June give away

Garden Tables/ Benches

These are cut from a short log that would have ended up in a log pile somewhere or burned.  Cut on an angle I can get a longer slab.  Both are cut from the same log with sequential cuts.  The tables stand 17 inches  and are 30 inches long 18 inches wide.  They are rough cut and unfinished

Just like last month, if you are interested, send us an email and we will add you to the list

The tree's keep coming and so the building goes on.

Kevin & Arthur on the sun-room roof. 

The tree's keep coming and so the saw-milling and the building goes on.

Where will it end?

????

Imagination and apparently physics have no end.....

~Cheryl

When all else fails, add an extra Axel!

Always on the lookout for fallen logs to mill for lumber for the house Kevin found several down the road from us.  (Recently cut down by our local Asplundh crew on a mission to keep the power lines clear)

Between the back hoe, chain saw and a obviously too small homemade trailer, Kevin got as far as loading.

As we began the trek home with me as a precaution following him with my hazard lights on the left trailer tire hissed and blew.  So home we went to get an axel we’d acquired from the mobile home we scraped out earlier this month.

After lifting the trailer with the backhoe we positioned the new axel and Kevin chained it all together.

These logs are expected to go into rafters, floor joists, sub floor boards and roof sheathing.

~ Cheryl 

Green Mill Extension

The steel came in yesterday. This morning the transformation began. The additional ten-foot is in place. Ready now to cut the rafters, top and bottom plates for the walls.

The rainbow of colors you see are simply for protection from the weather. It seems no full cans of spray paint were found in the shop.

~Cheryl

P.s. Yes, Kevin wears blue shirts a lot. He is a volunteer fire fighter for our community this is one of his multiple VFD shirts.

Framing Package Countdown Commences

Using logs from local fall off our Count Down begins.

Framing package $3000.00

Boards cut to date:  $138.00

It has always been our dream to design and build our own home.

With the foundation poured and cinder blocks laid to form the back 2 walls, the framing package has taken us on a different journey.

We’d had trees milled into boards in the past. Now we have the capacity to do it ourselves.

Our ‘Green’ mill.

The chunk of wood on the mill is called a cant.  The boards are cut from this.

Also note the red and gray swing set frame behind the mill covered with a tarp that keeps freshly cut lumber weather safe until it is transported to the drying stacks.

Kevin is currently enhancing the mill to accommodate cutting board lengths up to 20 feet.

~ Cheryl
Kevin is also going to make some modifications such as a power travel and power up and down, pushing that thing all is quite the chore...

~Kevin