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Old 01-23-2015, 12:03 AM
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As mentioned in this thread, we are building a RV hangar and retirement home.
Brian,

Sure sign of a "real pilot"?the order in which you listed what you are building?just sayin'!

Lookin' good! Though, how do you dig post holes...in Montana?in the winter!?!?

Like Vlad, looking forward to the house-warming party!

Cheers,
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Lookin' good! Though, how do you dig post holes...in Montana?in the winter!?!?


Cheers,
Bob
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Old 01-23-2015, 09:15 AM
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Brian,

Sure sign of a "real pilot"…the order in which you listed what you are building…just sayin'!

Lookin' good! Though, how do you dig post holes...in Montana…in the winter!?!?

Like Vlad, looking forward to the house-warming party!

Cheers,
Bob
Yes Hangar first! Honey, I need a place to store tools and new things for your house.
Kris keeps telling me....you get your dream location and she gets her dream loghome. We're kind if frugal spenders (ok I'm a typical pilot...cheap), so this place won't be too fancy, but we can afford it on a Dam retirement. We hope to host many fly-in friends. Might even stage a SARL race out of there.

Winter work has slow progress, but can be done with proper planning. The trees hold heat longer and help keep the ground from freezing too deep early on. We had some schedules to clear up before my materials and builder was ready.
We cleared the lot of trees during a fall warm snap and when it looked like snow was coming, within 2-3days the was a 12" blanket of snow on top of the 5" frost layer. It kept snowing and we had 2 feet of fluffy insulation protecting from the below 0 nights. Got through the holidays, peoples schedules are more flexible in the winter and we waited for a reasonable forecast of good weather.

Oscar, my dirt guy, brought in his big excavator with a iron weedwacker end that just chips the small diameter trees into mulch. Just don't be within 200 feet of it when he's working, kinda scary how far it throws chunks of wood.


Last week, Oscar said "Tuesday, I can pile snow and strip the duff". It was in the 30's for a few days so the snow was wet and the ground was soft. Frost was only 4-5" after the 8"of organic duff was removed. It was go time!



The sky was clear that night and the temp dropped to -2F. I waited for the sun to come up before leaving Townsend...a little solar heated canopy is nice. When I landed at 0920, it was about 0 but sunny and clear. By the time we laid out the corner locations and post holes, it had warmed up to about 15F. the ground had gotten very hard last night, but Jon used a mini excavator with a narrow bucket for digging. It took a few minutes at each location to chip through the frost layer. then digging down went smoothly. All the digging was done about 1300hrs and temp was mid-20's with sunshine. nice working conditions. I had to leave before all the posts were set.

Concrete around the posts yesterday and 48' trusses delivered. They'll be back on Monday to frame it up. The weather is forecast for low-mid 30's, should be easy stuff for young construction crews.

I hope to fix my wing tip in time to fly again next week.
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Old 01-23-2015, 02:53 PM
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I am going to have to come up for your house warming. Pretty sure I will be free by labor day.
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Old 01-23-2015, 09:35 PM
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Alton, you can be in charge of smoked meat, I've seen your pictures...come on up

sounds like I should have planned a t-hangar and a bunkhouse.
But we'll make room. the neighbor has tiedowns for 6+, the HOA has another 8 or so. I'll have at least 3.
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Old 01-24-2015, 07:08 AM
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Wow, that looks just incredible!

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Old 01-25-2015, 12:40 AM
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Great pictures!
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Old 01-30-2015, 09:59 PM
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Kris was off today, so I dumped a day of work to go inspect the hangar progress. Can't pass up days like this in January.




I thought it would be bigger...Aurora might not fit


Flathead Valley was socked in all day from Missoula to Whitefish..maybe Canada. glad I didn't need to land anywhere else



Back home we dropped to the ice on Canyon Ferry Lake. speed skating anyone or just want to freeze your feet while drinking Schnapps



It's about a 4.5hr drive each way. We left the hangar at 1015, zigzag around landed about 1130, talked with the crew, took pics and wrote a big check. Spent 3hrs enjoying the airpark. Launched for home at 1430, hangar door closed at 1545. elapsed time block to block <5.5hrs

Life is good and quick by RV....keep pounding those Rivets
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Old 02-05-2015, 07:10 PM
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Our Airpark neighbor snapped a quick cellphone picture and sent it to me today. Not a good pic, but looks like progress from this angle. We'll be there this weekend.

Aurora has a retirement hangar!...well almost.
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Old 03-09-2015, 11:40 AM
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the RV hangar is waiting on things to thaw out, so we can move some gravel and pour the floor.

Aurora with her new home


Backside view. there will be a courtesy car and apartment on this side


view from the runway, I still need to clear a couple trees for picnic area.


About this same timeframe in February, Our log builder sent us a picture of the log work starting.
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