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- Just wanted to show the ladder that they made on site. I think you can see that it is two tree limbs with some slats nailed into them. They have only a basic set of tools and seem to make most things right on site. It looks very different than an American job site when you see a pickup for every guy that is working and each guy has their own set of tools. All the workers here arrive either by bicycle or all together standing up in the back of a pickup truck
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- The connection in other cases is a separate pin going down through the beams into a whole cut in a wall pole. This wood is a hardwood they call Colorado. They are using Colorado because it is a hardwood that grows very straight and doesn’t split. Other construction I have seen mostly uses Eucalyptus as beams and posts. Our Architect didn’t want to use Eucalyptus because it splits easy and isn’t really straight.
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- A shot of how the beams and walls are connected. Notice that wooden pins. In some cases the poles in the wall are cut down leaving the center to act as a pin going into holes cut into the log beams, as is the case with the two wall poles in this picture
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- Out of Dave’s office window across the outdoor kitchen to the Master wing.
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- The guest wing taken from the outdoor kitchen
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- looking from the middle of the Master bedroom back at the entrance where the nicheries are.
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- This is from the living room looking down the hall to the Master bedroom. That notched looking thing is one of the niches, and new word for you, bedroom nicheries.
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- from the street
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- Looking from one side of the indoor patio across to (from left to right), powder room, laundry room, and pantry. you can see the arches are in place for the doors. On the right and actually within the indoor patio the arch and small wall are in also
