Arnold, CA…For Day Eight our work focused for seeing if our small pump could keep up with the output from the spring which is about 75 feet from the storage tanks. There is also a 30 foot elevation change as well. The head pressure slowed the pump output so in our testing the pump & […]
Arnold, CA…For Day Seven our work focused on completing winter storm damage to our floor joists & reinstalling our floor. Even with a covering tarp the amount of water from the winter storms swelled the floorboards, broke off lag screws and pushed the walls out. We are now back to a solid base and time […]
Arnold, CA…For Day Six our work focused on repairing winter storm damage to our floor joists etc. Even with a covering tarp the amount of water from the winter storms swelled the floorboards, broke off lag screws and pushed the walls out. Need to get this back solid before we start of roof system. We […]
Arnold, CA…Today was spent primarily making a path to and clearing out a pad for two for two 600 gallons of water storage for the Chainsaw Cabin. After the pad was finished my son helped me get the two 300 gallon totes into place. We still need to improve the spring a bit more so […]
Arnold, CA…Today’s Chainsaw Cabin Tiny Home Update is another bit about water behind the cabin. We plan on putting an outdoor kitchen, food prep area behind the cabin along the embankment. As we started moving dirt water started to pour out of the hill. The more dirt we moved the waterflow increased. Having a potential […]
Arnold, CA…Just a short video today. In the area where we are going to put a small outdoor kitchen we hit a spring. Good news is there is water, bad news is we need to make a spring box to make it useable. With where this spring is there is a good chance this one […]
Arnold, CA…In this video we cut a few additional boards for our rafters & floor joists. The ones we made a few days ago were a bit too short for the floor joists. We can use them somewhere else so they won’t go to waste. We forgot we will need a few extra inches to […]
Arnold, CA…Was last night’s dusting of snow the last for this epic winter? Who knows but a 40 day & 40 night sprint to make the Chainsaw Cabin livable & property functional on a day to day basis starts now. We hope to post a video update everyday the next 40 days. In this video […]
