The way in!

This last week we worked on a way to get into the cabin without tearing up the swamp any further. It was getting a little soft from more than a few trips in and out over the last year with fourwheelers and the buggy.

 My Son Travis showing off the hard work on a boardwalk over the swamp, and our beater Honda 4wheeler.

This our other helper. A $500 Kubota 4x4 tractor I found in Cordova. This picture is Christmas Day 2012, and that lump of snow behind it is my Wifes' Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Finally, some progress!

Wow, almost three years since the last post. We are starting on our Cabin in earnest this summer (if it ever gets here). We got started this winter with some help from Hopkins Bros. Construction. They brought some equipment in and cleared the cabin site of stumps, leveled a pad, and hauled in a travel trailer to the site.

This is the Site before we went to work on it. You can see that we have to go across the Muskeg to get there. That is my buggy in front of where the cabin will be.

This is February. We built a snow road in with a D-5 Cat.

 A little equipment time goes a long way...

 Like magic, starting to look like somewhere we could live.

Todays Sidetrack: the Ship I work on in Cordova, AK. The M/V Chenega. 19,000hp Fast catamaran car ferry.

These are four 10kw Lister generators I picked up in Ketchikan. One will end up being the powerplant for our homestead. They were old Alascom units.