Got the shower done this spring also.

 

It's been a while, but I have not been lazy. . . .

The loft at our place

Palmyra Mo.

Augusta Mo

Marthsville mo

Wentzville Mo

Selby county Mo.

 

New projects Update. Its been a while!

While I haven't posted in a while, I have been busy out at the cabin.

Built a graveled parking spot for an RV or car.

Had the whole road re-graveled and I spread gravel in the sheds.

 And I put some down where we walk a lot.

A fun project was a raised cooking area, with areas for Dutch oven cooking, grilling and a jet stove.

And started rebuilding the out house. Hope to have an electric composting toilet in there soon.

                                       This video is of the Jet Stove.

  And I also, after 30 plus years, finally got water out at the cabin!

Blast from the past! Around 1995

Probably in all for the two cabins I had to hew about 12 logs.

I know I did 10 for the big cabin, shown in the background of the picture of me sitting.

For the blacksmith cabin, I did maybe four more. So I guess that makes 14 or so.

I did use a chainsaw to cut the vertical cuts, but an axe for the actual hewing.

Let the chips fall where they may.

The one I am sitting on is a sill log for the smaller blacksmith cabin.

By the time I had been doing this a while, after cutting down the tree and cutting it to length and de-limbing, I could hew two sides in about an hour.

I always had a couple of axes on hand and files nearby to keep them sharp

 

Always something to be learned.

 The other day I talked about this classic not to far from me and how I checked on it the other day and found . . . .













. . .  some guys hard at work taking it down. Which is a good thing.
Today they were tagging more of the logs and I had a chance to have a good long talk with them while they worked.

 I have talked about Carpenters marks before, roman numerals in logs, usually used to number logs way back when, when a cabin was going to be moved.

The only place I had ever seen them used before was either on the top plate logs and rafters, or on post and beam buildings.

Today I had a neat surprise.

Each log on one pen of this dogtrot cabin had roman numerals.
If you look at the center of each one of these logs you can see the numbers. The center one has 'VII' marked in it. The others are also marked but a little harder to see.

 What was also neat about this cabin is that it had a
'W' on the west logs and an 'N' on the north logs.


That was so cool.


















Here is a close up of four of the numbers.