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    • Log-Cabin Project
    Under Construction in Vera, Norway

    My Brother, and I put in the money (mostly..) and my Father + rest of the family got an old house from the 1800's, dissected it, reshaped it, and as you can see from the pictures, we're assembling it into a cabin.(Click the thumbs for a larger image.)

    Strådalen, nice place for fishing.. if you can dodge all the bears.
     View from the cabin

    Deciding where to actually put the cabin, was probably the most difficult task. We finally settled, I believe, on the least of several evils.
     Laying the first stone

    To say they where neatly assembled would be exaggerating. We lay everything out neatly during winter.. but then the snow melted...
     Materials..

    The Logbox was put in place during july/august 2000.. The time was carefully chosen so that we could closely observe the most frenetic season of tiny, bloodsucking insects.

    There are no pictures of us laying the foundations as we were way to busy dodging the mosquito's to think of photo's.
     Log upon log..

    Although the logbox was assembled in less than three days.. we did have time to enjoy ourselves up there. This is my mother and my sister.
     Plenty of breaks

    The moss was handpicked (literally) and kneeling head down in the marsh, pulling moss out by it's roots, was - as my mother put it... a bit hard.
     Moss as insulation

    The whole logbox has no nails whatsoever... being held together by the wood-locks, and wooden pegs.. and a few steel-spikes (The-tool-previously-known-as-nails.)
     And a rubber sledgehammer

    This plastic hut was our combined lunch-room and smoke-house... well, at least it kept our lunches insect-free.
     (another break..)

    Logbox done.. and the strain of walking 100 metres up to the shelter, was just too much for this logger.
     as our best argument

    But eventually some strategic ditching saw a good bunch of the mosquito's off, and the remaining few gaped in awe at what we'd done... as did we.

    So there you have it. After three days with 5 loggers.
     10 m. long

    All but one knocked to the ground by lifting the last logs up...
     5.8 m. wide

    the last few logs were 10 metres long and 30 cm. in diameter at the heavy end. so all 5 loggers were needed
     2.4 m. high

    Every good house needs a roof... and the cabin got it's roof without my help, me being stuck in China and all.. But my father and my brother did a good job of it, judging from the pictures they sent me.

    My father can easily be called the "mastermind" behind this project, as he is the only one of us that has carried a hammer around for several years.
     Eyeing the situation

    This little lake lies 50m. east of the cabin, and holds some nice trout, along with some of my best fishing-gear..
    Food-storage

    The building itself is mostly just a puzzle, and an easy one at that. The hard part, as you can imagine, was hauling everything up.
     View from east.

    We plan to put a couple of bedrooms on 2nd floor.. on the right-wing of the cabin.
    Towering

    therefore the roof is lowered slightly inside.. to avoid the "church"-feeling.
    Inside the living-room.

    It is all over for the year 2000, the construction can carry the snow, and all Norwegians will hibernate till spring 2001
    One last snap

    During winter I have been here in China, while the rest of the Rotmo-"clan" patiently have dragged the materials for the next phase over the snow and into the cabin. I for one look forward to going home.. I am also happy I have been here during this winter.. a bit work-shy at times....