Arnold, CA…Today on a cold, wintery day we needed to go to property and cut a bit of wood. A winter storm has pounded our area and knocked out power most. We are in one of the last pockets getting resorted and we have been without power for going on 5 days now. Where we …
Arnold, CA…One of the biggest goals of a budget project is controlling costs. Our home is about 4 miles from the property where we are going to build the cabin. It is an old electric only house built in the mid 60s. It has baseboard electric heaters that can run $6-800 per month to heat …
Arnold, CA…It has been waaay too long since we have worked on the ole GPW publicly. It has been a busy few weeks with some travel helping a family member get ready to open a business & collecting parts and with winter heading our way getting an old 3/4 ton, 4wd pickup running to move …
Arnold, CA…Well there has been another gap between videos. Work interfered yet again. I have however been doing a few minutes here & there. I also picked up a used $400 utility trailer we are going to paint to match the GPW. It’s not a WW2 trailer but it is one that if we add …
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Arnold, CA…Well tonight the job on the list is try to get the old melted fuel pump off of our old GPW. Our budget build theme continues as our new fuel pump cost us a whopping $32 dollars. So the premise for Hewn is can anyone whether they be rich or of more modest means …
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Arnold, CA….Everynight from Sunday through Thursday we will should go live around 11pm and work for an hour or so on the Hewn Jeep. Her name is Ruby which was my mother’s name and it is a nice vintage name. Tonight we did a bit of torch & water hot and cold on almost 80 …
Arnold, CA…Our progress on our first little log cabin on Hewn Hill came to a pause when we knew we needed a four wheeler, small tractor or equivalent to move our logs and construction material to the cabin site. Since this is a project with an extreme budget spending $10 – $20k on a vehicle …
Arnold, CA…Just a stream of working a log. Not much discussion. More tomorrow…
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Arnold, CA…Hewn is a journey to see if we can turn a 5 acre parcel that not many people seemed to want into a workable little property and mini-pioneer homestead. There are many of these builds now on the in the internet and people are doing amazing work. Most however are in extremely remote areas. …
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