Butte Blocks (for the people)

More progress. I have started the second tier of planking. This cedar is a joy & delight to plane down. I have a big old wooden smoothing plane I bought last year off ebay and it just eats the planks up. Gah. It's like spreading butter on an english muffin.


Here's a picture of some of the lovely yellow locust I'm using for butte blocks.


And here's a butte block in place, lovingly smooged into place with sikaflex and screwed down with bronze #12 screws. (In truth, I might prefer bolts, but my accountant glares at me every time I bring that up.)