Strawbale Album Part 3. Setting Posts & Beams

Part 3

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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

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Something is very wrong with this picture of our kittens and...

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We store them in monica's mom's root cellar

From forest to beginning walls!

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Visitor!

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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

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Third kitten Calli!

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Lag bolting the beams together

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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

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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

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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.

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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..

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Loft logs. I will need more..too wide apart

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This little fawn hung around our property that year.jpg Later I think we found the remains

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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

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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

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