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Agreed. I know many a fellow who would gladly take on a rebuild of those bones. Hell, I would have, not so many years past.

I'll see about getting a few pics of the finishing touches, hopefully soon.

Skipped Scouts, too much godliness for my tastes, even as a 10 year old. Did join an Explorer Post at about 15, had a couple of high school buddies who were in, we had a good group that focused on backpacking and caving, 'til most of us graduated HS and headed off to college. A side...

Not a single thing, Willie. We had the good fortune to fall into access to a batch of bigleaf maple that Longview Timber elected to leave behind on the landings after a harvest nearby. They give a few free permits out to local folks, and we we lucky enough to be in the right place/right time...

Yeah, I live in a pretty mild climate. We have our times of real cold weather, which at my house means teens down to occasional sub-zero single digits...but most of the time a cold night is 20 degrees. Plenty of the winter nights it'll be not much below freezing.

Looks good, Jack.

Oh, you bet, my friend. Since it took us several weekends, I've been rewarding myself on a returning basis :D.

Stig, a cord is traditionally 4'x4'x8', which equals 128 cubic feet. My converter program tells me that equals 3.624556 cubic meters. Your 30 cubic meters equals 1059.44 cubic feet, which converts to 8.276875 cords. Which is about 4 times as much wood as I use per heating season, say...

A third of the roofing is leftover packing layers from various batches of roofing or siding that we've bought over the years...the Metallion Industries plant is just outside of Estacada, and sells both wholesale and retail. The rest is brand new :). I lay down a couple of runs of scrap 2x4...

We've been steadily working at replacing a 20+ year old firewood storage structure this early winter. It's mostly finished at this point...some siding to be added as the spirit moves us and decent weather to do light construction presents itself :). The old structure was just a run of 7 split...