Finished digging...

Need to bring the mower down.



Very hot today. Finished digging the pier footer holes today. Fortunately I brought a cheap canopy to get a bit of shade. I will call the building inspector tomorrow to inspect the depth of the holes and hopefully I can start making the piers next weekend if the weather is good.




I pass this processing plant every time I go down to the property. The pictures don't do it justice. There are thousands of logs waiting to be chipped. I think they use this for OSB type plywood sheets.



The chipper sends the chips out to the rail cars via conveyor.

Bought the Trailer...

Drove all over the place and finally found a trailer that met my needs. Its a 7000 lb Trailer, 6' 4" x 16' with dual axles and electric brake. Would have liked to get the mesh all around, but I think this one will do.

Loaded Garage...

After loading the kit into the Garage

Cabin arrived...

Trucking firm made much better time than he thought and wondered if he could deliver early. Came home from work and he was waiting.

CW (owner/driver) was kind enought to help unload. My roomate Cliffe, and my wife helped as we brought 10,000 lbs off the trailer and stacked it in the drive. Another friend Marty showed up after work and was not dressed to do much heavy stuff, but helped clean the garage to get ready to restack it.



We started at 5pm and CW was able to drive away around 7pm. It took anouther two hours to restack in the garage and try to get the parts in some kind of order to remove as I build it. I can't believe how tired we were after finishing.

Mud, Mud, Mud....

It's rained for the past week or so and my wife and I came down to the property to check out the damage. It was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but we did have lots of trouble getting the MiniVan back up the hill.

I was going to finish the post holes, but they were full of water. As I bailed one out, it just kept filling from all the water in the soil. I guess I will take them down to at least 24 inches and make the bottom of the hole much wider than the 8" diameter concrete post.

Kristina brought down alot of the dog kennel runs she has been collecting over the past few years. All the dogs came and they had the time of their life! Here are a few pictures.



The picture above is the eastern end of the property and where the house will eventually be built. It is relatively flat and the septic field will be down the hill a bit. Everything looks so different with all the leaves on the trees.




This is a picture walking back to the cabin site. You can see the cleared area and the stading water in the bottom of the frame. I really need to get the tractor soon so I can do some grading. All the water from the property seems to find the driveway and run down the hill. Stopped on the way home and looked at the Kubota Tractor. Might have to get the B26 to tackle all the things that need to be done.




Kristina wanted me to get a picture of Opal so her breeder can see how pretty and refined she is.... (Brandi...she doesn't always look like this)

The cabin is coming on Thursday......hope it doesn't rain as forecast.

Cabin is shipping soon...

Haven't had much cooperation with the weather for the past few weekends and it looks bad for this weekend too. The cabin has been paid for and will be arriving at my house on the morning of the May 15th. I am hiring a few people to help me unload it. There are two skids weighing 5000 lbs each and three 6"x6"x20' timbers. I will be the first delivery and there are approximately 40,000 lbs on the 48' trailer... With that much weight, there is no way it is going to back up into my driveway and ruin a recent paving job. Its only 75 feet from the road to the garage and we should be able to unload it in about an hour.

Depending on the weather, I may run down and finish the footer holes and see if I can get them inspected. Looks like it may be time to buy a trailer....