About: Third Stone

In 2019, I finally got to work on our long anticipated sugar shack so that we could boil sap under cover & out of the wind. During the early spring, I cut down white pine trees that had been blown over or broken during the last two winters. With Chris’...

After years of talking about building a sugar shack to house our maple syrup operation, 2019 became the year of action.  The work really began in the early winter making plans and designs and reading about how to build using timber frame techniques.  My goal was to use wood from...