i havent posted for quite a while and i feel like i have abandoned the site although i really havnt. i have still been lurking around keeping up a little bit. its just one of those years that i dont have much free time. we found out a few months ago that we re going to have our first child..a son as it were. and i have been working on building the cabin before winter comes.
i actually have more than this done but its all the pics my wife has up right now. but anyways, we have a 12 x 16 cabin already on site. the date on the side reads 1878 but i think it might be 1978..lol but who knows maybe it is that old. no chainsaw marks in it, its all axe and single buck marks. obviously the chinking and the roof have been redone. but anyway we are building around the original cabin. i should be roughly 30 x 31 when finished with a loft. on the logs i am doing my version of a swedish cope and i really like the way its coming along. i dug through the rock and dirt by hand to make a level place to start and build a stone retaining wall to keep the logs off the dirt. all the logs have been lifted and rolled by hand, next week or so i will have pics of my big logs in the front of the house. those i had to position with a block and tackle. maybe we wish i had a winch or a skid steer to help out. so far its all me by my lonesome...pregnant wife cant help much...just keeps me company. i wish i had more time to slow down and enjoy the process, but im on a time line
so i just wanted to let you folks know what i have been into.
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