MJR
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Here is my summer project. The main difficulty with this project is my hunting land is a three hour round trip from my house. When you can only work on something one day a week and throw the weather into the equation, things move slow… I dropped the trees on the Saturdays in May. They are hedge row thinnings. With the help of a metal detector, I did not hit any fencing and the Ash was on a fence row! Norway spruce was used for the framing and all other is Ash. I used an ATV to drag the logs to the edge of the fields and then used the Suburban to drag them to the mill/build site (about a ½ mile). I started milling in June. I moved the LL24 every Saturday. Keeping the mill level was a chore. This mill does not like to be moved. It would have made life a lot easier to leave the mill there, but I was worried someone would walk off with it. Mid July we started to put the footers in. I told each one of my kids they had to dig one footer each. Each one of them, ages 7, 8, and 9, was able to get it down to about 2’. This was a huge help. A generator was used for the power tools. Well, this little cabin is not done, but it is done for this year. I ran out of time. The OSB board is quick. The local outlet store has it for 4$. It makes a good barrier layer for the cluster flies. It is well insulated and water poof. In the spring I will put in a toilet, (water will be collected from the roof with a gravity feed system) and the walls will be done with TG cherry or cedar. I can do this over the winter. On the other end of my land I am thinking about building a small log cabin (his/hers?) next summer…
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