May 2nd, 2018: Kotasarri island
 

The four seasons on Kotsarri Island Finland.

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Four seasons? Enjoy ‘em while you can.

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Looks perfect for Moomins.

Those must be screen caps from a Legend of Zelda game !!

O M G I'm so tempted to build this out in Lego, as a Dungeons and Dragons setting.

Where do they store the dock for the winter? If it were me, I would just pull it up onto the shoreline. But it's not there. Do they tow it across the lake? It's too big to fit through the doorway of the barn.

Burn it for heat?

Spring, Fall, Winter, and Second Winter.

Obviously it's sectional, and may break down even further.
How do you know it won't fit through the barn door, you can't see the barn door in any of those pictures.

Why do they have to remove it for the winter at all? Maybe the pictures aren't in order, and they actually just happened to build a dock for the first time that spring.

Ha! So I played a super short D&D game last weekend just teaching a middle schooler the ropes, first time since like 1985. The Dungeon Master really knows his craft, damned entertaining.

The ramp leading to the double doors looks like the barn door to me. And the double doors are smaller than the dock. Other pictures at the link show the left side of the barn and there appears to be no door there, and the right side had canoes stacked next to it, so there must be no door on that end.

THE barn door, the main door, is always at the end of the barn under the peak of the roof.

There are several more photos and a couple of videos available to answer that question, but not why they leave the ladder up year-round.

The ladder is for chimney fires, quite common with people who burn wood in Canada and rural US.

The ladder or the fires?
I clean and sweep my chimneys every fall to avoid the fire part of things.
My neighbor's made like a Saturn V several years ago and made me a believer.
Darned if the ladder isn't still up.

Need Advice, sounds like
 

I've got an old Fisher 'Mama Bear' wood stove in my workshop/apartment. What should I be doing for off-season creosote maintenance? And what situation do I need the ladder up at all times for--what would I do if I got up there and there's a fire??

What you do is cap it, choke off the draft. With draft it will melt the pipe and set the roof/attic on fire.

That's my experience as well. But this one seems to not have a large door under the peak at either end.

Turns out it was a boathouse and is now used as a tavern. The walls are louvered, so a breeze flows through. I don't know if it was that way for the boats to dry out, or if they did that for the tavern.

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No wonder Finland is a third world shithole they can't even build a barn right. :haha:
And they're mean, sitting on their pets.

I'd guess the louvered walls was to dry boats.

It'll burn down soon enough with those candle chandeliers.

Just the thought of taking the dock in and out every year would be enough to make me say, "sorry, we're not having a dock." I used to think a year was a long time in between odious tasks; now, not so much.

Plus 3 for awesome!

The funny thing was this was their solution for the lad being a little socially awkward...