Shooting shack construction underway!

[fiver]

you ain't kidding.
I have been to promontory point [where the two company's met up] on the north side of the lake, and across the causeway on the great salt lake.

I have also ridden the train a bunch across some areas, over some mountains, and though some tunnels that leave me speechless.
most of the tunnels were built with black powder as an explosive, and the dirt to build up the right of ways in most places were moved by hand.
tons and tons of dirt moved one shovel full at a time.

 

[Ian]

Well, I cleared a new footpath on a more gradual grade making a bigger loop through the light brush than my previous mountain goat trail to the range. Worked down some hard grass clumps with a grubbing hoe and kicked all the small rocks out of the way to make a path wide enough for a big-wheel dolly. Strapped a nine-foot x 10" log onto the dolly and drug it up there, path was better but still tough. Did one more and then tried one of the 13' poles, THAT put me a little over the limit of what my compressed lumbar disks can handle and I knew it, a little tingly in the right foot came on a few minutes later. So, I declared F-it I'm gonna enlist the help of my good friends Rudolf Diesel and Bartholomew Hydraulics along with their associates Gonshiro Kubota and Les Melroe. The grass can grow back one day, I'm getting too old to be pushing the physical redline anymore. As a plus, getting the machinery up there means I won't have to build a 15' tripod for my chain hoist to lift logs into place or haul dirt up a ladder in buckets to the roof.

 

[Winelover]

Well they finally caught the absconder:

Man added to sheriff’s Most Wanted list captured Tuesday night

A man who was added to the Baxter County Sheriff’s Most Wanted list Tuesday afternoon was apprehended Tuesday night in Mountain Home. Twenty-two-year-old Kyle James Tilley of Jordan was arrested by Mountain Home Police at a local

www.ktlo.com

 

[Bret4207]

ian, for your gouge do a search for timber framing tools or log cabin building tools. I had catalog here for years with big slicks, chisels and gouges in them. Sad to say I can't recall the names of the companies or know if they are still around. I'm talking 2.5-3 foot long tools meant to be used with the hands and shoulder.

 

[Ian]

I'll keep looking, I actually know what a "slick" is but have never seen one in person. Very useful tool it appears.

 

[freebullet]

Just burn the surface, they'll cut easy

 

[fiver]

eww!!!

 

[Ian]

yeaaaahhh---no.

I'm selecting logs without the butt ends that have the extra-goopy black crap slathered on them for ground contact.

Got a couple more small ratty cedars cut out of the way and a big enough trail cleared for my little 743B to wiggle through, now all I need is time to set the last pillar, sink the logs down into the rocks a little where they rest, and start notching.

 

[Charles Graff]

Sounds like you have a unique, at least for this part of the world, project going on. Best of luck and keep us posted with pics as things progress.

 

[Ian]

Thank you, Charles. Some progress:



Hopefully I can put some time in on it this weekend. Current holdup is not having a proper log scribe and not being inclined to spend $250 on one. I bought some small aluminum bar, a silver marking pencil, and a two-axis spirit level today so I can make one. Thanks to some generous members here I have a large crate of round bar scraps to make knobs, clamps, and such with my lathe.

Next step will be scribing down the far sill log onto the rocks about an inch, and then doing the same with the near one to get a level, stable start.

 

[Brad]

A chair? You sittin on the job? What are you, a city worker?

 

[Ian]

No, if I were a city worker I'd have a shovel stuck in the dirt to lean on. We had a highway department truck in for service the other day and the forman who dropped it off came back a half hour later in a mild panic. He said he left all the shovels behind in the truck he dropped off and had to leave a six-man crew on the jobsite......leaning on each other.

 

[Bret4207]

Hows the search for gouges and slicks going? FWIW, they make a carving disc that goes on your common 4 1/2" angle grinder that would probably do the job after you score to the line with a chainsaw and knocked the wood out with an axe or even a claw hammer. Might be an option. This is the Harbor Freight version but there are better quality examples out there- https://www.harborfreight.com/22-tooth-carving-disc-61638.html

 

[Gary]

Hows the search for gouges and slicks going? FWIW, they make a carving disc that goes on your common 4 1/2" angle grinder that would probably do the job after you score to the line with a chainsaw and knocked the wood out with an axe or even a claw hammer. Might be an option. This is the Harbor Freight version but there are better quality examples out there- https://www.harborfreight.com/22-tooth-carving-disc-61638.html

Bret; Amazon has one that's about half that price. Going to get one myself to rough out some wooden bowls.

 

[Ian]

Bret and Gary, did find some gouges, don't really need a slick right now. I already have a 50mm #7 and 35mm #10 to experiment with. If I like that method I'll buy or make a sturdier one.

Funny you should mention the angle grinder attachments, I just discovered those this week by accident. The planer disks look to be the most useful, the King Arthur the most effective at rough removal and also the most dangerous. I have a KA and a planer sitting in my A-zon cart.

 

[popper]

If those are deep splits in the poles, rotate 90deg. They will split the notches easier but also along the length.

 

[Ian]

Got three corners sunk down onto the pillars and the last corner pillar stones mortared together. Here's two ends of the same sill afer being fitted:

 

[Brad]

Is gravity the only “adhesive” holding them in place?

 

[Pistolero]

Log Building Slicks, Chisels and Gouges Carving Tool Sets - Log Home Building Tools and Timber Framing Tools - Magard Ventures Ltd., Canada.

We carry various chisels, slicks and gouges for log home building and timber frame construction including socket and bench chisels, swiss carving sets and mortise chesels.

www.logbuildingtools.ca

 

[Ian]

Yep, just gravity. The building will weigh somewhere around 6-7000 lbs before the roof material is added, so I don't think it's going anywhere.