We had a great weekend at the cabin. We could not have asked for more perfect weather. Mort, Pete, and myself arrived around 12:30pm on Friday and quickly got to work. We started on the backside of the cabin since it has the fewest windows.
As the day progressed, we moved around to the front and started working our way up.
We worked until dark (which is now around 7:30pm). We made a great deal of progress on Friday (which gave us a false sense of how much longer the remainder of the cabin would take).
The next morning we were working by 8:30am. Iver showed up a little while later and we then split into two teams. Mort and myself worked on the garage side peak while Iver and Pete started on the opposite side. We were thinking that we would be completely finished by early to mid afternoon.
As the day progressed, we ran into a few snags and had to redo a few sections of the side and front to make sure the siding all aligned correctly in-between the windows and the doors. This set us back a couple of hours. The top couple of the feet of the siding seemed to take longer than the seven or so feet below it. The gable ends also took longer than expected due to the constant moving of ladders. Scaffolding would definitely be a necessity for a job that was any bigger than this one.
By 5pm or so we had completely finished our first side. It's the gable end opposite the garage side. I was very happy we had taken the extra steps and care to make sure things aligned.
Within the next few hours we managed to finish the remainder of the structure off. It was almost completely dark out when we finished.
I am happy to say that it looks great! I would like to give a big thanks to Pete, Mort, and Iver for working so hard and doing such professional work. I'm so happy with how it turned out.
Well, that's all for now. I've got to figure out exactly what we will be doing next year. I'm kind of liking this annual guys working weekend. Maybe if I'm fortunate enough next year we will have a big sheet rocking weekend. :-)
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