another of Jeff's projects?

[Fla._Deadheader]

   :D :D :D :D :D :D

[TW]

Jeff.
That invention should not be posted on a public forum before you have the sales organisation ready and the supply organized. We here in Europe are much closer to the market so we can outcompete you before you have gotten started. and before you have gotten the first unit sold. If you pay me the prize of a sawmill, I will keep the secret, and otherwise i will contact accuintances in the wooden element export business on monday morning. They will surely pay me for "my" idea.

For those of you who did not understand, it is the foundation of a one family house for the English market. The platform is obviously the floor and the poles are there to keep the floor above water level. They will come in two versions with 4 and 8 m poles respectively. ;D

[Timburr]

TW, we're having a drought now; it hasn't rained for 1½ days. ;D

[Mooseherder]

Jeff is building one of these for someone special. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjjWXstjZc

[TW]

Aye. Oswestry suffers from drought and is consequently a four metre pole area.



By the way. I feel really sorry for your flooding trouble but I am too far away to be of any help.

[Timburr]

Such dry repartee on a subject saturated with an excess of wetness! :D

Oswestry is quite relieved. We are on the foothills of the Welsh mountains, so we don't suffer from flooding, but I have great sympathy for those who do.  Why, oh why do our government boffins allow planning permission to build on flood plains?  A distinct lack of  common sense!

The only poles we have in our 'family homes' speak polish  ;D

[Furby]

Well, it's not what I had thought he was building, but it still is a Furby stand and with some rails added, it would make a great place to camp out. ;)
Might have to give it a try sometime!

[Jeff]

Try it next week Furb.  You could set a tent up on it. The tent can be your rails.  You just gotta share it with the local cougar if she decides to stash his kills up there. 


Just caught a ride home and got lots to do. I'll post some photos later, but for now I'm burning daylight.

PIGROAST 6 more days!

[asy]

Jeff is building one of these for someone special. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjjWXstjZc

OMG! Why in DAYLIGHTS is it that when you get four nutters with an ATV and a huge rubber band, it's the GIRL they test it on...   :-[

Please dont' do that to Furby...  Please...   :-\

asy :D

[Furby]

Why not Asy ???
I actually had hoped that was what Jeff was building! 8) 8) 8)
;D ;D ;D

I'd say that girl has a pretty big "pair" for trying out that stunt! ;D

[asy]

Why not Asy ???

'Coz I was worried about you.

Make sure you have some of Puhskolly's bikkies before you go on it. That way you can die happy...

asy :D

[Reddog]

Puhskolly's bikkies

asy :D

??? ??? :-\

[Furby]

Ya missed the end of this thread didn't ya Asy?
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=26719.msg384414#msg384414

[asy]

Aparrently...  :-\ 

Seems ya already tried to die happy...  from overcookieing.

asy :D

[Furby]

Dat's my goal.............. die happy! ;D 8) 8) 8)

[sawguy21]

Jeff is building one of these for someone special. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjjWXstjZc

OMG! Why in DAYLIGHTS is it that when you get four nutters with an ATV and a huge rubber band, it's the GIRL they test it on...   :-[

Please dont' do that to Furby...  Please...   :-\

asy :D

Because she is the only one crazy enough (or drunk enough) to get in the DanG thing. :D

[Furby]

That was pretty much my first though as well, what did they slip her before hand. :
Take a look at the quad tracks though and you can tell they've done it before.

[Jeff]

Be careful Tammy.....I got into all sorts of trouble using someone elses name ;)

My guess is it is a .....what the hell is a puff ball???? :P

Chris, I made a post here on our Giant Puffballs. 

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=26901.0

[Jeff]

Tammy and I worked again this past weekend on the "project" 

Here is a more complete pictorial of what we have been doing.

Great Nephew Aaron and I skid cedar poles out to create the legs for our platform stand

THese are called "elevators"  Tammy got them for me for my birthday. Makes for creating an easy elevated stand. Designed for 4by4s but I used 12 ft cedar poles that I squared the ends with a chainsaw.


I Built the basic platform and secured the elevators to it in the cabin yard.


Hauling the materials to our property along with a couple bags of corn for the feeder. This was a heavy load and I got stuck crossing through the ditch onto the powerline. Had to unload it all and then load it back on.


Sticking the legs in and securing some temporary cross supports that I'll replace with longer stronger cedar poles. Pete and I tipped it up after that. It wasn't lite, but it was very doable.


20 minutes after getting on site, we had a standing platform and I began decking the top.


This is how we left the platform the first day.


Tammy and I building the stairs/ladder hybred.  I like to build them this way as it has the benefits of the wide step, yet you can still use the sides to hang on.


Beginning to build the blind with materials we sawed out of the "Furby log"


Hauling the walls to the stand.


I'll tell ya what, I was sore after pushing those walls up the stairs.

Tammy and I taking a break


The stand as we left it this past weekend.  Ready for some more sheeting a roof and windows. We had the windows all framed in and ready for the windows we found at the resale shop in pickford for $1 each. Each window disassembled into two horizontally sliding panes. The blind will have 7 windows, two on each side other then one on the door side which faces the steps costing a total of $4.    We still need to install some more bracing to replace the temporary 1by4 braces. The roof will be steel. We have enough scrap leftovers from the cabin to lay together to make the roof.

[Furby]

 8) 8) 8)
Looks like the guest cabin is coming right along! ;D

Gonna have a problem with the steel roof scaring the deer from the noise when it rains and such?

[Jeff]

They eat grass along the outside of outhouse so I doubt it.  Most rain noise is in a building or structure, not around it.  You step outside and it sounds like everything else that gets rained on.

[Jeff]

Actually Furby, it's probably bigger then many tents at 6ft square and a guy could stay in there. Good place to stay a a step or two above these critters I caught on the trail cam last week.  The bears have heard it is safe to come home as Jeff does not have a permit this year. ;D








These guys are still around too. They might want to join ya on the platform though.

[SwampDonkey]

You guys have been busy.  ;D

Looking down the line from the stand, is that toward the main road? Is the stand out of view of road traffic?  ;) Glass, hmmmm.....something to break. 


Nice looking ........ ........ bear. The coons reminded me of one dark morning I drove up the road to work. I seen several sets of eyes in a chokecherry bush as I approached with the car. Just as I got up close, a family of coons scampered across the road.  ;D

[Jeff]

That picture is looking down the powerline.  The road is the other direction. The stand is set back off the line enough that very very little can bee seen of it from the road. Just the edges can be seen past the spruce and mostly because the wood is so white right now.  Its about 600 feet back to the road.

[ScottAR]

Game cam....

My boss caught his neighbor cutting hay last year...  Pick #1 tractor goin'
across the field... Pic #2 tractor coming back... Pick #3.... You get the idea.