This weekend was another epic adventure. It was a three day weekend thanks to Labor Day so we had an extra day to toil... Alexs parents came up to help us again and we effectively beat them up. This weekend is best told in pictures, especially since it is all starting to blur in my very sore head.
I believe that these pictures are not in Chronological order of any form so here is the general rundown: Saturday= clearing land and chainsawing, Sunday= Laying out the 24 x 24 deck outline and choosing locations for pillars, and digging holes for the rocks. Monday= moving large amounts of rocks and leveling them.
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| Alex and his dad admiring a hole they are digging for a rock. |
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| Alex maneuvering the tractor to bring in the rocks. |
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| The behemoth finally in the bucket and ready for relocation. |
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| Another rock waiting for relocation. |
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| Alex hanging pushing off the tree to try and load the rock. Notice that neither foot is actually on the ground in this picture... |
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| More pushing. |
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| A break to play with the cats inside. |
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| Alex tickling Noodle. |
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| Ha, Alex's new raincoat a gift from his mother. He also has the matching pants. |
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| Just some of the wood we cleared out of the yurt site. This stuff is all waiting to be chopped into firewood. |
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| A few of the logs that we didn't saw up yet, these are going to be the load bearing parts of the platform. |
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| We did need to carry them out of the way so that we could start laying out the outline of the platform. |
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| I believe Alex is attacking a stump with a shovel. |
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| Anna learning how to use the pulp hooks to drag logs. |
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| It was still quite hard to drag since you only use one hand. |
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| Alex demonstrating how to use two pulphooks to carry logs. |
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| This is actually significantly easier then the dragging method as long as the log is short enough that your arms can reach both ends. |
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| A break from log dragging to take a photo. |
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| Alex and his mom eating breakfast on Sunday, Spinach and cheese omlettes (yuck) |
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| My breakfast. This used to be a dozen donuts. |
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| Showing off my mad chainsaw skills. I am actually quite good at the chainsaw if you ignore the fact that I don't have the arm strength to start the stupid thing. |
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| Alex sawing down the stumps so that they will be hidden under the platform |
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| Alex's mom raking the forest floor so that we have a nice clean home. |
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| Trying to obtain a "square" and falling miserably. My opinion who cares if it is square just toss that shit down and nail it in place. |
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| I was overruled and we spent about 3 hours laying out the lines, measuring, and making things level. I'm still not quite sure why but I suppose they had there reasons. |
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| Joanne laying lines. |
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| Anna and Jasper sitting outside the box. We had given up trying to help and were reduced to shredding leaves. |
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| We are very skilled at leaf ripping. This might be the longest Jasper and I have ever spent together. |
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| And the hole digging commences. |
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| Alex shoveling dirt out of our hole. We needed to dig seven 2 ft deep holes for the pillars. |
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| The center ring all notched and ready to go, This is actually from a while ago but I never took a photo of it. Alex did all the notching by hand. |
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| It looks like a fancy cog wheel. |
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| Demonstration of how the rafters will work. |
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| His mom and dad were very impressed. |
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| More shots of the tactor and rocks. We spent 3 hours moving the rocks just into the site. |
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| I think your tractors sexy... |
Wow...you got a lot done! When does the actual setting up of the yurt take place? Is it something that takes several days, or will you be in it the day that you start it? Have you ordered your stove/oven yet? (You did say you were going to have a real oven, didn't you)?
ReplyDeleteThe actual setting up can't occur until we get the stupid (very very stupid) platform built. Alex and I still have one rock to put in place, of course it is the largest rock. We had to stop on Monday because it started to pour on us.
ReplyDeleteOnce that is done it will take about a full day to set up the yurt, the roof still needs to be finished but we will toss the fabric over and will start living in the yurt before the roof is completely done.
We are going to have a real oven, I found one that still has a pilot light so we won't need electricity to use it. We will order it as soon as the yurt is up and should get it in about 2 weeks. It is going to be one of the mini 20" apartment ovens.
Then we will also have a wood stove in the center of the yurt for heat. There is still plenty to do if you want to come roll rocks with us!