Arnold, CA…The Floorboarding Continues….Only 5 Floorboards left. One way or another we finish them tomorrow… About The Chainsaw Cabin The Chainsaw Cabin is our first building, a small 120 square feet shed/cabin on Hewn Hill. All lumber will be hand milled with a small inexpensive electric chainsaw. This is to see if anyone can build […]
Arnold, CA…Well the floorboarding continues. Once we finish with this log we will have enough floorboards for the Chainsaw Cabin and maybe a couple of loft floorboards left over. Measure, cut board, lather, rinse & repeat. Hopefully this weekend we can move our efforts back to the property and start putting the Chainsaw Cabin together. […]
Arnold, CA…In continuing this block of days where we are just grinding through getting enough lumber milled for the Chainsaw Cabin floor and walls. We should be able to shift our videos from behind our house, back to Hewn Hill later this week. The log we are working on now is the over 2,000 lb […]
Arnold, CA…According to a log weight estimator online this log came in at over a ton. Our goal today was merely to get it on the ground safely and without breaking any equipment or human limbs. To be honest I am glad that this day is over. The log we moved was perched precariously at […]
Arnold, CA…Well we wish our progress on the Chainsaw Cabin would have been steady without any breaks but alas not to be. But thankfully the breaks were largely Mother Nature driven as she blessed us with a couple inches of water in various formats. The experts will say that it won’t have any impact on […]
Arnold, CA…Well we wanted to get something done everyday consecutively until it was finished. However, thankfully we have actually had moisture in various forms falling from the sky and it is still falling as I write this. I will get something done on it this evening as it is supposed to dry out a bit. […]
Arnold, CA…We started with a log that was almost 17 feet long and cut it in two to be able to move it around. We were able to get 10 boards ranging from just over 8 inches wide to over 16 inches wide. As you may have seen we chalked a centerline and then just […]
Arnold, CA…After a bit of moisture from the sky we are back in action. On our Day Nine work session we marked and started cutting slices of lumber from this log with hopefully will be Wallboards on the Chainsaw Cabin. We are largely just eyeballing it and trying to get boards that are good enough […]
Arnold, CA…We are starting a long stretch of milling, wallboards, flooring, rafters, roof sheeting, etc. Literally we probably have 100 hours of chainsaw work ahead. It will probably take a few new chains, a couple gallons of chain oil, a new back brace, moaning, groaning, cursing, complaining and questioning one’s sanity. But as we have […]
Arnold, CA…Today we can officially say the Chainsaw Cabin build is underway. We finished ripping the last perimeter floor joist boards and took them over to Hewn Hill and laid them out on the pad. Tomorrow we hope to get them all leveled out, squared up and ready for walls. The Chainsaw Cabin is our […]
