#11 Spring is coming, but not just yet
so nice again today, yesterday was a bit windy, but today it's like a spotless sky this view never gets old to me, it's so beautiful, it's changing all the time now the snow is melting slowly and the colors become more and more desaturated first the grass was very yellow, but it becomes a bit more gray-ish yellow right now and it's not just the view, it's also the the silence and the silence is not the absence of sound but of static noise. when i'm in the city, when i'm in amsterdam, there is this constant [...] when i'm recording videos there it's more difficult to get the sound right because the microphone has trouble picking up the details, the silence here it's just like you hear every little... you hear the grass moving, sounds in the trees when there's a little wind coming and it's all around me, and it changes all the time it's very subtle, the other sounds here are... there's a river coming down, a small stream coming down the mountains here and then continue as a river, down towards the valley, so there's this constant little like [...]
and depending on the wind that picks up sometimes a lot more quiet, when it's very cloudy you hear nothing, like the other day i was in the clouds, and it's like you're underneath a blanket it's very subtle, it's very beautiful, it's so different, it gives, sort of, head space when you come here, when i come out of the car, when i've been into town it's always so nice and that's part of the view, is the sound i remember camping in the desert on my bike trips, you can hear the small spider crawling underneath your tent, you hear your heart beating in your throat, it's beautiful it can be like tricky as well, but most of the time it's beautiful yeah can a view make you happy? i think it can, like this view never gets old to me and i'm looking forward to see it very slowly change through the weather but also through the seasons, when it's becoming more green again in a few months it's really beautiful it's just a temporary solution, i'm using so little water right now i'm just draining out of the window i don't have running water yet, so it's just for just washing hands this is good first birds... spring is coming so finally, that tarp is off i wanted to talk about the stones, how to get them off the roof and put them back on if i read through the comments on chapter nine, which was about the crane, a lot of people were making suggestions of, why don't you do it just like this, and i appreciate all the ideas and suggestions and i want to go over a few of them, because the reason why i choose a boom crane is because you have a lot of control over both vertical and horizontal movement and in principle it's a very simple system, it's just a one beam on a fulcrum and on a tripod and the good thing is that you can lift up stones, you can rotate and then winch them down so you have a lot of control, because the stones need to go off the roof and then be laid on the ground next to the roof, past the scaffolding, and if you have only vertical lifting you're not there yet a solution that would come close is a gantry crane, which is basically two poles and a vertical in between there's a winch that could move, and the whole system could move over rails or on wheels but in order to get the stones off the roof, beyond the scaffolding, it would need to be such a big system and the rail system needed to be built on a very uneven ground the slope is quite steep and there's this little building next to it it would be a very big thing to build, so therefore i think a boom crane is is more suitable. people were mentioning log cabins, how they raise up the logs to build the cabin, usually what people build for that is also mostly vertical lifting on four specific points next to the walls, and usually logs are carried to the building using like a sort of a gliding system, or they're pulled in with a truck or a tractor but again, the lifting is mostly vertical with some pushing and pulling to get the logs in place it won't really work for here because these stones are not only heavy, they're also oddly shaped and they have sharp edges, so they're difficult to work with the reason why i want to have a crane for myself, which is built actually for the specific job is because there's a lot of lifting to do, first this cabin, taking stones on and off, i might need to replace a beam and also for the the floor beams of that cabin need to be replaced, there's a bit more work on that cabin to do so once i have a crane i can use it for so many things, also there are some flat stones on the ground over there very big and heavy ones and i'm thinking of making a table on the viewpoint there. because how they did this back in the day, many people asked, they'd have a lot of manual labor, for lifting the the most heavy stones up they used a thing called a 'paranco' which is basically a block and tackle in some shape or form, but once the stone was on the roof they would move it around with six, seven people, like there's a few very big ones... usually the cornerstones are very heavy
there's one in the middle which is very big, and a lot of manual labor, but labor was cheap back in the day people were poor and there were so many people living here in the mountains they were all peasants and farmers, and they wanted to eat so they were happy to help out but a modern contractor nowadays they would use a crane, they would do it with two or three people it's frozen to the rubber... there's the sun got a batch of recycled wood, this is all chestnut, these are going to be the verticals for the scaffolding, i have 40 of these, a few of them are still at the sawmill, together with two large planks, beams which are for the crane, they are like five meters long and six by twenty five, so they're heavy beams i don't know if i can get them up with the jimny, it's going to be a quite tall but these are nice, got them for a good price and i can use them for all sorts of things chestnut is the the main building wood here in this area, like beams, ridge beams rafters, they all use... and also window frames, door frames they use chestnut for that because it's a nice hardwood, it's very durable it does split, quickly, but it's very durable you can put it in the ground and it stays good for years, for outside is perfect for the scaffolding it's gonna be great and i can reuse it later for something else so the inside cabin is completely finished, i'm warm, i have a good place to sleep, i can cook i can work, i got internet, i got power, there's a mast on top of the hill, so i've got a hot spot here, and yeah i've been living a bit more inside, because it's been cold the past weeks also cooking i do inside now, it's comfortable everything inside here is temporary probably until summer, or a little bit after, it depends on how the building, the renovations from the actual cabin go, but i'm planning to take it apart again and put it somewhere on the hill i have to look into permission, but it's a very light build, no concrete foundation or anything so as a temporary thing, whilst i'm working on the cabins, i think it should be fine but i have to look into it so the look and feel is sort of scandinavian, minimalistic... looks a bit like a sauna, it's not going to be the style of the cabin i'm not going to build an inner cabin permanently here in this one because i think it's a bit too small and it's going to be much more dark woods, and more traditional, more antique stuff which i think is a better fit for this cabin, i build it like this because it's quick to build, and it's quickly made sort of a comfortable space it took me about 10 days to finish it, so i can really focus my time on working on the actual cabin yeah it's a nice place to stay, i'm comfortable here it's getting colder, it actually snowed tonight, so next week i'm going to focus on on the crane and preparing the roof renovation, but there's gonna be quite a bit of snow, i think the forecast is looking not too good, it's still winter... all right thanks for watching, see you next week
2022-03-12 04:41
