Day 576 – Stocking Up
Stocking up on beams to experiment with timber framing. I’m cutting a few 8x8x12 posts, and processing the offcuts as 10′ 1x stock.
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Day 574 – $200 IN $1,000 OUT
More 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 moreDay 563 – Nothing Works Unless You Do
We’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 moreDay 563 – Yup. I did it again. And training a future pro!
TK 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…
Read moreDay 555 – A Lot of Work in 2 Directions
Busy days make for great sleep! In this video we refined a corner of the clearing by taking out a patch of relatively useless pines that block our view of beautiful hardwoods and we picked up a few free oak logs and a load of firewood.
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