HUGE Logs From New Home Excavation 

Thanks. There is always building going on here, lol

Thank you

Thanks. Have a good week

I plan on a surprise for her

Gosh, thanks for the nice comment. Hope you have a good week

I think I figured it out so stay tuned for details

Thank you. Always something going on here, right? Lol

You all are doing the same. It works better that way huh?

Love those folks. Certainly good people. Always something going on up here, lol, build, build, build

You’re welcome Richard. Have a good week

Thank you and yes always a new project, lol. Have a good week

Yes we are. Always starting something new, lol

Yes. Probably next year. Already know how I’m going to do it

Always here at the homestead. Building constantly, lol

Thank you

They don’t want a concrete slab, they will be building a crawl space. Only slab for the garage and front porch. Then you will see one

You got that right! Have a good week

Not for sure where they come from. We should ask for better standards. After all we allow them to be sold to the public. They shouldn’t pass for “okay to be used.”

lol, that’s why they are called “ridge runners.” It is very steep.

@@SmokyMountainOutpost yeah I know all my folks come from NC mountains very close to where you are now. Spent all my childhood there those cows look like they're standing on a straight up hillside. But I learned after I got old enough to go hiking and hunting those cows wear out multiple flat pathways along those hillsides and they walk those pathways and eat the grass from those pathways. From a distance they appear to be standing on a 45° angle but in fact they're standing on flat paths they've worn down. 😂

I’ve made one trip. The other was mailed. Stay tuned because I think I figured it out

That’s exactly it. I would need to extend the link to go deeper

They are mounted correctly. The mill would have to turn and we don’t want sawdust blowing toward the workshop. It’s set up just like the old one.

Thank you. I can keep an eye on her, lol

@@SmokyMountainOutpost That is a bit like closing the gate after the horse has bolted

Sure will and have a good week

That’s the key. And leveling the toe of blade more does the trick

Think we have it all figured out. Stay tuned for update

Think I have it figured out

Oh no, not a problem. Done this for every building so far. It just takes time. Not afraid of getting physical. That keeps me young

That was the trick. Leveling out the shoe tip made all the difference

Patrick likes Texas. He will not be building here.

I thought about that.. Guessing Patrick with get the main house.. A long long long time from now...

No. Afraid she doesnt

⁠just wondering if they’re documenting this for the future.

I have one. I just don’t use it much. Maybe I’ll get some soon enough.

You’re exactly right. I seen it myself. If you need to go deeper it must be extended.

Your correct. Leveling out the shoe helped more than anything, and the depth as well

That’s the key

I understand everyone has different opinions on these matters, so I can respect that. No shame at all though, it’s not for fun or pleasure. We don’t partake in pleasure by knocking trees down. It’s to make room for family, so that they can move out of the city…(where they tear the entire land apart). We only take exactly what is needed and we try to keep as much as we can bc we like our area. We try to salvage as much as possible. Also, if anyone spends enough time around the forest they would be aware that some of the larger trees can compete for the canopy and it causes the smaller trees to essentially be stunted to a degree…and with there being an opening now, MANY of the smaller trees will be able to grow and flourish. The entire mountainside we are living and building on was once extremely bare before coming into our family. It has been growing for probably 40/50+ years. I’d venture to say that most resources that people use in the making of; or was used in the making of their home were produced from doing the exact same thing, cutting down a tree. The areas that people live in to a large degree, trees were cut down to make way for neighborhoods or roads. So unless someone is living entirely synthetic amongst the environment we live in on earth, then at some point materials/resources have been used or have been paid for to be used.. Even if someone builds a home with stone, it may have come from a quarry…they dug in the earth and extracted stone, now there is a gapping hole that people charge money for materials AND trees potentially were removed in the area…just to make a stone house.. Cinder block? Coals from wood… So to avoid any of this, everyone would need to live synthetically because there isn’t any way around it. Not unless they live in a tree and own nothing. Can’t drive a car…the manufacturer cut trees down potentially and built a massive complex to build cars…why then: go against cutting trees down, but then be contradicting by driving the car from the company that just cut all the trees down? Can’t really live 100% synthetically either though…an R&D facility was built somewhere to develop synthetically made things…in which trees were probably cut down to build the facility. Not every time, but a lot. No shame here at all, not for pleasure or fun…it’s for family and for life and sustainability. I know I labeled a few extreme examples in this message, and not everyone and everything falls into those categories. I respect your opinion to save trees, and I agree with you.