Views of the garden before we moved in on 22nd June 2012.
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From the photos above we estimated that the largest tree was about 8-9 metres high (fence is 1.75 metres) and was 11 metres from the house. A friend offered to cut the two trees down and turned up on Monday 25th June with his chainsaw. I climbed the largest tree and attached a rope. As he was doing the backcut, three of us pulled on the rope and the tree landed about 50cm from the house.
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My Dad offered to help build the base, but ending up doing almost the whole thing himself (10-15 July).
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The website said that two people could build a log cabin in 2-3 hours. I asked the delivery driver about this and he said "Not one of these mate, I built one once and it took me 3 hours just to get to roof height". It took an hour and a half just to get all the parts into the garden. After another 4 and a half hours we had almost reached roof height when it suddenly poured down with rain for about 1 hour and we called it a night.
We finally got the felt on the roof two days later. The worst job was sanding all the muddy foot and paw prints off the floor inside before treating it.
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