No nails, or hours or scratches, or cuts of wood can today measured in but the hard work from everyone putting in more then enough time to make sure that everything is exactly correct to the 1/16^th of an inch.

In the past couple of days things have been moving on fairly quickly, we are ahead of schedule and keep on cruising.  Thus far we have all four walls up and almost completelysheathed, just a few parts at the way top left to do.   The inside North and East walls are framed and the framing for the bathroom is complete as well.  The greatest achievement for the day would be place and securing the main top beam for the roof structure.  I started this morning placing sheathing on the West side wall with Brittany, we completed as much as we could do while on the scaffolding but the cabin is higher then both of us can reach even with added high.  Then we moved on to cutting the 2×8 for the loft floor.  After having a great lunch under a neat by tree we got right back to it, working on the interior framing for the East side wall, and finishing the day off with the framing for the bathroom.  The day has been one of the longest thus far but definitely did not feel like it since everyone was busy on the tasks that needed to get finished.  Now we can get a good start on the things that we need to do for tomorrow.

 Sheathing South exterior side  Sheathing North interior side  Sheathing North exterior side

In hours worked? In the number of 12’ 2 x 4 that had to be cut to be actually 12’? In the amount of times you will cut one piece of wood to fit around a column?  In the battle wounds from working?  Or in the satisfaction of being done?

Well to answer that burning question it would be 12 hours, 102 12’ 2×4, 6 cuts, 9 minor scratches, and the price to seeing how far we have gone in three days is absolutely priceless.

With the direction of our fearless leaders we were kept focused on the tasks on hand and all worked diligently on making sure that things got completed in an accurate manner. Out in the hot sun Brittany, Lyle, Paul, and I got the pleasure of cutting 12’ 2×4 for the vertical supports in the walls.  While we were waiting for the framing to be finished for the south side door Paul and I tried to cut a piece for the flooring around the East side column and ended up having to cut the thing 6 times to fit in the not so square placement, while each times claiming it was going to be the final time at the saw.  By the end of the day even though it was a very long day, it was also a very productive day.  In a nutshell; we got thesouth and west side all framed up and built up to the top headers, all the columns are in place, level, and correct, and the east side wall is all framed and half way in place.  We bleed just a little, and yes there was definitely sweat on every bit of everyone shirts, but there was absolutely no tears for the accomplishment of the day was far to great to have anything else matter besides the extraordinary building that is being built with our hands, and the result of three days of very hard work.

    South and East side wall                     End of day 3 

It wouldn’t be the number of sheathing that was placed on the floor structure but rather the number of pieces of wood that would fit on the shelves made for the storage compartment.

The first day was filled with an abundance of wood, wood and more wood.  After, we had the first meeting for the day we got to work in our groups, John, Luke and I, got the pleasure of doing  a whole bunch of odd jobs.  Our first task of the day was to build a table for the chop saw, which  sounds to be simple but given our first thought was to use a pallet for the top it was more challenging then it needed to be.  The problem with using the pallet was that it made the structure of the table really unstable but we figured it out and the table works just find with the chop saw attached.  After the little job of the table we got the pleasure of unloading the large Budget truck full of wood.  However, we needed to make sure that the storage container everything was going into would have enough room to hold everything in an organized way.  So first we built a shelving unit with three parts to it so that each type of wood could have it’s own area, the tools could be organized when put away, and there would be a place to put our tool belts when we were done.  Then, we made an assembly line and unloaded the truck into the container and everything fit in its designate place and looked very well designed