The Oldest House in Town

Today Rose and I took a long walk while Jan worked on bookbinding. It's a cold but airy day, sunny with developing cumulus clouds.  At the end of our forest walk we cut down to the corner of Härnön. Once there we saw this structure standing on a piece of wasteland. Nearby there was a pile of longer, half prepared logs and a young man working. We wandered over for a chat and soon we knew more of the story.
He had bought Härnösand's oldest house (older than the USA as he put it) and was now busy renovating it, planning to use it as workshop. I write "renovating" but this word encompasses taking the whole house down, marking each log so it can be reassembled.  The rotten logs, and structures, are replaced with new. Each new log in this picture also has a tag, D1, D2 etc. Eventually the whole house will be reassembled back on its foundation of 6 large boulders.
This section was the most visually interesting so that's made it onto Blipfoto.
The logs he was working on were up to 7 meters long and very broad. They will be the new supporting structure at the base of his house. You cannot buy logs that long commercially so he was forced to find someone with forest and basically pick out the trees he wanted, and have them cut down, roughly shaped, and moved to this site so he can work on them.
He cannot do the work on the site of the house because the plot is not much bigger than the house itself, and surrounded on all sides by more modern building. 
I think I'll be returning to this place, and eventually to the original plot to follow this work and take more pictures.