NWMT Cabin

[Flyin6]

Cutting tails and installing facia board





Think I’ve shown similar “tools” for hanging long pieces by myself before but here’s another stab at it.



Old guy chit, the trailer made for a nice stable platform for the ladders. That up and down off the trailer and my right knee wasn’t happy about it so I improvised.


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You don't get a pass from the abuse you put on joints from your active youthful years, unfortunately.

Improv is the key to sucessfully continuing projects well into the golden painful years

[Sammconn]

I added OMS…old man steps to mine.
2 x 8 supported from under the frame.
Dropped the height about 8-9 inches for me.

[stlaser]

Hauling logs down the mountain to my neighbor. He’s going to cut these into beams that I will use in a future car port type structure.


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[stlaser]

Other than trimming a couple upper glue lam beam corners with chainsaw on the gable end it’s ready for sheeting. Not too shabby for one man off ladders.


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[JR]

Looks good. Now just some tin and your trailer will be happy.

[stlaser]

Another load going down mountain to the mill.


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[stlaser]

First load of sawn lumber, now to stack it and let air dry over the winter.


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[JR]

I see all that nice wood and think how bad I want a good mantel.

[stlaser]

For NV place or Cali?

[JR]

Kali. Still a little until the NV place gets to that point.

[stlaser]

I dislike underground LP tanks, always have and always will. The developer who built the cabin didn’t want to bring in enough fill & buried the tank too low. So now the lid or box will fill with water during the winter and spring wet season.

This is my second attempt to try and keep water out of it. I buried a drain pipe as low as I could yet still get fall on it to the ditch. The drain opening at the box on the outside at this level it is below the regulator and shut off valve inside the box. I then filled it with pea gravel on the drain side outside of green box to the surface. Finally I cut the soil around the whole thing out about 8” deep and sloped the soil around perimeter of box to the drain side. Finally I backfilled around box with pea gravel. My thought is any water around exterior should make its way thru pea gravel and towards drain. Fingers crossed


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[JR]

Not that it would need it hopefully. But how would they fill it if you really needed LP at those times?

Good looking ahead.

[stlaser]

They can’t if it’s frozen, they have rented a steamer in emergencies on other setups I was told by lp company.

Currently our cabin’s hot water heater and stove are only two appliances running on this LP Tank. I’m going to install a boiler possibly this winter or next year to run radiant floor heat in cabin. I like wood but warm floors would be nice and it’s super efficient.

In addition I’m running a line this fall to the two car garage. My plan is to run a 2 sided boiler for the efficiency apartment upstairs that we need to finish. One side will run the radiant floor heat up there and one side will provide hot water. In addition, I’d like to add an lp wall heater (similar to the low Bay Area of my shop) that would heat garage in winter. Currently, I have a ceiling mounted 220v heater and it sucks a lot of juice.

So I really hope this fixes the LP tank and allows it to be filled in the winter. Future needs will require it. Btw, this is second attempt at fixing the problem. The quick fix didn’t work a year ago.

[Flyin6]

I can't say enough good about the early generation of boilers. Only the ones that straight-up burn wood, actually work. Those EPA-mandated gasified wood boilers only work once in a while, not with anything like damp wood.
One boiler could do everything you just mentioned. My house is huge in volume and it heats the whole place, makes all the hot water and heats two garages too!

[stlaser]

I “may” look at one of those for the next place. But probably not, LP is easy. Next home will have fireplace and large attached garage with wood stove. Then most likely radiant tube floor heat as well.

[JR]

Radiant floors are the way to go. Neighbor who is on solar has them. I may incorporate in my living area, I see many shops built with em too.

[Flyin6]

Radiant floors are the way to go. Neighbor who is on solar has them. I may incorporate in my living area, I see many shops built with em too.

Radiant heat floor is becoming the thing for barns and barndos in this part of Kentucky as well. Now the Amish have people specializing in doing just those!

[stlaser]

Slowly been knocking out small projects.

Got the first loads of lumber leveled and stacked with plenty of dry stickers so hopefully it dries straight.

Fixed a French drain on west side of cabin where I brought in fill dirt last year. Added a 4” tile in a sick then backfilled over it with crushed gravel.

Extended yard out to back drive and planted that. Sorry no pics of either.

Then I started framing in the roof section between the two sheds. I had bought two extra roof panels when I built the second wood shed the winter we bought this place. Plan was to always cover in between the two. Originally I thought it would be a great place for a wood splitter and hanging shovels and rakes. It is now going to become a “she shed” for the wife. She needs storage space for honey bee and chicken stuff. So I’ll enclose it and add some crushed gravel for a floor. Add an interior light and call it a day.

And I’ve been building axles quite regularly again on top of parts production. So very busy all around.


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[Flyin6]

I like that thing!

Great idea, and I need one myself, but my HOA would have a conniption fit...

[stlaser]

Don, this should make you happy. My newest neighbor the former f14 weapons backseater. I hooked him up with a firewood procurement specialist. So he’s been getting familiar with his ax……..

Notice it’s that really good ax that I like btw!




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[Flyin6]

Don, this should make you happy. My newest neighbor the former f14 weapons backseater. I hooked him up with a firewood procurement specialist. So he’s been getting familiar with his ax……..

Notice it’s that really good ax that I like btw!




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Good form too!
...far a navee guy

[Sammconn]

Don, this should make you happy. My newest neighbor the former f14 weapons backseater. I hooked him up with a firewood procurement specialist. So he’s been getting familiar with his ax……..

Notice it’s that really good ax that I like btw!




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Good form too!
...far a navee guy

Oh how I love me my Fiskars.
I did however break one on some stubborn birch.
It was also -40 which may have contributed.
But they are a nice axe.

[EL TATE]

I dislike underground LP tanks, always have and always will. The developer who built the cabin didn’t want to bring in enough fill & buried the tank too low. So now the lid or box will fill with water during the winter and spring wet season.

This is my second attempt to try and keep water out of it. I buried a drain pipe as low as I could yet still get fall on it to the ditch. The drain opening at the box on the outside at this level it is below the regulator and shut off valve inside the box. I then filled it with pea gravel on the drain side outside of green box to the surface. Finally I cut the soil around the whole thing out about 8” deep and sloped the soil around perimeter of box to the drain side. Finally I backfilled around box with pea gravel. My thought is any water around exterior should make its way thru pea gravel and towards drain. Fingers crossed


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may have to do this with my water meter. earlier this summer when i was deep watering the yard the box and the neighbor's box filled completely and started running over into the street. nice work sir

[stlaser]

I dislike underground LP tanks, always have and always will. The developer who built the cabin didn’t want to bring in enough fill & buried the tank too low. So now the lid or box will fill with water during the winter and spring wet season.

This is my second attempt to try and keep water out of it. I buried a drain pipe as low as I could yet still get fall on it to the ditch. The drain opening at the box on the outside at this level it is below the regulator and shut off valve inside the box. I then filled it with pea gravel on the drain side outside of green box to the surface. Finally I cut the soil around the whole thing out about 8” deep and sloped the soil around perimeter of box to the drain side. Finally I backfilled around box with pea gravel. My thought is any water around exterior should make its way thru pea gravel and towards drain. Fingers crossed


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may have to do this with my water meter. earlier this summer when i was deep watering the yard the box and the neighbor's box filled completely and started running over into the street. nice work sir

Well, fingers crossed this actually works

[stlaser]

Decided I should probably finish the exterior on the machine shop. The attached two car garage will be getting the wainscoting treatment next spring. In addition I will be staining it to match the cabin for now. It should be pretty close in color to the steel board and batton that I’ve been using on the big shop. That steel will be used on the machine shop too. If I don’t like the look of garage after I stain it I may pull off all of that pine board and batton and steel it as well. We shall see, atm I’m not that enthusiastic about pulling all that pine off and creating a lot more work for myself.


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