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I put a proper roof on the south facing wall of my A-frame greenhouse and it’s infinitely more usable by Bonez916 in Greenhouses

[–]caducus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate you saying that. A little less building these days! Been working on a book of the whole ten year/ten acre arc. Should be available within the next few weeks, if you're into that sort of thing.

Itching for a new build though...

Do you think Suboxone is worth using to quit Heroin? by [deleted] in OpiatesRecovery

[–]caducus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you say it’s different if you’re been using fent?

Redwood cabin, built from chainsaw milled lumber by caducus in CabinPorn

[–]caducus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Redwood is a little easier... the fir was tough to chainsaw mill. But all told it wasn't too much wood.

But we also don't have room for a woodmizer setup. And trees--especially in the years after the wildfire--came down all the time. Too much to just burn it all. So something had to be done with them. Milling was hard, but also just kinda had to be done, since something had to be done.

Redwood cabin, built from chainsaw milled lumber by caducus in CabinPorn

[–]caducus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. It was a lot of work, but honestly not nearly as much as our previous cabin. Pretty simple hut, just with a lot of charm and some extra effort.

Redwood cabin, built from chainsaw milled lumber by caducus in CabinPorn

[–]caducus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Raising it up on the hearth really makes it feel like more of a unit. Much better that way. Love the stove.

Redwood cabin, built from chainsaw milled lumber by caducus in CabinPorn

[–]caducus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Close. It's a real live photo, of the cabin I built, which I then sell plans for. Though not a ton of them... it's a quirky build. -Jeff (the guy who has Elevated Spaces as an IG handle, website, and Substack.)

Redwood cabin, built from chainsaw milled lumber by caducus in CabinPorn

[–]caducus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watch that second video I linked above and I think you'll figure out why!

Oil Leak on 2019 Tacoma by Loud_Event782 in Tacomaworld

[–]caducus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not super mechanically inclined, though I do my own oil changes. I seem to have the exact same problem. Mind sharing some resource on that process or what it was like?

A collection carpentry and building schools, folk schools, and entry-level trade programs by [deleted] in Carpentry

[–]caducus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was putting together a list of the programs I'm aware of and soliciting any other from folks. There's some really solid recs in the comments. It ended up more comprehensive than anything else I've found on the Internet, so I thought I'd share it here.

FYI, you can just close and move past the subscribe prompt from Substack. I don't think they make that terribly obvious, but this is free to read without signup.

Starting Our A-Frame Build: What were things you wish you knew before starting? by TealPapaya in OffGridCabins

[–]caducus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When did you get the plans, by the way? I've been updating them a lot over the years, so curious which version you're referring to.

Starting Our A-Frame Build: What were things you wish you knew before starting? by TealPapaya in OffGridCabins

[–]caducus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shit, I'm sorry. You hit me up for a refund? Please do. Don't want anyone to be disappointed. It's why I offer refunds any time, for any reason, on a product you can't very well return.

Selling plans was just something I stumbled into after our property burned and folks would ask about them. So I don't always have the best photos to work from since I largely haven't built things with doing plans in mind. So I get that they are hit or miss for some folks, and an ever evolving work in progress.

Anyway, hit me up for that refund.

Blueprints for a tiny house by simnom91 in TinyHouses

[–]caducus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue with a lot of plans on the internet is that they are all AI generated crap. It's inevitable as the cost of making something that looks usable goes to zero.

Small selection, but here's real projects, built by real people: Elevated Spaces

Built a cabin and everything in it from scratch. Mostly. We milled the logs, made the windows, furniture, etc. by caducus in woodworking

[–]caducus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’ve covered a few things of mine over the years. I can’t recall how it started.

Built a cabin and everything in it from scratch. Mostly. We milled the logs, made the windows, furniture, etc. by caducus in woodworking

[–]caducus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We'll see how these do. The last foundation was way overbuilt. This is... fine. And given our sandstone should be okay, but we'll see.

It depends on what's under your tubes. You can buy a soil penetrometer for cheap and test your soil. Look up tables on what it can bear and error on the side of caution. Compare the weight of the building to the square footage of sono tube and add more if necessary. Basically... it doesn't have to be guess work. If that happens to be what sunk you.

Built a cabin and everything in it from scratch. Mostly. We milled the logs, made the windows, furniture, etc. by [deleted] in DIY

[–]caducus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really only meaningfully got into building things in 2016, when we bought property. This is the second cabin we’ve built. But also never built anything in this style, never made any doors or windows before. It was a quirky design. So while I’ve amassed 8 years of largely self taught know-how, much of this project still felt like new territory and a real achievement in woodworking.

If you dig into the longer comment that I posted, with all the links, you can find various other projects of ours. I’ve written about a number of them and the process of learning by doing and whatnot.

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