MadJack
Silver Member
This is the new house I started building in May 2008. It is 28 x 36 one and two-thirds floors. It was designed and revised over the last ten years, still isn't perfect but it was all "out-of-pocket" and sweat!
No power lines, only a phone wire until a new [more] local cell tower goes up. Sat TV (Dish is the best deal $$$-wise here) and internet by dsl/phone line.
I spent 8 months (days off and weekends) cutting over 18,000bf of logs off the 125 acre woodlot. A local guy came and picked them up on his pulp-truck, sawed them and delivered the boards back on site for .25bf. Some of the boards made the trip back to him for T&G, which now cover most of the interior walls.
Power=115v Honda EU3000 (started with an EB3000), big triple baot charger and two Trojan 475aH 6v batteries. We should be installing 10- 235watt solar panels and the Outback inverter/charge controller in early Spring along with 6 more of the same batteries.
No power lines, only a phone wire until a new [more] local cell tower goes up. Sat TV (Dish is the best deal $$$-wise here) and internet by dsl/phone line.
I spent 8 months (days off and weekends) cutting over 18,000bf of logs off the 125 acre woodlot. A local guy came and picked them up on his pulp-truck, sawed them and delivered the boards back on site for .25bf. Some of the boards made the trip back to him for T&G, which now cover most of the interior walls.
Power=115v Honda EU3000 (started with an EB3000), big triple baot charger and two Trojan 475aH 6v batteries. We should be installing 10- 235watt solar panels and the Outback inverter/charge controller in early Spring along with 6 more of the same batteries.