On Friday nite, July 27, this semi-trailer arrived with a load of logs (81 in total) from Dry Creek a sort of commune located 20-30 miles from Delta Junction, Alaska on the Alaska Hwy. Over the next 3 days the logs were peeled and moved to the building site, which is about 100 yards down the hwy. As you will see in the following pictures, these logs are, what is called, 3-sided. This means 3 sides have been milled flat in a saw-mill. What will be the outside part of the log is left round to give that round log look to the cabin. Inside you get a flat wall.
Last bundle. There were 3 stacks but I forgot to get a picture when we started. Doh!
The scene on Friday nite after the 2 hour un-load, using the Bobcat in background.
Different angle.
The scene around the middle of the second day of peeling. On the first day, I peeled about 25 logs. Fortunately only one side needed peeling. When we built the lake cabin with full-round logs, I was lucky to get 7 to 8 logs done in a day. My Mom, who was up visiting for 2 weeks came by on Sat. evening and peeled a few logs with me. She turned 60 a week before. "I could peel logs all day", were her words! And she could.
My friend Lee giving me a hand on Sunday. Her help was greatly appreciated and made it so I my last day of peeling went much faster.
Poser
Peeling the last log. Quite a pile of bark shavings on the ground there. The logs had been dried in a kiln (the folks at Dry Creek use the waste saw-dust and other waste wood to fire the kiln) for about 5 days. This dried out the bark and made it a bit harder to peel as opposed to the logs being wet and the bark coming off much easier, sometimes like a banana. But with the monster draw knife (borrowed from a friend of David's), as seen in this picture, the process went pretty smooth. I had sore arms and upper back but a day after the last log was peeled I felt fine.
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