Decked Over, Tarred, & Back Filled

 

Final work before the winter set in. 

Sill is on and Carrying Beam Up!

Seth and I put a double plated pressure treated sill and carrying beam up this weekend.

Our Logging Equipment

The mill houses the the woodmizer, planer, and tractor.  Its a 24' by 16' cantilevered design to hold up the roof using 4 10" posts. .  

                                           

This is an Oliver 550 where we reverse engineered the hydraulics and made a tap (prototyped using 3d printing) so we could attach a log grapple to the bucket.   It works a little better than we had expected. 

This is the woodmizer sawmill.  We can sut up to 21' foot log lengths. 

This is the planer, the blades are out and new belts being created (out of Pennsylvania).  It was created at the height of mechanical engineering.  

This is what makes this planer special, it has a track roller consisting of sections that weight 50 lbs each.  It can plane a 27" by 27" beam that reaquires this type of friction to push it through.   

The Forms are In!

The forms are in for the foundation.   So much work to get to this point using a backhoe.   We dug the hole twice since we hit ledge at 5 feet.  We removed a rock so big, the initial survey documented it thinking it would never move!    You can see it in the lower left of the first picture.  9' by 4' by 5'.  

Footings and Floor for Log Home.

 The land has been cleared and the celler hole dug!   The footings are finally in and foundation walls ready to be set.   Seth and I spent alot of time getting crushed rock inside footings for floor.   

Road Improvements to Entrance

 

This is the first pass at the road base for the entrance driveway.