zogger
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Great looking oak logs there!
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Great looking oak logs there!
Zogger, that is EXACTLY what I was going to say!!!!!!! I guess great minds think alike!
mainewoods
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The cabin is coming along nice Mike. Looks solid and well thought out. It will all be worth it in the end, what a great spot!
Thanks Clint.
I'm the "dreamer" who envisioned it, and my brother (MechanicMatt's Dad) is the PE who keeps it structurally safe and my friend Harold is the Carpenter with the know how to make it come out nice. And MecanicMatt and others have contributed labor along the way. I just wish more of it was available earlier in the year. We will really have to push to close it up before the weather, and up there you also have to make it "porcupine proof", those destructive animals eat almost anything, including plywood & treated wood. Most of our structures have either metal or concrete board down low.
They even chewed through the tire on a skidder that was on the property North of me, and ate the break lines and radiator hoses on a vehicle that was on the property to the South.
There is not much worse than finding a hole in the side of your cabin and Porkys inside when you arrive. They are filthy, destructive animals that eat almost anything and piss & crap on everything else. I actually closed a hole on my old cabin by screwing a piece of Bluestone over it. For some reason they will want to eat one section, but won't touch the next. I left about 15 2X4s up there. They only chewed one of them, and every time we go up it is chewed a little more.
I'm the "dreamer" who envisioned it, and my brother (MechanicMatt's Dad) is the PE who keeps it structurally safe and my friend Harold is the Carpenter with the know how to make it come out nice. And MecanicMatt and others have contributed labor along the way. I just wish more of it was available earlier in the year. We will really have to push to close it up before the weather, and up there you also have to make it "porcupine proof", those destructive animals eat almost anything, including plywood & treated wood. Most of our structures have either metal or concrete board down low.
They even chewed through the tire on a skidder that was on the property North of me, and ate the break lines and radiator hoses on a vehicle that was on the property to the South.
There is not much worse than finding a hole in the side of your cabin and Porkys inside when you arrive. They are filthy, destructive animals that eat almost anything and piss & crap on everything else. I actually closed a hole on my old cabin by screwing a piece of Bluestone over it. For some reason they will want to eat one section, but won't touch the next. I left about 15 2X4s up there. They only chewed one of them, and every time we go up it is chewed a little more.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Uncle Mike, Ive been starring at that pic for a while, I can't believe the progress you and Harold made. Its awesome. Boss was out sic today, but tomorrow ill try and get off for next friday. The 24th. Got your amsoil, ill bring it to the GTG.
Thanks Matt,
Not bad for a couple of guys over 60!!!! We had a hard frost on Sunday morning up there, you could not go on the roof till 10:00.
Not bad for a couple of guys over 60!!!! We had a hard frost on Sunday morning up there, you could not go on the roof till 10:00.
Wow that's bad, porkys here only girdle pine trees.
I guess I should plant some Pine Trees, don't have any up there. They seem to like to girdle Hard Maple and Beech also, and I think they also like Hemlock.
Porcupine=piikkisika (pronounced "peek-a-seek-a", translated "piney pig") in Finnish. There's a Finnish sauna song that we sing and in one of the verses the song writer shoots the porky out of the tree with his shotgun. I think the original verse has the porky living underneath the sauna building.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Finnish ehh? No wonder you love the fiskars so much. I'm a fan boy of there's too. Sold my uncle and father and bro-inlaw on them too.
My dad was 7/8 Finn and so is my wife. I'm a Heinz 57 with darker complexion but my kids show Scandinavian all the way.
I didn't believe the Fiskars hype until I used one....but we won't go there LOL
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Ask my Uncle, I brought one up to hunting camp one year. I don't think he has TOUCHED his old maul since. But hey, every body has there own flavor of ice cream, I prefer fiskars.
With the banter on here about the Big Ox I may be tempted to get one of them....maybe Fiskars can design a knock off....
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Geez, now im gonna have to go read that thread. I got a big old steel handled orange triangle and a fiskars, not much they can't handle. sadly i only grab ole' orange when one of my nephews is helping me split and they NEVER put down the fiskars.
Is there going to be a demonstration at Spike's GTG about how it's possible to shave facial hair with a properly sharpened Fiskars?
I've used many different splitting mauls over the last 40 + years, and the Fiskars is the best hand held splitting device that I have found, and I got it for $12.
Amazon had it on sale for $42, I had never used Amazon before, so they offered me a $30 credit if I signed up for their credit card. I did. Have not used their card since, but I love my $12 Fiskars! I don't see it at $42 any more either.
Amazon had it on sale for $42, I had never used Amazon before, so they offered me a $30 credit if I signed up for their credit card. I did. Have not used their card since, but I love my $12 Fiskars! I don't see it at $42 any more either.
Glad to see you had a team of help !
Nice series of pics in your gallery .
Keep them interested , it hopefully keeps them out of trouble later in life LOL
Keep them interested , it hopefully keeps them out of trouble later in life LOL
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