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I got the property from my Dad, after searching high and low for the perfect place. I designed it all myself, ran the strength of materials numbers through the various formulae...You can still get land here for less than $1K an acre so thats a barrier which can be overcome. All the major timbers you see there, I cut from the woods on the property and sawed them with my uncle at his mill, trading my labor in his hayfields for his saw time. The basement was poured at cost by another cousin, who now has the right to call on me for whatever/whenever. Thats another cousins (see a pattern here?)log picker we're lifting the bents with and all the guys are volunteers, because its not everyday you get a chance to assemble something like that. I cut all the joinery and have done the rest of the carpentry, electrical and plumbing, while my wife pays the bills and does a lot of the fussy work, paint, spackle, etc... We've been at this on and off for about three years, working part-time, paying cash and going slow, with the only loan being under $10K for the mandated sand mound septic system... don't get me started... See that Ted shed... we lived in that man... no water/septic he he maybe I don't follow all the stupid laws....
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