Quote Originally Posted by Double_J_Ranch View Post
I have been watching this site for years. I wished I'd attended when it was close in Washington where i live. I know when Skip was alive, it was held in Monroe? I know he moves to the Phillipines and hjs since, passed away and now his son has taken over. I am glad to see they offer classes that are not on the crowded 3 day weekends, ie memorial and labor day etc. I may attend the one in Feb, hashing out logistics now.

I own outright, 40.52 acres of timberland near the Okanogan National Forest. I have a solar well on the place, have been developing the land for some time, its 2 20 acres lots side by side. I just purchased the second 20 in 2014. It has about 95% Ponderosa pines, rest of Douglas Fir. I had a well drilled back in 06 one year after I bought the first 20 acres. I have just recently trimmed out the well with a solar livestock well. Basically, I flip a switch, water runs out at about 2.8 gallons a minute. The front 20 acres if fully fenced in with 4 runs of barbed wire. I will fence off the newest addition soon.

I have a cabin I built myself on the front 20 acres. I only contracted out the foundation and the metal on the roof, rest was done by myself. I used a full footing/stemwall with no outside crawl space access. I pulled permits myself. I purchased every tool a contractor could use, air nailers of every kind, table saws, worm drive Skil, Multi tool, sawzall..... but made sure everything would run off of my Honda EU2000i generator.

Anyway, I still have the itch to retire into a log home. I have the land, I have the timber, I have plenty of space. I retire in 6 years, wife retires the same time. So I want to build out log home myself. Wifes family is all brick/stone masons, so that will help out loads.

I have pictures of my gorgeous stick built cabin, but not sure if I can post them without them being on a server.
Yeah,you are a bonehead... You shoulda taken the class in 1981 like I did. That means there is no hope for you and you will die a lonely old man in an apartment in Sultan (that's Washington... look it up Bo).