Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days

   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days
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#101  
Lol! That's a good one! Rereading my post, I can see how you would think that. :laughing:
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days
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Day 23

Came home from work today and noticed this sign on the road leading down to the building site:

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Could they have actually delivered and stood up the foundation today?

Nah, but they did drop off 6 loads of gravel, so we must be getting close!

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   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #103  
This is going great!
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #104  
That's some good looking gravel :)

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   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days
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Spoke to the builder and here's the plan for next week:

Walls coming Monday
Plumber Tuesday
Pour slab Friday
Start framing the following Monday
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #106  
Nice! Will keep watching closely.
 
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sodamo said:
That's some good looking gravel :)

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For some reason this struck me as funny. Here we are on a website admiring gravel?!? Some could think that was a little strange.

By the way, this thread is amazing. Great job.

MoKelly
 
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pclausen said:
Spoke to the builder and here's the plan for next week:

Walls coming Monday
Plumber Tuesday
Pour slab Friday
Start framing the following Monday
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Keep it coming Pete, I am already pulling my hair out! Looks like things are going good. LUTT
 
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Sure Lutt! Here you go!

Day 24

The nice looking gravel :D has been leveled and is now ready for the walls to be set on it.

The piles are gone!

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A nice thick base in the basement:

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Loaded up the rest of the cut logs for the final run to the mill. They fit just perfect. Was "only" a 14,120 lbs load though.

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He snagged it up in a single pinch and dropped it right onto the "hopper":

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I then went back and loaded the junk hardwood logs that nobody wants and transported it the 0.5 miles to my place (no, I would not dream of driving a load like that on a public road with a single strap!) There was more than I thought and I still didn't quite get everything. I'll clean up the rest of the pile over the weekend.

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   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #110  
Pete, you got her looking good. Thanks for the time and effort to post pics. I hope you truck is doing okay after the recent work you had to do on it. The trailer and log cradle also look like there doing well for ya.LUTT
 
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