More Reset Pictures

These pictures were taken by the log home builder's wife, our new friend Becky.  This is her husband Joe working on top of the logs.

Love this picture of the truck pulling into our drive.

What a view!  Can't imagine ever getting tired of seeing this.  So glad we are having BIG windows.

And the Walls Go Up

The logs are home--on our home site, that is. Yippee. We've been waiting and waiting for this day. I was surprised how quickly they were able to reset the logs.  Rollie called tonight and said they were up around 7 feet.

Always a beautiful day in Montana.  Neighbor Harry called tonight, too, to tell us they had walked over to see what was happening.  Said they saw a lot happening "up on the hill" today.  Ha!  We love how he keeps us up-to-date.

The Walls Go Down

Yes, down.  All of these pictures are taken at the log home builder's site.  The logs are being taken down, numbered and loaded onto the truck to be trucked to our home site.  It's only one-quarter mile down the road from here.  It's been fun to work with local people.  We feel like we have quite a few friends already!

They leave the last layer of logs here to continue building up the last few feet.

Progress, but still not the "good" stuff

Coils for radiant heat in basement

Subfloor

View from where the living room window will be

How is a cabin made?

The logs look like this when they arrive.
All of these pictures were taken on the builder's site.

Each log is hand-peeled by a guy hired to do only that.
Look at all of these shavings on the ground.

Joe and Lloyd are the builders.

The craftsmanship is amazing.  The logs fit together perfectly.

From the outside--the slits are where a door will be.

From the inside

The wall will be 12 feet tall when it's done.

Bruce helps to steady a log that was lifted into place by a forklift.
The guys then use a calipers to scribe where to cut the log so it fits just right.

Necessary...but not too interesting

Basement walls

Rock dug out of basement

This guy joined us as we looked over the house and just wouldn't leave.

Stone to backfill the drain around the foundation was delivered while we were there.

Basement walls are covered with this vapor barrier.

Escape window in basement

First View

They are working on the basement of the cabin.  Can't see too much yet but the views are great.  The reason it looks so shallow is that the house will be built up a few feet.  The basement walls are eight feet tall.  When they were digging the basement, they ran into a 8-12 ton rock.  Fortunately, the excavator was able to move it and lift it out.  Sometimes they have to dig a hole beside it and bury it.  FYI:  three inches of snow today in Whitefish which isn't that far away.  Yikes!