by Alan Stankevitz | Jul 19, 1998
Excavation Begins! Over the last week, Russ Wulf and Mike Barney have been busy digging into the hillside to level out an area approximately 65′ in diameter. The outside footings for the house will be 41’6″ in diameter leaving 12′ of clearance...
by Alan Stankevitz | Apr 1, 1998
First Quarter Update The first quarter has come to an end and we have achieved most of our goals. The house design has been coming along nicely. We had an opportunity last week to meet with a couple of building contractors / excavators. We wanted to get their input as...
by Alan Stankevitz | Feb 8, 1998
The Second Great Wall of Cordwood With the help of Jo, we got the second wall complete (Another 7′ x 54′ wall). That now makes about 24 face cords of wood stacked. I estimate that we have about another 4 to 5 more to go. That puts us real close to what we...
by Alan Stankevitz | Nov 29, 1997
The Great Wall of Cordwood With my measly kerosene heater in hand, I was able to stack the first row of wood. The wall is 8′ high and almost 54′ long. It’s necessary to stack the wood for a few of reasons. The first reason is to determine really how...
by Alan Stankevitz | Nov 19, 1997
Well, so much for being neatly stacked… Somewhere behind the pile of wood is what was the nicely stacked wood. The wood shown here is two truck loads worth of wood (24′ long Ryder truck). We didn’t have time to stack the wood because… The plan...
