KatahdinMaineHomestead

Dave and I got the sawmill up on to the slab without any mishaps. It's almost ready for milling.

The mill slab is poured and ready for the mill. Ye Ol' cement mixer worked good.

There's now a place for the saw mill and the form is built to pour a cement base.

The original retaining piece that holds the drum in the yolk fell off during transport. This is some Yankee ingenuity.

Snow will be here before we know it unfortunately. Now's the time to cut things back and clean up trees.

Yuht....after I'm done is when Dave shows up and says, "There's a funnel with a hose". Yo'k...well, I didn't know that. I still got the job done.

There's electricity in the shed. Oh yeahhhh...

I ordered a SunGold system. Two weeks later it wasn't shipped so I started asking questions. They were marketing and collecting $ for items that they didn't have for sale. Then they were trying to get customers to spend hundreds more to buy replacement components to complete the order. Here's the story with emails back and forth. They tried to get me to spend $300 more after spending THOUSANDS. NOPE! I ordered the breaker and battery cables from www.altestore.com I will recommend them. Some of their products are pricey, but some things are on point. Over the years that's where I've got some panels, inverters, controllers and cables. They have their crap together, IMO.

In Maine a common saying is "Gotcha wood up yet?", meaning... do you have you're firewood in?

The chipper blades were dull so I got them sharpened. Today I installed them so now it's back in operation.

Making a clearing for an off grid cabin. This took lots of tree dropping and chipping. We gained some logs and lots of firewood.

I started this opening last year. This year it's been a pick away project due to priorities needing to be done such as building the shed and making way for another building. Those are done so now it's back to working on getting this ready.

The shed is another step closer to being done.

Finally, it's done and looks pretty good.

The shed with weather tight, woooo!

I built the roof rakes for the shed. We got one hung up tonight.

This took forever, but at least one end is done.

I've been working more on the shed roof. It's been hot. It's now officially weather tight.

Both woodsheds are ready for wood.... 'soon as the tide goes out.

One side of the roof is done, hopefully the other will be done soon!

Setting the ridge pole and rafters. Part 2 will be finishing them up.

In this epic earth shattering video, I laid down the varmit vomit for the attic floor and to give a good deck to work on while putting up rafters. Having too much storage space is impossible.

It took all afternoon, a break for about a 1/2 an hour rain storm and that back at it, but I finally got the collar ties on.

I was driving down the road and a small moose came out and began trotting down the road. Not a care in the world, then back in to the woods. This was just a small one, but still not one you want to hit.

We got the walls up. It was a slow process, but they're up.