Marcel builds a house. 1

[EZ]

Good for you, Marcel.
I wonder if I can take a 2 year leave from my day job. Would love to be up there to help or be in your way.
EZ

[thecfarm]

Glad you can do a big project like this.I had ours built.I would of never got it done.I have way too many projects outside to do.We put 3 foot doors in every room.Makes it alot eaiser to move furniture in and this is the last home we're going to have.My wife was in a wheel chair due to her leg and it was so easy to go from room to room.No carpet at our place.Too hard to keep clean.We bring alot of dirt and sawdust  ;D  inside.Helps out my allergies too.No over head cupboards.I did not want my wife standing on a stool in future years.We put in almost all draws.Pull it out and look.Don't have to pull everything out to get a certain pan.A pantry does her wonders.We put in 2 bathrooms.One has a shower stall,easier for her to get in and out when she was in a wheel chair.A high toliet in great too.Probaly don't need to hear me ramble on,but too late now.Good-luck

[isawlogs]

 
The plans cant change now , the numbers are there to stay , change them and I got to get new plans made  :-\.. I can though play around some with the inside   ;D
  If any of you wants GRITS  ya best bring yourselves a cook from ways down from me  ;D I have venison and maple sirop , not necessarily  in same plate  ;)
You can come up here and be my shadow anytime it pleases you , two years or a day or two, Any one of you are welcome to try your hand on the saw .. wether it be the Stihl or the WoodMizer , if you make it soon enough you could even try your hands on the John Deere , a little later you could be using a hammer or a sander .  ;D
     All doors in the house are to be 36" , shower on the main floor , tub upstair , No carpets here , if it aint wood its going to be tyles , There is a adition already on paper for this place  :  On the east side ( left on the plans ) there is a master bedroom that will be attached to the logs (timber frame ) this for my senior years when I wont want to climb the stairs .  ;) There is also another timber frame to be attached to the north side ,  12 X 12 breakfast room .
  Now these are not included in the two year plan 

[Coon]

Gotta like that you have a long term building plan that you can do.  Keep your main focus on the main building for now.  Just don't get side tacked to easily now. :D :D  Those grits you're talking about will just spoil the project.  You'll like em so much that you'll soon forget the task at hand.  Don't ask me how I know : :
Brad.

[SwampDonkey]

I think he'll be alright with the grits if he lots them up with the maple syrup. :D

[wiam]

Will there be a "raising"?  I bet there are a bunch of us that would come.

Will

[isawlogs]

  One of the first pine trees to come out ,

 

  Aspen logs to make the flooring , Pine logs to make  floor joices  8" X 10"

 

Todays helpers , my brother Norman and the twins Leo and Lucien .  Norm has been slashing for me and the twins where cutting the logs and helping me when I got to the landing with the skidder.

 

  The machines that make life a little easier when moving and placing the wood .

 

[Paul_H]

Nice stack of logs Marcel and I see the snow is gone too.(that bit of white by the skidder don't count eh.)

[isawlogs]

  Paul ... thats because we cleared where the logs are to go ... there still is 18 inches where the trees are standing ..  ;)  It goes good in the morning from daybreak till 10 in the mornning , but after that the crust starts to let go and ya start to limp once in a while for the next hour then you are past your knees .

[Fla._Deadheader]

   8) Good show, Marcel  8)  Nice whack-0-logs  ;D ;D

[pigman]

I like your Deutz tractor. I have an older and smaller two wheel drive model.

[SwampDonkey]

Looks like a great bunch of wood. And a good crew around the get'r done. ;)

I was on one hillside the other day looking at thinning and there was 3 feet of the white stuff on the ground. That was about 40 miles from here, while we have hardly any in my area.

[bull]

Marcel, best of luck !! Hope you have time for the EXPO, if so see you there Hey !!!  Bull

[isawlogs]

 I found an arial pic of where I am going  . The river to the top is the north border , it fallows the field to the right and left, 2/3 of a mile to the left is the east border , 1/3 of a mile to the left[/u] right  :  is the west border and from the train track south 1/3 of a mile then there is one mile to the Vermont  Québec border . To the left of this pic is my little pond wich is the second and third pic .









  The house will be going in front of the small barn , tucked in between the balsam trees .

[Paul_H]

Very nice  8)

I think I can see a guest house and guest pool in the top picture  ;)

[SwampDonkey]

That's the old sewage lagoon, not the pool. ;D :D

[SwampDonkey]

Really nice spot Marcel. Thanks for sharing your pictures.  8)

[isawlogs]

  Paul , once my house is done there will be 12 bedrooms between the two of them .. you come over and I will make sure you get choice of ten .  ;) :D :D

   

[Paul_H]

That's the old sewage lagoon, not the pool. ;D :D

I don't think you want SD over there,,he can't seem to tell the difference between the two and he's liable to pee in your pool and swim in the lagoon. 

[asy]

So, how many days of the year is the pool actually thawed???   

Looks gorgeous!

asy :D

[UNCLEBUCK]

Aqua du Marcel  8) Timber du Marcel 8) oui oui  :P

[SwampDonkey]

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[isawlogs]

 Well if any of you , have any idea in trying out the lagoon , I have no problem with that , but I will have a camera around to make sure it is forever printed some where that you did  ;D :D :D

  Asy , last two weeks of june and all of july , if you are lucky you can swim in august , brave might be a better term to use .  ;D

[UNCLEBUCK]

Excellent logging pictures and aerial photos Marcel . Beautiful place 

[isawlogs]

  UB .. Ya got to make a trip up here and see it close up , I aint got no gate up , so the place is always open .  ;)