I have been fighting a cold all week but could not sit around the house today. So I went down to the cabin today. Feel like I am paying for it now…
So for the cabin this week we : • installed the larch in the loft area • Used danish oil on the 4×6 posts (two coats so far – I figure 1 or 2 more) – Next spring I will sand down the walls and apply the same finish there also • Started building my battery box. I should finish it next week. I will have photos then. • First floor ceiling has now had one coat of mud applied. Might not get to much further on this this year. • Installed some freebee carpeting in the upstairs bedroom. Thanks Rob
Some things left this year : • Finish the upstairs walls • Finish the battery box • Clean up and finish painting the first floor • Put another coat of oil on the 4×6 posts and stain other wood work upstairs • look for a dining room set on craigslist • Find a propane cook stove for the kitchen • Install one more cabinet we have that we are going to use as a island • Sand down the stairs • Put up more firewood
Didn’t have time to turkey hunt and given that I did not feel well perhaps that is best… but we did see 10 or so turkeys at the bottom of the field (200 yards away)… these seem to be the same birds we keep on seeing in the area… Hopefully they will stay in the area. Probably 8 of them are yearlings so we are hoping they stay in the area for good.
So I started out today doing some turkey hunting… unfortunately I was five minutes behind the five that came through… maybe next week….
On the cabin we basically finished the hanging the drywall. We were short a little piece. My F-I-L thinks he has a small piece back at his place. The areas we dry walled today were under the loft and the bedroom along with the half walls in the loft.
We also sanded the exposed 4×6’s larch posts. I have to figure out what I am going to use to finish these still…
I painted a older set of fireplace tools… I have found that high temp grill paint polished looks great.
We also picked up a couple of sets of brackets for stacking some of our firewood. We setup one of them on the east side of the porch. We are going to setup the other on the west side later.
Seeing as we are almost done with construction I finally picked up some replacement dewalt batteries… For the price of these that might as well be crack… We had one dewalt battery and a cheaper Roybi set. The dewalt is so much better but the batteries are just so expensive… So now between my father-in-law and me we have 5… Just in time to be almost done 🙂
So once we get the drywall muded the last real task for this year is going to be hanging the larch on the upstairs wall. Then we will finish painted the floor… then just enjoy it until spring… that will be nice
I’m using up some extra vacation time so I headed down to the cabin for half a day. I will be going back down tomorrow but had to come back so my wife could take care of some things this afternoon. So in the half day I was up we :
• Installed a new gasket on the stove door • installed the last two posts for the catwalk railing • Installed some bracing under the catwalk across from each post to keep them from twisting if someone leans over the edge • built the other half wall into the loft area
The last picture was a camera phone photo sent from my father-in-law of the turkeys that came through after I left. Next week Tomorrow is turkey season… wonder if they will be around 🙂
• painted some of the first floor • installed rear storm door • put first coat of mud on kitchen & dinning area ceiling • started the second floor half walls • cleaned up more storm damaged trees from when Ike came through and knocked a couple of poplar’s east of the cabin down we have been looking to get rid of. • installed heat shield behind stove
I also put a video up on youtube… I’ll do another one next week
We have fire!!! We got the fireplace installed and running this week… getting the stove pipe installed was a PITA… the output pipe on the stove was exactly 6 inches… Getting the 6” stove pipe in required a bit of persuasion. Some other things we did :
• built the platform for the stove • received more lumber for the upstairs half wall and wood for the upstairs loft area walls • routed some of the lap joints from the above lumber • insulated the electrical room with 2” celotex – I using the extra to make a insulated battery box for next week • split the maple we cut up last week
I also have some pictures of two of my birthday gifts. The first one is a stove top oven. And the second one is a triple kerosene light. Both were hand made by the Amish man who built our stainless steel wood stove chimney. Right now we have him making a stainless wall protector (should have photos next week).
The pictures of the buildings on stilts are from the valley near our place. We were in the area and I had always want to take a picture of them. The area floods regularly (notice the walk up outhouse :). At one place near here I have seen people park their cars at the road and canoe back to their house… glade I do not have those issues.
I am curious to how old that trailer is… looks to be very “vintage”
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