I had a plan for what to do during these two days but an opportunity struck. A gentleman contacted me via one of my Facebook Marketplace sales posts to offer a bunch of red oak and hickory logs to me for free. I drove to his place to find a neatly stac…
Read moreStocking up on beams to experiment with timber framing. I’m cutting a few 8x8x12 posts, and processing the offcuts as 10′ 1x stock.
Read moreMore rearangeritus near the driveway. Our driveway is 1,300 feet long, and we didn’t have the budget up front to build the driveway to “set it and forget it” standards. Instead, we settled for “pretty darn good,” which it …
Read moreWe’ve spent a lot of time lately pondering, planning, and working with our brains more than our bodies. So I felt the need to get out and break a sweat. Splitting firewood is one of those activities that I rarely want to do, but I feel so terrifi…
Read moreTK gets more seat time on the tractor and uses the grapple for the first time. At this rate, I’ll be out of a job soon. Then again, I may just be out of a tractor if I don’t armor plate the bottom of mine. We were able to get a lot of the p…
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