We use Tree Trunks as Foundations

Donated a kidney. What a fantastic person.

Wow. What a great addition to Friday afternoon here. Thanks. 🍻 🇦🇺

Definitely appreciating the old site style content!

The little city of Launceston in Tasmania is very like Nelson geographically, though just inland and had the same wood heating smoke issue - the council gave home owners rebates to switch to heat pumps and clean up the winter time Jerry 😮👍 Interesting build - it’ll have a killer view!

I have timber posts holding up my home. They have only been there for 85 years and have changed a bit in the 24 years I've owned it.

Next time you’re in Welly, get onto a tour of the parliament buildings, they show you the base isolators that can stand massive earthquakes. I think their piles are isolated with lead that melts and rapidly hardens to absorb the movement of the building. World leading tech invented here.

personally i prefer piles over concrete floor slabs. i like to be able to get under my house to do things, rather than digging up the floor with a jackhammer. the old wooden houses handle earthquakes exceptionally well. the flex they have absorbs a lot of energy. in one earthquake in the 90's in the old villa i had back then i am sure the corners of the house were out of square by at least ten degrees as it rocked. i honestly thought it would fall of its piles. we did lose the old brick chimney, but everything else was fine. now living in an old (100 year old) wooden two story you really feel the quakes upstairs in the bedroom. after the kaikoura quake we were so dizzy after it stopped shaking that it was hard to go down the stairs and get outside. but that was a 7.8 and rather large.

30+ years ago I used to do neonatal retrievals from Wellington to Nelson in a chopper. we landed on the local high school rugby field- play had to be delayed until we departed!

We live in a house built on timber poles in Nelson Bay, NSW, Australia. It a very steep block, around 50 to 55 degree slope. The house has four levels which climb up the hill, so we don't have really long poles on the down-side of the hill that would be needed to support something on one level. We do shake a bit when we get a very occasional earthquake. We also feel strong wind gusts. But we get a fabulous view. I'm another one with one kidney - cancer.

Another good reason to use timber is that they're easier to work with. You don't need to be as fussy about making sure they're all at the same height, because you can just put a laser level across them all after the fact and lop them off. Also, instead of hammering the bolts in, use a 18v rattle gun aka impact wrench. It's a LOT faster.

Timber piles are used all over the US for homes on unstable ground, timber is cheaper and has a proven trackrecord when done right. A driven pile is a proven pile.

So good SBC to see you on a building site 😎

Nice to start the day with some Scott Brown.

Some quality editing in this. Nice work

i love the ground barrier down from the start and keeping it clean. however the extremely low timber not so much. i have dug my way under way to many houses.

Fantastic righteous work. in a beautiful place...

Great video! I really enjoy seeing the building process in other countries! I love your house videos too. Great channel.

I love this. As an ex Aucklander living in Perth something I always notice is we do retaining walls differently. Everything is limestone blocks here, timber piles in NZ. Weird fascination 😂

G, day Scott Brown Carpentry from Sydney Australia. Topographic survey lines can be a handy addition to site plans or sketches. 1. Topographical lines continues 2. Never cross over 3. You can mark levels in line spaces. (Closer together the steepest terrain. Wide apart flat ground). 🇦🇺🙃

It’s nice to see you back on site and not at your house, don’t get me wrong they were great videos but your site work is way better. Have a great weekend.🇬🇧