Arnold, CA…If you ever need to build an emergency fire and need dry fuel in winter and even in rain look up. In most conifer forests as the trees grow they let the branches at lower levels die. Since these are under the protected canopy of the trees these can remain dry. Since we have […]
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…The Chainsaw Cabin in now our working office even in its unfinished state. Now it is time to get the rest of the battens made and installed. In this video it is us cutting down some battens and a bit of driving near the cabin during the last of fall. About The Chainsaw Cabin […]
Arnold, CA…Arnold, CA…This might be the world’s greenest way to cook! Heresy you say? Well, where we are working on the Chainsaw Cabin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California it is a high fire hazard area. There are even grants available for some to remove ladder fuels, brush & vegetation. That is all we […]
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…This parcel has several seasonal springs on it thankfully. In this past wet winter the hill behind the Chainsaw Cabin was flowing 20-30 gallons a minute. As we get into summer the flow has dropped to a fraction of that. I know that a some point I need to improve the spring farther down […]
Arnold, CA…Morning from the Chainsaw Cabin. More Videos coming soon…been working on water system. Not very fun…
Arnold, CA…We are on a 40 Days & 40 Night sprint to get the Chainsaw Cabin Tiny Home maybe not completely finished but livable. For Days 20 – 30 we worked several hours per day on the project. As with our last video much of wasn’t camera worthy. Much of it was clearing brush & […]
