The more time you spend up around the cabin the more you see all the things like this Pink Lady Slipper. In this case these were growing in the ditch along the township road going north from the cabin.
Here's a shot of the east side of the cabin (the mud room) where we hand trenched the two power lines and the power from the well pump. Additionally we added an empty conduit to feed a future garage.
Here's one of the many smiles that happens at the camp. This is Sean, son of Nathan and Karen.
Here is the trenching crew (Floyd, Bob, Nathan, Sean, Dick, and Patrick). Somewhat bitten up, somewhat wet, but all happy that this job is done. We wanted to get up and do this before Tom Vig had to set up the forms for pouring the slab.
This is Tom Vig. We are lucky to have him for this project.
We used a string line to go directly from the old cabin to the new cabin. Dick had the tractor out to move some of the gravel piles to allow us to complete the the digging.
This was a busy day. Floyd, Sue, and I planted 71 pine and spruce trees thanks to Denise Westerberg. As you can see this was done May 21st. Last week when we drove by only one of these trees didn't make it.
Taking a little break.
These are called sonotubes and they'll be filled with cement and will subsequently support the slab. We added these four piers to support the load bearing wall inside the cabin. When I checked the bottom of the sonotubes yesterday I noticed they had a little moisture. We really did the right thing by elevating the building site.
Just a shot so you can see the 2" polystyrene which insulates the edge of the slab. You should also be able to notice the edge of the slab is roughly 12" by 12" which is typical for a floating slab.
Here you are looking east and can see the south end of the cabin on the right of the picture
Looking east again but here you can see the north side of the slab.
Here are Tom Vig and his brother Bill along with two of their nephews setting up the slab.
The new camera works! Thanks to Chris. Everyone seems to be happy with the result.
We were able to carry on a conversation with Pat Christenson with this camera.
Here's the township road on the way into the cabin. I think you are looking north about 50 yards north of our crossing.
Here's the road just before our crossing. Glenn Anderson hauled class five gravel and filled a soft spot by Israelson's crossing and a soft spot by our crossing. He charged us $65 for the gravel he used to fill the spot in our crossing.
This is the road looking south.
This is the road going south as you past Gay Allen's crossing.
Just a close shot of how the forms with the polystyrene foam.
Looking south with the west side of the slab visible on the right side of the picture.
How about this buck? Tom Vig gave us a tour of his deer farm. Pretty amazing.
Some of the pictures are out of order. Here they are starting with the forms
PKM came out and replaced the old transformer with this one. They also ran new power lines to the pole by the cabin. The removed the power from the yard lights so we will have to reconnect later this summer.
Hard to tell from the old one but this is the new Sanchicam
Here Dick is using the new plow on the 120 acres. It is very difficult to do this in ground that may have never been plowed but you have to start someplace.
I drove around the pasture to check to see if Mike Vagle had completed all the dozing we had asked. He did complete the dozing for Jeff and John but I didn't see any for Tom or Dick. As I was coming from Dick's 80 towards Tom's stand I saw this Tiger Lilly and thought I should take a picture of this as well
This is rough-in plumbing being done by Mike Whitlock and Keity Schmediberg(sp).
More rough-in plumbing as it is today. I think they need to add a couple more lines and add extensions to any verticle pipes to be above the level of cement.
Dick and I were out spraying CRP. It actually went well.
I hope a week from now we have a complete slab. I'd expect Bruce Steen to have complete his bid package (lumber, steel, windows and doors) from which we'll pick our supplier. In two weeks I would hope we are ready to start framing. This would mean the cement has been poured and has had a chance to cure for one week and we have signed papers for the construction loan and have money for this part of the project.
Bob
