john's Blog at LumberJocks.com http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:29:48 GMT Extreme Birdhouses Goes World Wide ! http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/21005 In the last few years i have been getting a lot of articles done for my Extreme Birdhouses including on National Geographics Animal Planet . Now i am getting all kinds of newspapers calling from around the world picking up on my work . I just recently had a article done with Cater News Agency in the U.K and goes all over the world .

Today i got a few more emails from more newspapers . http://corp.wenn.com/ and The National News in the U.K , They both go world wide ! It looks like business is about to pick up ! :-) I am Extremely excited !!

Here are a few that came out today in England , Australia and Toronto

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352459/Luxury-birdhouse-Huge-cedar-wood-mansion-comes-103-rooms.html

http://www.mizozo.com/tech/02/2011/02/john-looser-man-who-builds-mansions-for-birds.html

http://explore.dailymail.co.uk/locations/cities/toronto

]]> Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:29:48 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/21005 john john Extreme Birdhouses , Caters News U.K http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/20573 This morning i got a phone call from a newspaper publication in the U.K called Caters News Agency .
They just recently saw a segment on National Geographic that i did a while ago and now they want to do a article on my Extreme Birdhouses .
They also mentioned that their newspaper is distributed all over the world . I am very excited !! :-)

http://www.catersnews.com/users/about.php

]]> Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:58:20 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/20573 john john Deck and Gazebo http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/16350 Over the next 2 or 3 months whenever i am not building birdhouses i will be designing and building a new deck and gazebo for my son Jamie,s back yard .

The main framing of the deck will be done with P.T wood and then wrapped with cedar .
The pool is 24 ft in diameter and will have a 6 ft wide wrap around deck with a 16 ft gazebo on the end .It will also serve as the entrance to the pool . The overall size will be 36 ft wide x 52 ft long .
I will post progress pictures as we go :-)

]]> Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:31:59 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/16350 john john Reclaimed barnwood . http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/14717 In the last few months i have been watching my barn wood pile slowly fading away . It may have something to due the fact that i built close to 50 birdhouses in the last year .

Well a few days ago i was out for a drive and i stumbled onto this old barn that was falling down .It is located about 5 miles out of town from where i live .
I went and talk to the owner and he mentioned that it was great timing because he planned on taking the barn down this coming May .
I told the farmer who i was and like most people in my area they already knew who i was and what i do with barn wood .
Anyway he says give me a hundred dollars and the barn is yours . So now it looks like i will be able to continue building more of my Extreme Birdhouses for a few more years :-)
I am really excited about this barn because it has nice some great looking boards .Some of them are over 18” wide . This pile is from day 1 so far .

]]> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:13:49 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/14717 john john Extreme Birdhouses , Up They Go !! http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/12114 This past week i have been busy digging holes and putting some of my largest birdhouses up . They range from 5 ft wide up to 9 ft wide . They are all mounted 9 ft in the air . Now the little birdies will have some shelter before the snow fly,s

]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:16:59 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/12114 john john My new workshop http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/10082 I just recently bought a house a few months ago and i manage to get my own shop for a change . Beats working out of my house . lol
It was a old horse barn built in 1936 .
My shop has two storey,s and is 1,300 square ft .
I still have a lot of organizing to do .

http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/workshop

]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:08:34 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/10082 john john Garden Shed on Wheels http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/9852 I finally had a chance to move my garden shed this past weekend . It had to be moved 25 kms to my new location . The only thing i didn,t think about where the power lines . We got the shed into Cranbrook and right away we had to stop because of the lines running across the road .
I had to borrow a long stick from a neighbour to push the lines up enough to get under them . We had to do this for the entire 25 kms . What a pain in the @ss . The shed eventually got to the new location without causing any damage . Then today i had one of my new neighbours lift it off the wagon and set it in place .
Everything went smooth without any damage or broken windows .


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]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:34:08 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/9852 john john Extreme Birdhouses , week # 1 #1: Extreme Birdhouses http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/3694 Well it is finally nice to get back to work again .
I had 10 birdhouses to build then it grew to 12 yesterday so in order to get them done in good time i decided to build 4 at a time.
Six of them will be made from 80 year old barnwood and the wood will be planed down and the other six will be done with 120 year old natural barnwood.

I will be having plans made up for the most of the houses. I am also anxious to get these done so i can get back to building the large ones. lol

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]]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:59:42 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/3694 john john Garden Shed ( progress pics ) http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/2183 Hi everyone , Here are a few progress pics of my new shed.

I had a few skids of 1/2” x 6” plywood lying around ( free wood ) so i decided to use it for the exterior walls .
Then i will use 4×8 sheets of Chalet board over that and then trim everything with 1” rough pine.!
50 percent of the shed is made from reclaimed wood.

]]> Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:16:28 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/2183 john john It,s a girl http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/1541 I am happy to announce the safe arrival of my very first grandchild.
Her name is Olivia Marie
She was born July 23 rd at 5 pm and she weighed 8 lbs 14 ounces.

I will post a few as soon as i can get one.

thanks
john

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:55:27 GMT http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/1541 john john My new Garden Shed http://lumberjocks.com/cranbrook2/blog/847 This is my new garden shed that i am constructing in my spare time.
I will post progress pics as i go.
It will have 6 roofs,8 valley,s ,12 hips and 11 windows.

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