My goal going in was to get a roof on before winter this year. This weekend we reached that goal. All of the main stuff is pretty much done. Next year will be cutting out windows, chinking cracks and doing finish work. The hard labor is complete. Here are some interesting stats:
* Started cutting down trees on May 2nd.
* Finished the main structure this weekend, October 19th.
* Worked on the cabin 20 out of 25 weekends.
* Used 2 weeks of vacation time.
* A round trip to the cabin from our house is around 650 miles.
* 650 miles x 20 weekends = 13,000 miles on my truck
* 13,000 miles / 16 miles a gallon = 812 gallons of gas x $2.40gal = $1,948 on gas.
* Round trip = 10 hour drive. 10hrs x 20 weekends = 200 hours spent driving.
* Dad worked with me just about every weekend. With a conservative estimate of 20 hours worked per weekend you get: 20 hours x 2 people x 20 weeks = 800 man hours. We also had help from Terry, Denny, Roxie, Tory and Steve. Figure another 150 man hours for that. Total man hours ~ 950!
* If you also calculate out the amount of time and money Dad spent getting up there you can double my own figures above! Pretty amazing.
* THEN if you figure in all of the breakfasts, lunches and dinners that were prepared by Jean, Faye and Shelly you have to figure in about 400 more hours.
I am truly lucky to have a family willing to do all of this to help me out with my crazy ideas! As evidenced above I couldn't have done it by myself. Thanks everyone!
I'll probably be finished updating for the winter but will start up again in the spring. Here's the pictures:
