Arnold, CA…For Day Seven our work focused on completing winter storm damage to our floor joists & reinstalling our floor. Even with a covering tarp the amount of water from the winter storms swelled the floorboards, broke off lag screws and pushed the walls out. We are now back to a solid base and time […]
Arnold, CA…For Day Six our work focused on repairing winter storm damage to our floor joists etc. Even with a covering tarp the amount of water from the winter storms swelled the floorboards, broke off lag screws and pushed the walls out. Need to get this back solid before we start of roof system. We […]
Arnold, CA…Today was spent primarily making a path to and clearing out a pad for two for two 600 gallons of water storage for the Chainsaw Cabin. After the pad was finished my son helped me get the two 300 gallon totes into place. We still need to improve the spring a bit more so […]
Arnold, CA…Today’s Chainsaw Cabin Tiny Home Update is another bit about water behind the cabin. We plan on putting an outdoor kitchen, food prep area behind the cabin along the embankment. As we started moving dirt water started to pour out of the hill. The more dirt we moved the waterflow increased. Having a potential […]
Arnold, CA…Just a short video today. In the area where we are going to put a small outdoor kitchen we hit a spring. Good news is there is water, bad news is we need to make a spring box to make it useable. With where this spring is there is a good chance this one […]
Arnold, CA…In this video we cut a few additional boards for our rafters & floor joists. The ones we made a few days ago were a bit too short for the floor joists. We can use them somewhere else so they won’t go to waste. We forgot we will need a few extra inches to […]
Arnold, CA…Was last night’s dusting of snow the last for this epic winter? Who knows but a 40 day & 40 night sprint to make the Chainsaw Cabin livable & property functional on a day to day basis starts now. We hope to post a video update everyday the next 40 days. In this video […]
Arnold, CA…Well it looks like before this winter season is finished with us we may have had more precipitation in snow, rain, snow & even more rain than in any winter since the 1982-83 season. We keep thinking each storm system will be the last big one and then another wave rolls through. We are […]
Arnold, CA…To say the last few weeks have been frustrating would be a colossal understatement. On the upside we should have plenty of water this summer. Progress on the cabin however has been nill or in reverse. It looks like this may end up being the wettest winter since the winter of 82-83. Bear Valley […]
Arnold, CA…Well on December 1st another storm rolled through. Rained most of the day and then it turned to snow. Haven’t done as much on the Chainsaw Cabin as I would have like in the past few weeks but one can still stay in the pioneer spirit. This is now my third season where our […]
