Ian
Notorious member
I may be in over my head, we'll see. In between my other five-year projects I decided to start this one since a whole lotta phone poles endedbup at my house and are very much in the way.
Plan is an 8x12' cabin made from 8-10" diameter poles, supported by dry-stack limestone piers, a simple gable roof of shallow pitch topped with about a foot of dirt. "Green roof" I think it's called. Norwegians been doing it this way for many centuries.
So far I got most of the pier rocks needed dug out and hauled down the steep hill to the left and three of the piers done. Huge footer stones are buried about a foot deep and almost flush with the grade on three corners. The poles have to be winched up a steep embankment about 100' down to the right, very time consuming but I don't want to cut trees and tear up a bunch of land to make a road to the shack. When I'm done I want it to look like mobody was there and only a narrow foot trail to lead in/out.
It doesn't look like much yet but I have about two days in it already and am getting close to finished with the piers.
Plan is an 8x12' cabin made from 8-10" diameter poles, supported by dry-stack limestone piers, a simple gable roof of shallow pitch topped with about a foot of dirt. "Green roof" I think it's called. Norwegians been doing it this way for many centuries.
So far I got most of the pier rocks needed dug out and hauled down the steep hill to the left and three of the piers done. Huge footer stones are buried about a foot deep and almost flush with the grade on three corners. The poles have to be winched up a steep embankment about 100' down to the right, very time consuming but I don't want to cut trees and tear up a bunch of land to make a road to the shack. When I'm done I want it to look like mobody was there and only a narrow foot trail to lead in/out.
It doesn't look like much yet but I have about two days in it already and am getting close to finished with the piers.