A 24 x 20 shed from leftover logs and trimmings.

Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Taking a short brake from the house and working on our shed.

I decide to use some hardwood logs for our shed wall
that have been sitting outdoors for about a year.
They were cut to make a clearing and for posts and beams
for a wrap around porch on the house.
These were the left overs. I hate waste...so

These will just be nailed to the posts. You can use a post and beam and
small log assemblage this way without any need of lifting equipment.
Though they are small they are extremely heavy hardwood...oak and hickory.

Running the saw blade between the logs helps them sit closer.

This shed was thrown up in a hurry as a shelter for our small bandsaw.
But now I can take some of our left over logs and build some walls.
The logs are too small to waste time milling but are good hardwood logs for a shed wall.

Here I am putting in a simple block for a post. I use some gravel under it so that I can create
a variable height which can tighten the fit of the post I will jam in between the floor and beam

So here the post in jammed in with pressure.

I like this rustic log look to go with our strawbale house...
so much nicer than a metal shed.

The boys fix this cute old shed door.

The shed needs an adjustment to take out a little lean that occured when
the shed ran into someones tractor bucket :) So we get ready to pull the
post with a cable and drop in a diagonal log for stability.

The post in straightened (looks crooked due to lens distortion) and the diagonal is
set in place.

Using old wood trimmings from our milling for siding.
This shed is almost entirely built
from the woods we cleared except for the tin on the roof of course.
Next I will add some fire wood walls
on the back wall.

Internal Wall with most bales on their sides...still surprisingly strong!

Strawbales in the Snow (video)!

Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Insulating our foundation and other stuff.

Adding foam to insulate our floor perimeter. We would have preferred to use lava rock,
but it is too expensive to ship here to Missouri.

Pink zero ozone foam for the wall.

Floor waiting for our next level of road base to go on top of this
crushed lime

No. This character is not dead....I rescued him from the window
and now he is both pretending to be dead and biting
this towel that he thinks has attacked him...eyes closed except
the occasional peak. Took him a while to figure out he was free.

OK guys...It is COLD out here...animal cruelty! Cat's deserve
your loyalty.

Building a wool cavity box in a box.

Cut a hole for the door.

There is wool all round the walls, floor and ceiling.

Cover with plastic or tar paper for a better look.

Building an internal sound room and editing bay with straw bale.
I use the bales on their sides for a thinner wall using less bales.

Flat thin items can help slide that last bale into the tight spot.

Some wrens like our bare bale walls in the winter.

Saving these log cuts for decoration in something. The outer ones
are mulberry...pretty color and they seem to resist splitting.

A lot of snow and cold this year

Bobcat on our property.