Facebook is your FRIEND.

We know that many people (Ken included) do not like facebook...too much drama etc.  Well, while you are building a home facebook can be your friend!

This week Lisa was browsing on a local trading site and found someone who was selling this wonderful cement mixer...just what we needed.  It is a great piece of equipment and will help us do the foundation work a lot quicker.

We have also used facebook to sell some of our things that we no longer use.  Lisa keeps an eye out for building materials and other equipment everyday.  Now if someone would just post a hot tub we would be a very happy bunch of Bares. 

The Mill

When you think of a log home, you think of those wonderful round logs, well in truth some of them have to be flat on one side.  The sill logs and the loft floor joists and even the purlins for the roof have to have one side that is flat.

While most people use a special tool attached to their chainsaw to make the flat cuts, we are fortunate enough to be able to have a portable bandsaw mill.  Traditionally our mill can cut up to a 16 foot long log, but to our good fortune we found some extensions and we can now cut up to a 56 foot long log.
This will make cutting the sills, joists and purlins a quick and easy task. (we hope) Also we can now cut long dimension lumber if we need it for the floor or the roof, no scabbing pieces together...yeah!

For those who are curious, this mill is a Timber King B-16.