The beginning

It all started on the 5th of November 2016. That's when we decided to build. We wanted to buy land from near my dad's organic vegetable farm. It took some weeks contacting the land owner to ask will he sell and waiting for an answer. Those weeks felt long and we were making plan B and plan C in case the land wouldn't be sold. But the owner did decide to sell and we were delighted! We bought the land on the 14th of December 2016. At the same time also my dad bought land surrounding his fields and our plot. That makes it easier for us because now we can make the road through his land.

In the end of December we started clearing trees to make the road that will lead to our home. The road will be off the road that leads to my dads farm and it will be about 750 meters long. It has to be cleared a shocking 12 meters wide for the digger to be able to work. The clearing we do happens with a motor saw, a billhook and and ax. We have recently found a good pattern to go about it. I chop with the billhook low branches off the trees so that it is easier for Mick to come along and saw the trees down. When he has sawed a good amount of trees down we chop the rest of the branches off all along the tree. The trees that we will use for the building we carry in a pile for peeling. Until now we are saving all the suitable size spruce trees for building. Spruce is what we will mainly be getting off this road and it's a strong tree type to be using. The rest so birch, aspen and alder Mick cuts up into suitable length's for firewood and we pile them up as well to be taken away later.