Spruce River Lodge

On Saturday, most members of our deer camp assembled to begin construction on our new "shack". The old shack (no quotes needed) was built in the late 30's by my grandfather and his hunting buddies. Time has not been good to the dwelling. I'll leave it at that, since the feeling of nostalgia is stronger than that of disgust.

Jamyn showed up with his construction trailer, which had enough tools and supplies for 6 men to build 10 houses. We worked in teams engineering the base plates and laying out the exterior walls, cutting studs for the walls, building the walls, and fastening bild-rite and Ty-vek to the walls. All of the teams worked in concert to raise and support the walls once they were raised.

It was a good day for work, the weather cooperated, and the teamwork was fantastic. We were able to put up all 4 exterior walls, set the trusses, and put purlins on half of the trusses. If the rain would have held off on Sunday, we could have started fastening the steel roof.
We won't be able to use the "shack" this deer season, but will definitely use it next season and hopefully another 70 years....Long live the Dingle Creek Boys and the Spruce River Lodge!!!