Never before seen images from the hi-tech side of logging, we can now exclusively show you THE WORLDS MOST POWERFUL FLYING CHAINSAW, invented here in Troutbeck Look at all the toys she has on board …the new levtek seat AND the tree-o-scope vision system … Finally we get some idea of the power behind this machine. … Continue reading
Although these look like walls – they are in fact the foundation walls build on top of the footings i.e. they will be below the level of the final building ground floor. Here is the idea in progress – the foundation walls now part way up. and here, showing a temporary retaining wall … Continue reading
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Here are some ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots – so we can see how far we’ve come since 1st April 2014! At the beginning – a burnt out shell of a building and suddenly .. And again from the inside – the original door and window to its left. … Continue reading
After burning some of the granite rock out of the way we start digging. How hard can it be after all? Well up here what you see on top is not what is lurking underneath – more rocks. And it is a building site with a pretty good view too. … Continue reading
Well the stairs were a bit of a mission in of themselves. To start with they had to follow the curve of the rondavel, plus I had the fine idea to make them wider at the bottom than the top. So what yours truly didn’t realise is that making a single laminated plank a) angle … Continue reading
Eastern Highlander 