Strawbale Album Part 3. Setting Posts & Beams
Mar 18, 2017
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Part 3
IMG_0242 Leveling off the posts... Ready for the saw almost Some of the scenery heading down to Arkansas to visit friend Here is one of our nice choice cedars, This wll be a 17 foot beam 8x8 or so IMG_0103 IMG_0233 Something is very wrong with this picture of our kittens and... IMG_0239 We store them in monica's mom's root cellar From forest to beginning walls! IMG_0329_2 Visitor! IMG_0333 IMG_0309 IMG_0317 IMG_0204 The wide opening allows for logs to be rolled in or pulled in from the side while the tractor can exit out the front Fresh black walnut 1 x 12 Beautiful Cedar Grain.jpg I usually save a slice or two for decorative use later Dubby helping with prepping one of the cedar beams I anchor an old tripod with cement to hold a fixed photo spot to document the house progress London Road about a mile from our home. Note the _street signs_! Local Sheriff's name.. We gravel the floor. It will be an earthen floor... Cedar grain up close IMG_0240 IMG_0154 Third kitten Calli! IMG_0310 IMG_0218 Lag bolting the beams together IMG_0246 Our first post is about to be set. This is a momentous moment is which I am as yet pretty clueless as to what I am doing! April 2011 center post number 1 It was really hard to scrape up enough woof straight and long enough for floor joists IMG_0250 Them thar's our street signs! Placing beams! I made forks out of metal tubing..heated the ends in the fire to make them slide into a welded in pipe socket in the bucket IMG_0208 IMG_0238 Red head in place I decide to do a little log wall thing on the west corners for bracing and wall fill both. We strip off the bark. IMG_0318 IMG_0205 IMG_0197 First loft floor joist in place. I opt to use logs rather than milled lumber A quick shed for storing wood trimmings later to be used for wall decoration siding etc Part of our potato harvest. Yukon Golds.. IMG_0177 IMG_0209 Loft logs. I will need more..too wide apart IMG_0229 This little fawn hung around our property that year.jpg Later I think we found the remains IMG_0156 We place metal roofing temporarily over the loft floors so as to have some cover for materials etc Filing in holes in the first run of foundation IMG_0349 IMG_0217 IMG_0175 4 posts up. Reluctant to cut them down to size. Not sure what size to cut them to. Ok! I stuck some tree things up.... The expensive metal bottom braces attached to the cement First hardwood center beam up.jpg This is for the kid's loft Monica's niece and nephew move into the area too! Emmi is in costume because she works at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company IMG_0182 IMG_0180 IMG_0352
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