we got bored this weekend

This weekend it was time to make more woodchips, and boards.

Saturday, Kris and i headed up to the wood storage facility up postil and got the chainsaw all set up.

1st cut

Our mission this time was to make a sweet post.  pretty much the same procedure as boards, just wider cuts. 

cutting up the post

Our finished post was pretty sweet.  5x5 post about 7 feet long.  turned out nice and straight.  took about 20 minutes of sawing.

the wood spot.  all you can eat.

Kris is starting to get a nice collection of chan-sawn benches at his place.  I gotta whip some up too for my fire pit.  the firewood pile at my place is getting pretty big, needless to say.

The next Day

The next day, Patrick and I went out with the chainsaw again.  same sweet log area, and whipped up a few more boards.  We have dreams of building a sweet log cabin, and until we have a place to build it, might as well just practice cutting stuff up.

i love the smell of woodchips and 2 stroke

Along with our boards, we also made a few practice log notches.  better to mess up firewood than mess up building a real wall.  It wasn't as hard as we thought, and in about 2 minutes we had a rough and workable notch.  imagine what 5 minutes would have produced.

cabin notch

Then we hopped into the truck and headed up a cool little trail.  a bit muddy, but nothing we couldn;t handle.

mmmmmmmud

We got to our sweet cliff lookout spot and got the fire ripping and the relaxing was going too.

our sweet spot

one for each hand

looking down the cliff a bit

stuff is awesome

until we have a place to build a cabin, we will keep making random lumber and practicing out notches.  it's always fun, but i can't wait until its cabin building time.  whenever that is.