Front Door

Putting in a front door is one of those important psychological milestones in the process of building a cabin.  Being able to lock a front door is the point at which, at least in your own mind, you have a dwelling of your own.

Out of Hibernation - 2012

My cabin has awakened from it's long winter hibernation.  Apparently an eagle or large hawk tried to make a nest on my ridge log under cover of my roof.  Round logs make a poor nest foundation, as the pile of sticks on the ground indicates.  I can't wait to get up to my ridge log to clean up everything the eagle left behind.

More Pics - Inside

 

Lotsa Progress!!!

I am really scrambling to get my place dried in before serious winter hits.  We had 14 inches of snow 2 weeks ago, but most of that has melted off since.  Good thing.  The last two weeks have lots of visible progress on my cabin.  It seems like I spend days and weeks pushing and pushing for progress, and then it seems to come together all at once and lots of progress is made.  Below are the most recent pics.

No Life Without Water

My cabin is completely off the grid, and wells aren't feasible.  Putting a 3,000 gallon water tank in the basement is the way to go. 

More Windows

Windows! Finally!

Trudging slowly toward my goal of drying in the cabin before this winter.  Before I can insulate the gaps and chink, I need the doors and windows in.  I've taken my first steps towards that with this window.  I used 4 x 12 doug fir.  Love the look, but would not use doug fir again.  Way too heavy and unmanageable.

Suggestion to anyone at this stage:  Adjust your window heights so the tops and bottoms of your window openings fall in the gaps between logs.  Cutting horizontally through logs with all that rebar is worse than a root canal -- without novacaine.