Thursday, June 30, 2016

Thar be dragons here!

that apparently can climb ladders...

more holes

Truck fuel line had mouse chewed hole.  Took me a while to figure out why the truck wouldn't run on veg. 

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Split a Log

So there was this big piece of log laying where I was hoping to have a flatter space, so I decided to try and lift it up and get it out of there.  Turns out it was bigger than I expected:
 So I got it flipped over - it was a slab from a tree with one side charred from some old forest fire -and decided if I could split it, I could move the two pieces easily. So I got my wedges and my hammers:
 And after much pounding and hacking, I got it split.   someday, I'll put these pieces on the sawmill and make some lumber from them.

Design Mistakes in my cob house

So, I have long meant to create a list of mistakes I made when designing the finishings on our house.  Now that we've lived in it for a ...