slide show of the cabin... sorta;)

I tried to make this in a neater nicer more organized fashion, however i am a techno idiot and have issues with posting simple pictures let alone taking pictures n making them into movies,,, so a slide show in no particular order is all i could muster up. Atleast it gives a lil idea into what goes into the process...

http://www.kodakgallery.com/feelfreefarmproject/main/the_log_cabin

 

Wow-

You folks put in alot of work there.

 

well we figure between us and the numerous volunteers we had periodically through the process there is about 1500 man hours in it so far.. i still have all the trim to do inside and out.. that involves a lot of meticulous chiseling,so im sure there is about another 100 man hours(if not a little more) left before its completely done..

im sure someone with more experience and a tractor etc.could knock a couple hundred hours off the time its taken us,but hey it was our first time and we didnt have a tractor..
a lot of those hours were VERY labor intensive,for a long time we said we would never do it again.now,, i dunno,i guess with a little better equipment,, like a tractor and a block and tackle and 47 mexicans id do it again.. lol


dilli says shes gotta fix the blurry ones an do some more tweaking,theres some more pics somewhere she says,shes gotta figure out how to reverse them all so ya can see start to finish as well.. so check back sometime,will post when its fixed better..

 

Ooo....very, very nice.

 

heres a couple out of my gallery from the early stages of the project that arent blurry..



fun fun,,scraping the bark is a nasty job,and more work than one would think.


yay only 25 more to go...:H

 

the painting i did on the inside of the door.. (dont ask)





damn dirty hippy...

 

do you always give the camera the bird?

seriously though....I'm very envious of the cabin....

have you all ever read the book "Woodswoman"?

 

yes.. i dont care for my picture being took,if i can get it up before ya snap the picture im gonna flip the bird..

 

dilli is one lucky lady....seriously.

 

im the lucky one..



the first set of logs being square is crucial..



once its going ya gotta make sure everything stays plumb and doesnt start leaning in or out.

 

I wish I lived closer... You'd be putting me to work.

 

the beams for the loft were cut with a chainsaw,this one is oak as it carries the majority of the load for the loft.






the lumber we purchased from a local saw mill,by far our largest expenditure for the project.

well that gets ya up to where the pictures turn blurry in the slide show.. hope yall enjoy them..

 

if you lived closer i can guarantee wed take ya up on the offer..

we are sittin here talkin about how cool it would be to build another one, only this time advertise it as a class and charge like 500 bucks to about ten people.

 

Awesome idea... I'd take the course. It would be worth the money. Of course after the SHTF the money would be worthless so we'd have to negotiate something that would be worthwhile to you and dilli.

 

Nice work,folks.Livin' the dream sure looks good.Wish I'd been there to hand split some shakes and nail 'em up for ya.The comp looks pretty good tho.Pretty country there---way to go!

 

the shingles were a last resort.. due to time and financial constraints it wound up the only option..
ideally eventually i would like to build a frame over the top of the existing roof insulate it and then at the very least put a metal roof on it.
we would love a shake roof of course,however i dunno about splitting all the shingles and cedar shake aint cheap...

 

what kind of wood did you use for the shakes?

if you know someone with a bandsaw mill you can get an attachment for cutting them athough they wont last as long as hand split!

 

we didnt use shakes.. go to the link in the O.P. there is more pictures there..

i put the first stages up in the thread because those in the slide show that dilligaf made were blurred due to the fact she forgot to shrink them..

 

oops my bad got confused caus of scratchos post! ahhwell nice place though still like to visit someday i got outher folks down that way id have to take a week or two to see everyone lol! peace!

 

I've heard you can use pine shakes and can make them with a froe,which is just a handle with a horizontal blade that you can force thru a 24 inch block to make 24 inch shakes.You just have to flip the block after each shake is cut and cut from the other end of the block.You'd need a pretty big pine tho.