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Offline red

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2006, 09:13:12 am »
looks good

nice when a project starts taking shape

can't wait to hear/see more

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2006, 09:17:52 am »
Iain,  Here is a view looking east from the MH shed which is about the same height as the finished cabin.  You can just see my saw shed to the left side of the picture that sets just on this side of the West Fork River.  The small section of road that is visible on the right side of the picture is on the other side of the river and the hill behind the road just goes straight up for about 600'.  The slope down the hill on this side of the river is quite a bit steeper that the picture shows.  In winter the sun does not break over that hill until 10:00 AM where the cabin will set.  

My Father and Grandfather orginally bought 3 acres here and then several of our family got together to buy an additional 23 acres.  We now have five houses and a catering hall on the property and my cabin will make six houses.  My childhood home sits about 200' to the left and out of frame of this picture and down close to the river.

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2006, 08:26:09 pm »
Seven courses of block went up today and the rest will go up tomorrow.  Then filling the block with steel and concrete and I'll be ready to bolt the sills in place.

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #23 on: May 23, 2006, 08:34:48 pm »
Looks good,keep the pictures coming.Looks like a good spot for a home.Enjoy it every day.
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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2006, 09:53:40 am »
Nice work on the shack errrrrr cabin errrr house errrrr  mansion   :D :D

How big of a water tank is that?  Looks to be about 2000 gallons correct?  That should last the family about 3 weeks before fills... ;D

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #25 on: May 26, 2006, 05:58:56 pm »
Its going up fast, this cabin!  You dont muck around do you Quinton.  You mentioned the weather - are you building this going into the dryer time of year?  Or is it just unseasonably wet?
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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #26 on: May 29, 2006, 07:58:01 am »
Not much progress on the cabin during the last few days.  Our next step is to fill the cement block posts with concrete, set the anchor bolts and attach the sills.  I orginally sawed the big timbers 1/4" oversize to allow for shrinkage and I've decided to re-saw the sills, posts and girts to exact sizes now that they are mainly dry.  We are setting the saw up on a concrete pad so it will be a few days before we can saw again.  We have over 3 yards of concrete to hand mix over the next few day, so no rest for the weary.

What a finish for the Indy 500 yesterday, eh?

Quinton
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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #27 on: June 02, 2006, 08:47:22 am »
I had hoped to have pictures of the sills up on the posts by now but cousin Rodney convinced me to wait a few more days to let the concrete in the post get a little stronger.
Since my last post we have filled the posts with concrete and set the sill bolts, cleaned the slab and applied two coats of sealer, and got the sills to size and ready to go up.



Now I have to come up with a rig to lift the sills into place...here is what I'm thinking. With one of these on each pier it should be easy.  I may get a couple small chain hoists instead of B&T.  Suggestions?


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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #28 on: June 02, 2006, 06:49:01 pm »
OK, I know this ain't much, but I'm excited.  After spending much of the day getting together a lifing device, we finally got three sills up and then the rain started.  But we'll have clear skys tomorrow and then the rest of them will go up. Yee-ha!  8)


 
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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #29 on: June 02, 2006, 08:07:20 pm »
Glad to see you are making progress.
Did your design of a lift work?

That front end loader tractor in the background won't lift those sills?  Or at least give you a good assist? 

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #30 on: June 02, 2006, 08:36:09 pm »
Hey Beenthere,
Yeh, the lift worked great.  I mounted a clutch type boat wench to a 4x4 with a turning block at the top and horzontal 2x6s top and bottom clamped to the blocks with bar clamps.   
The front loader will lift 8 or 10 of those sills at a time but getting them to the blocks is a whole nuther thing.  The slope is a whole lot steeper than it looks in the picture.  I can place a few of them with the loader but the lift works fine and is quick to move.

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #31 on: June 03, 2006, 06:08:53 pm »
We would have had the sills done today but my LT15 decided to shed a sprocket.  By the time we got it fixed we got two more sills up and it started raining.

Oh well, I don't mind setting under the shed listening to the rain on the metal, sipping a cool one and waiting for the charcoal to get hot.  There's always tomorrow.


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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #32 on: June 04, 2006, 05:53:37 pm »
Nice work Qweaver.Really enjoying the pictures keep 'em coming!

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #33 on: June 06, 2006, 10:32:13 pm »
Here are the latest pics.  We're making progress, thanks in many way to help and advice from members of this forum. 


Our threesom


Will it fit?


Ah, finally


Now, just 500 more boards and we'll have a dance floor
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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #34 on: June 06, 2006, 10:52:23 pm »
Looks great, Qweaver!  Thanks for taking the time to post the pics!   8)
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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #35 on: June 06, 2006, 10:58:36 pm »
Qweaver,  I really like your thread. I've always wanted to live in the mountains. Having built most of my log home myself, I know the satisfaction that you must feel when you stand on that hill and see what you have accomplished each day.  ;D   8) 8)

How are you attaching your subfloor banding boards to your beams and how are you joining your consecutive runs of floor joists? ???

Thanks for letting us have a glimpse into your jobsite.

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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #36 on: June 08, 2006, 06:17:51 pm »
The latest,

All the joists are up and all but three pieces of blocking are nailed in.  Can you find the missing pieces? :D  My knees are a mess from crawling around putting blocking in today. 

I guess we'll start on subfloor tomorrow. I'm un-decided about whether to put down temporary flooring or just go ahead and nail it in. It will certainly get wet several times before the roof is on.



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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #37 on: June 09, 2006, 07:54:49 am »
Very nice! On our last house I used a floor sheathing called advantech if I remember right. It was supposed to hold up to being wet and really did a much better job at that than any other I'd used before.
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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #38 on: June 09, 2006, 09:41:20 am »
Looks great!   8)
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Re: Building a cabin in the mountains
« Reply #39 on: June 10, 2006, 11:33:09 pm »
Today was another milestone as we got enough sub-floor nailed down to give us working room to put up the first post.  That's one up, 12 to go.

The posts are 7"x7"x10'6" but they seem smaller than that in the picture.


 
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