First I designed it.
Then I cut them to length.
Then I drilled the holes and bolted it together.
I still need one more crossbar and a handle for control. Plus spacers to keep the blade from hitting. But here it is with the electric chainsaw attached.
Not as fancy as this $140 one, but mine only cost $10 in nuts and bolts.
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I ran out of long boards for the roof, but the rest of the frame is pretty good. Right now there are poles holding the roofs center up. When I’m done the roof will have trusses so the entire inside will be clear of supports. I need to make door flaps on each end. Should be a nice work area and tool storage. I also need more duct tape to strengthen the sharp corners.
And seeing it nearly completed makes me think of covering it with clear plastic and also use it as a greenhouse. But I think it might be too shady.
UPDATE: It is finished except the door flaps.
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I have planned and started a couple projects. First is the tarp shed mentioned earlier. The first timbers are in place.
Next, I am going to make a portable chainsaw sawmill. Something like this.
Only with my own plan using just these two shelf posts and some bolts.
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There are some things I don’t want to keep in the the cabin. But many of these things are better not being left outside. My solution? A tarp shed. I am building an about 10ft by 8ft shed on the deck. I am mostly building it from poles harvested on my land. When the frame is finished I will cover it with a 16 by 20 tarp I already have. The shed will hold my storage bin, things like lawn chairs and shelves for other item. There should still be room to have a small workshop for my various projects.
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After several snowfalls I realized having the solar panels on the roof wasn’t a good idea. The snow and ice just build up on them. But, since the sun is so low in the southern sky I can get just as much light on the south side wall of the cabin. And the eves keep the snow and ice off.
Plus, from a distance they look like windows.…
Today is the first real snow of the year. We have had some snow flurries in October but this is the first to really accumulate.
The temperature is down in the 20s at night. In a couple days it should be in the teens.…
I don’t prepare a huge amount of firewood. There are plenty of downed branches I can access all winter. I do keep a couple weeks worth available.
The small branches are easier to cut up with no splitting and burn nice in my small wood stove.…
I noticed that as the sun got lower and the leaves fell off the trees more light was getting on the south side of the cabin roof than was getting to the clearing. So I moved the solar panels to the roof. I may angle one more East and the other West to get the best coverage. Another plus is much shorter cables which means more voltage gets to the batteries.
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Since Lily keeps pulling off her bandages I got her some booties. She walks like something sticky is on her feet. I think she’ll like them in the winter. Her foot is pretty much completely healed. She gets the stitches out Wednesday.
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Lily runs like a cheetah and leaps like a dolphin. Unfortunately there are some hazards in the woods not even counting the branches and rocks. There are leftover pipes and other metal pieces from long gone oil wells. Anyway, something got her and she cut the web between her toes and part of the pad on her back right foot. It was bleeding pretty bad and looked like just a bandage wouldn’t do, so I took her to the vet. She needed stitches and spent the night there. Amazing how lonely the cabin is for even one night now that I’m used to her being here. Now her foot is all bandage up.
She can walk on it but it doesn’t seem very comfortable. She gets the stitches removed in 2 weeks. The bandage can probably come off in a week if it doesn’t fall off first.…
