Already having shouted myself a decent skill saw, a Paslode framing nailer, a Hitachi battery drill+impact driver, and a welding machine from the two garage builds, I now needed a decent drop saw. No problem.
However, I also needed an additional ‘something’ to cut the 8x6-inch American logs cleanly in one cut. No drop saw was big enough. So, I had the bright idea of getting a 300mm Hitachi metal cut-off saw, popping on the biggest (fire) wood saw blade I could get, 405mm, and using that — health and safety were always involved, of course.
I had to weld a new guard for it. Even with that on, it’s an animal when you pull the trigger! As a former skydiving instructor, I do like a bit of excitement and danger, risk/benefit ratio, and all that. Respecting the medieval animal I had created, it actually worked a charm, and I can convert it back to the metal saw; two for the price of one — another win.
Time to make the bucks
With the floor completed, I finished the footing for the exterior walls and started by making the exterior door and window frames — ‘bucks’ they’re called in the log home game.
All the interior walls are normal framing — American 4x2 is 90mm x 38mm. The exterior walls were machined logs, double tongue and groove
