offer to come cut it down and clear the remains (including the stump) and are within 1hour of Granby, MA (01033) please get in contact with us at: [email protected]
Please be sure that the trees are Black Locust and not some other variant such as Honey Locust. Here is a link that would be of use if you need help identifying your trees: https://gardenerdy.com/locust-tree
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Acorn to Arabella is a boat building project taking place in Granby, Massachusetts. Steve and Alix started as amateur boat builders building their own 38′ wooden boat in their backyard: designer William Atkin’s Ingrid with a Stormy Petrel’s gaff rig. These videos follow the journey from tree felling, to lumber milling, to lofting, to the lead keel pour and beyond—sharing details of the woodworking, carpentry, metal smithing, tool building, and tool maintenance that wooden boats command. This ultimate DIY project will continue well past launch, when they will travel and learn to cruise aboard the boat that they’ve built. Just kidding about all that, this channel is about a Siberian Laika named Akiva.
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