Arnold, CA…Arnold, CA…This might be the world’s greenest way to cook! Heresy you say? Well, where we are working on the Chainsaw Cabin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California it is a high fire hazard area. There are even grants available for some to remove ladder fuels, brush & vegetation. That is all we […]
Arnold, CA…Well the last couple of months have been dominated by work on water. Not much else is possible without adequate water. Now we have a decent water supply is not abundant we can get back to work on the Chainsaw Cabin and get a roof on it before winter. The goal for this weekend […]
Arnold, CA…This parcel has several seasonal springs on it thankfully. In this past wet winter the hill behind the Chainsaw Cabin was flowing 20-30 gallons a minute. As we get into summer the flow has dropped to a fraction of that. I know that a some point I need to improve the spring farther down […]
Arnold, CA…Morning from the Chainsaw Cabin. More Videos coming soon…been working on water system. Not very fun…
Arnold, CA…We are on a 40 Days & 40 Night sprint to get the Chainsaw Cabin Tiny Home maybe not completely finished but livable. For Days 20 – 30 we worked several hours per day on the project. As with our last video much of wasn’t camera worthy. Much of it was clearing brush & […]
Arnold, CA…For Days 15 – 20 we worked several hours per day on the project. Much of it wasn’t camera worthy as we dug a hole for the spring sump tank & pump installed so it push water up to the water tanks. In this video we started lunch and finished up getting the roof […]
Arnold, CA…For Days 10 – 15 mother nature intervened again and dropped more moisture on the cabin site. The soil is a clay mixture and if you work too much on it while it is wet it really makes a mess. The weather set us back a bit but now it looks to be warm […]
Arnold, CA…For Day 10 we started working on the ceiling & loft joists. First though coffee was in order. As we clear trails on the property we try to put the twigs and branches to a good use. So they looked to have enough BTUs to percolate a pot of coffee and and get ready […]
Arnold, CA…For Day Nine we finally got back to work on the actual cabin after a necessary detour to get the basics of our water system in place. In this video we just did a bit of clean up on the tops of the walls as we get ready to finally get a roof on […]
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 & […]
