Hauling, round two
With
Mark on the job, our second round of plywood hauling went much more
smoothly than the first. While I was finishing
up the inside walls of the homemade
storage building,
he wandered off to the barn and rigged a holder out of discarded boards
within half an hour. If I hadn't overloaded it ("Surely twelve
boards won't be too many to carry between us!"), it would have been
perfect, but as it was we barely made it two thirds of the way
home. Luckily, that's where dry ground begins, so Mark was able
to go get the golf cart and drive our load back to the building.
Meanwhile,
I hauled in some more insulation using the old hoe trick. You
stick the handle of the hoe through the plastic wrapper of two rolls of
insulation, pushing one roll all the way back to the hoe blade so that
your head has room to sit between the two rolls. Stuff some
discarded underwear under your coat as a shoulder pad, and it's pretty
simple to carry the insulation home. Now we're all set to start
on the ceiling next week!
"Is that men's underwear sticking out of your jacket pocket?" Mark
asked in disbelief as I set out.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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