Well I finally took the class in Vegas and it was great.Learned a ton of things and it really filled in some blanks and the teachers, Steve and Ellsworth, did a wonderful job of getting us to understand what we needed to at least get started. Ordered the stock plans from them for a 30x30 which was the exact size I was hoping to build and they should be here in a few days.
So now the bad news, after learning more and looking back at the size of trees I had previously marked, it looks like the vast majority of them arent big enough in diameter to build with. Not saying i cant build with them, but these small size trees i have on my land here will not have good thermal properties, which will lead to higher heating/cooling costs. This is a big problem and not sure what I need to do here. They gave some us some great resources in class for finding trees in national forests, but even if i can manage to get them for free as the class suggests, i still have the unexpected costs of getting them cut and hauled which will put a real strain on my budget now. This could conceivably bring my dream to a halt, but at the very least wont allow me to move as fast in getting started as i had hoped for. Gary (friend) was ready to bring his chainsaw and start cutting as soon as I gave him the go ahead, but now Ill have to put that on hold Im afraid
