Arnold, CA….After the recent winter storms that left us without power for 5 days last week and in some areas 5 feet of snow we needed to run some errands and clean and catch up. So there will be no video today but just a photo. We know is early in our project but we […]
Arnold, CA…Today was a loooong news day so we didn’t get to work on our Hewn project until after 11pm this eve. We have needed to get a burned oil line of our old 1942 Ford GPW Jeep so we can order a new one. It was in a hard to get to place and […]
Arnold, CA…This afternoon we cleared away the brush from the northern side of our building site. Looks like we will have to move a few wheelbarrow loads of material to get the pad level. But all in all not so bad for building on the side of a hill.
Arnold, CA…Today we made it to the property and started measuring the pad for the first building. It will be on a fairly steep hill so we will need to do a bit of shovel work to get is all laid out. Today’s video is below…
Arnold, CA…This afternoon we made a few more cuts in a downed tree to fill up our wood supply. The Video is below..
Arnold, CA…For today I spent a bit of time at the property turning a brush pile into kindling & fire starter twigs etc. Sometimes we take for granted the inherent value of many things. It takes so many BTUs per day to cook our food, keep us warm power our lives. I live in a […]
Arnold, CA…Today on a cold, wintery day we needed to go to property and cut a bit of wood. A winter storm has pounded our area and knocked out power most. We are in one of the last pockets getting resorted and we have been without power for going on 5 days now. Where we […]
Arnold, CA…One of the biggest goals of a budget project is controlling costs. Our home is about 4 miles from the property where we are going to build the cabin. It is an old electric only house built in the mid 60s. It has baseboard electric heaters that can run $6-800 per month to heat […]
Arnold, CA…It has been waaay too long since we have worked on the ole GPW publicly. It has been a busy few weeks with some travel helping a family member get ready to open a business & collecting parts and with winter heading our way getting an old 3/4 ton, 4wd pickup running to move […]
Arnold, CA…Well there has been another gap between videos. Work interfered yet again. I have however been doing a few minutes here & there. I also picked up a used $400 utility trailer we are going to paint to match the GPW. It’s not a WW2 trailer but it is one that if we add […]
