Morning from Hewn Hill
Arnold, CA…Morning on April 22nd from Hewn Hill. God gave us another day!
Fuel Plant
Arnold, CA…Not so many years ago this was the primary fuel processing facility for cooking your meals, baking your bread, washing your clothes & staying warm in winter. It also served as a fuels reduction tool in forested regions. Not only that if you kept up the pace it doubled as cardio. All of the […]
Chainsaw Cabin & Hewn Hill Update
Arnold, CA…In theory simple projects like the Chainsaw Cabin should be simple and easy to finish. Somehow that’s not how life seems to work. The important things fall behind the urgent things of family and daily life. Projects like this which if I can get it finished change everything somehow slip behind the daily grind […]
Soffit Boards Finally Done! Now We Can Finally Start Roof Sheeting on Sub $1,000 Chainsaw Cabin!
Arnold, CA…In today’s video we finally finished the last of the soffit boards so we can turn our focus to getting the roof sheeting done. Before that the next thing on the list is to get the floor in the sleeping loft finished and nailed down. This will give a stable plaform to work on […]
High Winds Make a Bit of a Mess
Arnold, CA…The last day or so our area has been under a high wind advisory. We have had enough moisture so fire risk has been minimal. It did, however, rip the tarps off that had been covering the Chainsaw Cabin. It has been weird weather winter so far. Normally we would have snow on the […]
Rafter Time for Chainsaw Cabin
Arnold, CA…In projects like this which for me is the most important thing to get finished at times, it seems like everything else seems to come first on the urgency list if not the important list. Business, work & family always ring the urgent bell. In many ways though that is the point and only […]
A Composting Outhouse for Hewn Hill
Arnold, CA…Every Off Grid Homestead needs an outhouse! No, not the old-fashioned kind where you dig a hole and put an outhouse over it. This is a composting outhouse where everything goes into the compost bin and remains until it is safe and ready for use. About The Chainsaw Cabin The Chainsaw Cabin is our […]
Making Final Lumber Needed to Finish Our Under $1,000 Cabin Build
Arnold, CA…Over the last week or so we have been making lumber needed to finally finish off the Chainsaw Cabin. As of this post we have 8 boards left to have enough to finish roof sheeting, make doors, window frames, replace loft floor with better boards etc. This video shows a few being made. About […]
Chainsaw Cabin Finally on Home Stretch
Arnold, CA…It has been an eventful few weeks since our last update. We have had the opportunity to expand Hewn into a more commercial enterprise as well as an off grid homestead. It wasn’t planned but an opportunity came up that we knew that if we didn’t at least try and take advantage of it […]
Lumber Mill Now Making Boards
Arnold, CA…We were fortunate enough to borrow my brother’s sawmill. This will help us finish not only the cabin but get us going on several different projects.