Bits and pieces
on Geri Skeen (Rwanda), 25/Sep/2011 11:29, 34 days ago
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I’ve got a few odd photos which might interest you.Below are two men sawing hardwood planks by hand using a two-person saw. You do occasionally come across a chain saw being used to fell really big trees, but the vast majority of work felling and cutting wood is done by hand. I’ve seen a man chopping down a tree I couldn’t have reached my arms around, just with an axe. And here’s a man doing something else with a tree – climbing it. His friends pointed him out to me and he said he didn’t mind me photographing him.This picture gives you a good idea of the terracing that covers most Rwandan hills:No, I'm wrong - there's often terracing but this photo shows instead how fields are often at a steep angle, which can cause erosion. The government is insisting that areas like these are converted to terracing.My bedroom wall, complete with gecko:
