by Alan Stankevitz | May 22, 2001
The Chop-Saw Gets the Axe After numerous attempts at preventing logs from flying off the table, I have shelved the chopsaw idea. The chopsaw does work when cutting long logs to 8″ lengths, but when attempting to cut 16″ logs in half, it was difficult to...
by Alan Stankevitz | May 8, 2001
The First Wall (1 of 64) On Sunday, May 6th the first logs were placed into position marking the start of what will prove to be a long road towards completing the walls. I chose one of the back walls of the house to be the guinea pig. I figure if there’s...
by Alan Stankevitz | May 5, 2001
Chop Saw Build How much wood could a chop saw cut if a chop saw could chop wood? Faced with the fact that I have 32 face cords of 16″ wood that has to be cut in half, I decided to cut to the chase and build a cheap chop saw. If you recall, the January 27th issue...
by Alan Stankevitz | May 3, 2001
To Use Paper or Not? To Use Paper or Not? That is the question. The use of papercrete mortar for cordwood construction has been limited (so far) to the works of Paul Reavis and James Juczak. Traditional papercrete (there’s an oxymoron) is made of almost all...
by Alan Stankevitz | Apr 28, 2001
Lightning Protection System Spare the Rod and Spoil the House Last summer I had quite a scare when the house took either a direct or indirect lightning hit. Although no damaged occurred, my heart pounded for at least 10 minutes afterwards. So as quick as a flash, the...
