Arnold, CA…Today was a looong day in the news business. We have a 1,000 acres plus fire here locally and when the fire broke out with it’s initial rate of spread we thought we may have to evacuate today. Firefighters did a wonderful job slowing it down and we are still here as is the […]
Arnold, CA….Everynight from Sunday through Thursday we will should go live around 11pm and work for an hour or so on the Hewn Jeep. Her name is Ruby which was my mother’s name and it is a nice vintage name. Tonight we did a bit of torch & water hot and cold on almost 80 […]
Arnold, CA…Our progress on our first little log cabin on Hewn Hill came to a pause when we knew we needed a four wheeler, small tractor or equivalent to move our logs and construction material to the cabin site. Since this is a project with an extreme budget spending $10 – $20k on a vehicle […]
Arnold, CA…Hewn is a journey to see if we can turn a 5 acre parcel that not many people seemed to want into a workable little property and mini-pioneer homestead. There are many of these builds now on the in the internet and people are doing amazing work. Most however are in extremely remote areas. […]
Arnold, CA…No video today as all I got done was a bit of debarking. My stockpile of logs now has bugs under the bark. The wood is still good but need to start processing them.
Arnold, CA…Today we started our Daily Video series on the build on Hewn Hill. Our first building will be a 10 x 12 shed to most people but we are going to build it in a hand hewn log style.