Arnold, CA…Thoreau’s Walden impacted me when I was in school many, many years ago. Now in my 60th year I realized that if did not take the leap now I would never take it. Since January 1st, 2024 the Chainsaw Cabin has been my home. Probably not the best planned move as the cabin is […]
Arnold, CA…Oh what to do? You need to make breakfast and you realize you don’t have a knife. Well, technically I did have a multitool but the axe seemed like the better option. This is Hewn after all. Our potato axing prowess is below and the rest of the breakfast making process if you care […]
Arnold, CA…At the core of what we would like for Hewn to become is a rustic, handcrafted products company. So just before Christmas we used our family and the Chainsaw Cabin as home for our first Stumples™ and Hewn Coat Racks. What is a Stumple™ you say? Well thanks for asking and a Stumple™ is […]
Arnold, CA…Our hope for you following along on our progress on Hewn Hill is that you will get an accurate look at what a project like this will entail. The biggest enemy on this project is just plain time. This is a minimal budget, but time intensive project. Like many of you I work 12 […]
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…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 & […]
