building our retirement cabin

[triangel]

I am posting pictures as I find them in the vast digital maze that they are stored in, so some are not necessarily in order that they were made, please bear with me, These pictures were us putting in the windows with my old 730 case. Special thanks to my brother-inlaw for being brave enough to ride the bucket and holding the windows

 

[EddieWalker]

Yes the cistern is a fiberglass vessel designed to hold water . Since there is no public water available we have to haul drinking water from the nearest town with a tank that fits in our truck. ...

This is the part that I didn't know about. Now it makes more sense to me. I never imagined that there where places in Canada that you couldn't get water from a well.

 

[triangel]

The next pictures are of the stairway, I used milled 8x8 spruce for the beams, 4x4 oak that I had laying around ,planed them and they had a real nice finish to them , I used 2x12 fir for the stairs that I purchased at the lumber store along with tamarack rails that I used for the upstairs railing, I purchased a lathe and lathed all the ends top and bottom . Not shown in these pictures I put 1" rebar for stair rails drilled into the handrails and beams and painted black.