Well the sun shone on our little woodland setting the past weekend so we took our chance to perform a touch of woodland maintenance
We organized a tractor and trailer and began to sweat.
The task of the day was to move a pile of rotting logs the loads soon filled up but the unloading was a dream due the trailers hydraulics
Three loads will do for now
Until next time
It has been a busy time since the last post so I will try to get back on track with the diary posts.
First item that was tackled after the pourch was to finish the front with a privacy screen type affair again made out of split willow poles.
On the same day we set about building a wood oven (not made of the stuff obviously) after much research via the net and a well known video sharing site we had a plan
So armed with an old vegetable oil tin and a surplus piece of flue pipe we began to dig, we managed to fashion a oven much like the ones we had seen during our research that was until it was lit .... well after a lot of fueling and blowing which made you light headed it was hopeless it just wasn't getting hot, well even warm
It was sadly abandoned in favor of the dutch oven.
Damper bread that the was forward was mentioned, that was until we forgot to damp the fire down hence the name and what we ended up with can only resemble a burnt coconut.
The next on the agenda was to line out the inside of our now second home with some plywood that had been previously purloined
I can't take any credit for this endeavor as the magnificent procedure lies with my two companions
I could go into depths about this procedure but I won't
However I will go in to depths about one other follicley challenged member while carry the board from the cache on his head down to shack resulted in a rather sore and reddend head, I am sure it was very sore at the time but I have no doubt that this event may bring some comedic value in the future.
One member of our little woodland adventure had a free day recently while the other two of us had work.
So he set off on a solo building adventure he decided what the shack was missing was a lean-to pourch,so armed with only a bow saw a couple of tin roofing sheets and a handful of rusty nails set about this needed addition to the shack, words cannot explain how he managed it but he did.
With poles and framework made with silver birch trees it looks amazing well done mate.
February has been a good month for our woodland adventure after the floor boarding we set about getting some daylight into the shack
A window was sourced and after much cutting of the tin sheets (and a fair amount of swearing after my generator was putting out any electric) the window was eased into it's newly awaiting frame, and now the shack is looking almost habitable so with that in mind we planned our fist over night stop out
A Saturday night was the best for a taking part , a lamb tagine was prepared along with much refreshment's of the grape and grain variety, the gas bottle wood burning stove work well and gave us much warmth and after some black bomber cheese we retired.
We woke early the next morning all very cold there needs to be some further work done on blocking out some of the drafts.
After a pause in the woodland cabin build due to the snowy conditions last weekend saw the start of a weekend of building.
A plan had been settled on to use pallets topped with plywood boarding, the afore mentioned was gathered and after much levelling and a certain amount of sweating from one member, the floor is now in.
After a frenzied week of scavenging from one member we have a usefully cache of sheets and timber.
This is what happens when you leave 3 chaps and bag of nails alone for too long.
Last weekend we all met at our secret woodland location to start the evolution of our newly acquired cabin.
The plan was to dig out the floor of the cabin to accommodate a wooden floor, the digging was easygoing and we soon had the required depth needed there was also a spare roofing sheet which was soon fashioned into the start of the wall cladding.
After much searching we have finally found a little piece of woodland for our weekend amtics.
Today is the first viewing (it was the last week in Dec 2012)
