Thursday, May 16, 2013

Winter Progress

This winter we made a few trips out to the property.  We have done some logging and milling, but the most exciting project we worked on is the bathroom.  Last weekend it was windy and rainy outside so we decided to get some work done inside.  Although not finished, it is nice to see some progress on the inside of the cabin. 
 
After applying bondo, sanding, priming and painting we were able to put up some of the red cedar.  We milled, planed, and cut shiplap sides into the wood and let it dry inside for several months.
 
 
Then we stained the wood and...

 
put in the counter top.

 
This beautiful piece of wood came from a yellow cedare drift log that floated into our cove over a year ago.  Greg milled it with the chainsaw mill.

 
We even put in the door jam and trim around the door.  Now, we need to mill wood for a door...

 
This winter we also cleaned up all of the brush from the beach and burned it.  It took a couple of trips to get all of the brush and drift wood to burn, but finally it was gone, and...
 
 
now, the beach looks nice an clean!

 
We also built a new mooring anchor for in our cove to tie up the fishing boat.  It weighs about 300lbs. and should hold the boat in most weather.