A Bit More Firewood This Eve
Arnold, CA…This afternoon we made a few more cuts in a downed tree to fill up our wood supply. The Video is below..
Brush Pile Into Kindling, Everything Can Have Value
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 […]
Happy New Year!! Let’s Make 2022 a Great Year!
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 […]
Heating Your Home For Free?
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 […]
More GPW Bolt Removing…We Hope.
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 […]
Been a Few Days Since Last Video. Picked Up Utility Trailer & Other Things
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 […]
Can Ruby the 1942 Ford GPW Get a New Fuel Pump Tonight?
Arnold, CA…Well tonight the job on the list is try to get the old melted fuel pump off of our old GPW. Our budget build theme continues as our new fuel pump cost us a whopping $32 dollars. So the premise for Hewn is can anyone whether they be rich or of more modest means […]
Can We Get the 1942 GPW’s Fender Off Tonight?
Arnold, CA…Out little bit of “Pioneering” tonight is to see if we can get the 79 year old fender off of Ruby the GPW. Once we have the fender is off it will free up enough room to make some repairs straightening some bent up bits and also start working on getting the ole Jeep […]
Join Us Tonight for Another Work Session. Can You Still Pioneer in 2021?
Arnold, CA…Can you still Pioneer in 2021? We certainly hope so and are betting our future on it. We hope to turn a 5 acre hilly, steep mountain property into a livable little homestead. We also plan on doing this for less that $100k. We chose this amount as it is about the maximum mortgage […]
Another Late Night / Early Morning Work Session
Arnold, CA…Another Late Night / Early Morning Work Session. It has been too many days. A funeral out of state, a son with Covid and basically life got in the way. Son is fine and getting better so now need to get Ruby back on track.