The concrete mono pour! We pour the footings, walls and the slab floor all at once! This pour took just short of 30 yards.
Category: Puget Island
Marina – Saw Mill Part 2
Today we brought a log over to my friend Gordy who has a band saw mill. His mill can cut big stuff while Henry’s cuts only as big as 4″x12″. I need 4) beams 5 1/5″ x 13 1/2″ x 18 feet long. Gordy and I cut two of those beams. Now I’ve got to find another log…
Milling Lumber
Today my friends and I milled an old growth log that was used for years to support a floating structure. It had lots of large spikes in it that needed to be removed before setting it up on the mill. Once on the mill, we cut all the 4×10 beam stock needed for all door and window headers. This…
Fox Glove and Marina
This last week I completed the foundation forming, and my business partner finished up the rough plumbing for the two bathrooms, two kitchenettes and the laundry room. Hopefully we’ll pour concrete next week. What you’re looking at is a Mono Slab. This type of foundation is not only very, very strong, but one other real benefit is that the…
Osprey and the Marina
This last week the young pair of Osprey were building away! My wife was sitting with a friend watching the Osprey bring large branches up to the platform, and they both said you could just sit here all day and watch them. They are amazing birds!! The reason I’ve slowed down on the dory is that I’ve started…
Spring Chinook – One More Day
The Feds opened Spring Chinook fishing for one more day. The poor government bastards can’t make up there minds. Can you all imagine if the real world ran there businesses like the Feds? We would all be broke! Anyway I hooked a nice one this morning!
Panoramic View for Ospreys
Today I took the day off working on the Dory and helped my good friends Henry and Craig top thirteen of my cottonwood trees. In two years they’ll fill out and look like very short health trees. I will have cut down on the amount of leaves in my gutters and pair of Ospreys will…
Osprey Platform
About 3 years ago I built an Osprey platform and had it mounted on the top of an old cottonwood tree that sits in the middle of a small grove about 50′ way from our back porch along the river. Well this last Tuesday I noticed that a pair of beautiful Osprey are building a…
Jerry’s Launch Day
Saturday. Today was a huge day for my neighbor Jerry Johnson. About 3 years ago Jerry bought an old bare lifeboat hull. He trailered that hull to his shop on Puget Island and started the long process of building a fish boat for he and is wife Nalane to enjoy on the lower Columbia. Today…