Lada, at last

[kareina]

In October of 2013 we found a "lada" (small timber barn) for sale on blocket, and brought it home. We didn't have time to put it up that autumn, so we stacked the timber by the side of the car port and waited till this autumn (2015) to put it up. I have never helped put one up before, and was pleasantly surprised at how quickly it goes.

lord_kjar's little brother drove up from Skellefteå this morning, arriving sometime after 08:00, and at 08:36 we went outside and got to work. At that point the place we were going to put it looked like this:



It took the three of us 49 minutes to unstack all of the timber and sort it to the correct sides of the foundation (whomever took it apart wrote letters and numbers on the logs on the inside, so that it would be easy to put it back together). They carried all of the long timbers, and I moved the short ones (that go on either side of the door opening).

Another hour and 20 minutes later the walls were up higher than the top of the door, and I was getting hungry, so I went in and started cooking a spaghetti sauce for lunch while the boys kept working. They got the walls up as high as they go in another hour and a half (including drilling out old broken pegs and making new ones for the peaked part of the roof (which, of course, doesn't have any logs intersecting it from the side), by which time lunch was ready.

After lunch I helped them unstack and carry out of the shed the old boards we have from their dad for use as roof supports, which took about an hour. By that time my apprentice arrived, and she and I went into the house to work on the Norrskensbard Cloak project, while the boys got to work on the roof. We took a break after another hour for fika (blueberry cake!), and then more cloak progress inside, and roof work outside.

Then I was feeling hungry again, so I started a bread dough to make pizza for dinner, while my apprentice kept stitching. Then her partner arrived to pick her up (he had been spending the afternoon with his laurel), so I ran to the store to get a few pizza toppings.

The pizza was ready to eat about 10 hours after we started work this morning, by which time the boys had gotten the roof this far along:



and the cloak, which has now had forty hours of work was this far along:



I would like to point out how it isn't fair that the cloak has had four times as many hours as the lada, yet it doesn't look anywhere near as far along...

Comments

[rustmon.livejournal.com]

Wow! Awesome!