KnArrow Haus: August 2018

The corugated siding was delivered early Monday morning. I took the week off work and spent every day (and several nights) working 6 to 10 hours each day with the help of family and friends attempting to get as much done as possible. Here's the quick result:

East side

South side

West side

Honorable mentions for the week:

DevonH for loaning me his work platforms, 28' ladder, and truck to haul everything up.
BretA for spending all Monday helping me get the first 4 panels figured out and "up" on the East side of the cabin.
Colin & Abbie W for coming up Tuesday + Wednesday and finishing the cross and rest of the East wall. (They "hammocked" in the bunk room!)
TomF for borrowing a 34' ladder, hauling it up, and spending ALL Saturday getting the West wall 3/4 sided -- we'dve gotten more accomplished but I ran out of screws.
Kyle, my neighbor, for loaning me some washers, his hose spigot, and his shower on Monday night.
Isabelle for sacrificing her Saturday morning to help out measuring and marking the West wall panels.
Katie for full meal service every day, measuring & marking, and general Sherpa services ALL WEEK. What an angel. She's amazing.

I haven't been this tired and sore in a long time. Thankfully, by end of the week I was starting to acclimate to the work. We spent Monday and Tuesday night sleeping over at the cabin. But after two nights sleeping in an unheated cabin on a cot, reovering from kidney surgery, with only a portable toilet downstairs, we decided it was worth the extra gas and hour-plus drive to sleep in our own comfortable bed and use a toilet that flushes. I passed what I hope are the last of the kidney stones on Thursday morning (pictures in evidence below), and felt much better afterward.

A few lessons from the week:

Never buy a battery-powered grinder; they chew through batteries in just a couple minutes.
Buy extra metal cutting blades for the grinder.
Secure the pump jack braces with torx screws, not bolts that (that strip easily). Every single bolt that came with the pump jack braces stripped, and had to be cut off to retrieve the braces.
Put rope through the pump jack braces to secure the end of the pole as you raise it.
Anchor the bottom of the pump jack pole firmly as you raise it. This should be one person's sole assignment.
When the platform is a rockin', stop a walkin'.

What follows are a series of pictures showing the week's progression. And a time-lapse video at the end (there's a long "pause" on Katie in the middle -- bad video encoding or something, but a decent subject to look at for a minute or two.)