Gulf Island Building.

BigJim

Just beautiful again buddy, just beautiful.

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cocobolo

I expect it's something like buying a Rolls Royce.

If you have to ask the price, then you can't afford it!

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cocobolo

At the extreme top of the stairwell is this FLAT wall! Flat, I tell you!

100" long and it tapers from two feet on the left to four feet on the right.

I'm going to need to do that next, as the scaffold planks I am using will be losing their support as soon as the next wall section is done.

Unlike jl, I haven't yet quite mastered the art of levitation...even with the wife's assistance!

The triangles at the top were completed last night...I think you can just see one of them here.

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[quote=cocobolo;531351]At the extreme top of the stairwell is this FLAT wall! Flat, I tell you! Say it isn't so buddy!!!

Once you get your scaffolding set up that should be a breeze for you. Most times just getting to something like that is harder than actually doing it. Once you get through on the scaffold it will feel like a vacation working back from the floor.

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[quote=jiju1943;531371]Honest to Pete, it's true. FLAT I say!

I can get at some of it from the very top landing, but 2/3 of it is off a plank.

I'm still looking for enough boards to cover the area. Looks like I'm going to need to do some milling this morning.

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Got a call from a friend who was unable to make it back to the island today due to the terrible weather conditions. He asked if I would mind taking care of something at his cabin..of course I wouldn't mind.

It looks like I may have found enough boards for that top wall, and I have run everything through the planer and it's all dadoed as well. I think I will need three pieces of long backing to nail the wall boards to. That I have.

Now to lug it all upstairs...

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BigJim

Keith, is the weather up your way cold and raining or just cold? I bet when the wind blows across the water is just goes right through you.

We will be waiting for some pictures, you have spoiled us.

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We seem to have very specific weather patterns here Jim.

If it's raining, the cloud cover tends to keep it warmer. Right now, it is 8ºC here, raining, and the real feel is 2ºC. That is largely due to the wind.

However, the wind almost always blows in the direction of the length of the local islands. So we usually will get either south east or north west winds.

In either case, there are sufficient trees surrounding us that neither of those winds are too bad. The north westerlies do blow into our bay, so we feel that more, but that is largely due to the fact that we are still in the cabin as opposed to the house.

If you were outside and it was blowing 20 k's and raining as it is right now, then you'd be cold in a big hurry.

I have just installed the backing boards for the wood on the upper wall and now going to start getting set up for the pre done angle cuts.

So it looks like there won't be any pics until tomorrow.......sorreeee...

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BigJim

Keith, all you have been through today, we can let the pictures slide.

You must have done a lot of research on the area that you live before deciding to buy there. Here the Tennessee River runs around us and in the winter if the wind is blowing it feels like it will blow all the way through you. I was stationed up north in the winter when I was going through school in the Navy and it just didn't feel cold up there, it was a dry cold not like here.

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You need to remember that I've lived in the general area (Vancouver & surrounds) for nigh on 54 years now. I was lucky enough to have a chum in school who's folks were boaters, so I got my first powerboat lesson at 15.

Although I didn't realize it at the time, I think being out and about on the water must have sent some kind of signal into my hard drive. While I never consciously thought about living on one of the islands, I suppose sub-consciously something must have been there all along.

I did live on Vancouver Island for a time, so other than a 5 year stint in the Yukon, I have always been near the water.

I did a lot of boating through these waters in the '80's, and I should have bought property then. Just not smart enough. Some of the lots then were only around $5,000. The waterfront lots here - with nothing built on them - are 1/4 million plus.

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Congratulations on breaking the 100,000 mark Keith, way to go buddy. The next 100,000 will go a lot faster.

Talking about speed boats, I didn't own a speed boat but I did have a fairly fast one. A 20 foot Stratos with a 200HP Blackmax modified, it would run 80 MPH.

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100,271 views? Congratulations Keith.

Here's to 100, 000 more. It's beer in the glass - root beer.

Bud Cline

Keith,

All of this fine woodworking and craftsmanship surely creates an abundance of sawdust.

What happens to all of the sawdust?

I would almost bet you have a use for it somewhere.

Years ago I had a friend that was at one time a logger in Oregon and Washington. He returned here to Nebraska and built himself log-lathe. Locally he was logging along the river and selling to the local saw mill. He did however reserve some of the logs for his lathe. This of course created a never ending supply of wood chips and saw dust.

He then built a large cauldron heated with propane. He mixed the wood chips with paraffin and molded fireplace logs for local sale. Seemed like a great way to dispose of the log residue.

Just curious as to whether or not you put your sawdust to use in any fashion.

cocobolo

You're right, there is no shortage of sawdust or planer shavings here.

We use the shavings to start the woodstoves in the morning, or for the composting toilets.

Any that is left over gets bagged for future use in the same fashion.

Wife number two likes to use the sawdust (as opposed to planer shavings) to put on the pathways. It has been noted by our numerous visitors that we have the softest pathways on the island.

Eventually, the sawdust breaks down and turns itself back in to soil. She keeps adding to the pathways constantly. It also helps to prevent the weeds growing on the pathways.

At the moment we have something over 500 feet of pathways here, with more to come.

A morning shot - taken a few minutes ago with the sun just peeking through the trees. Gives the best light.

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While I was out there, I nabbed a couple of other pics...one with the sun just catching the top of a few clumps of moss, the other of a mushroom (about 11" across) growing down by the lower woodsheds - in the pathway of course!

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