Chainsaw carving the notches a little

Smoothing off the knots and branches

Eddie and George

Mr Chainsaw

Balancing?

More lap joints – we were using left over poles not at full length.

Then finishing with the adze

George having a go with the adze!

Pausing!

One of the adze experts

Saw and adze

At the end of the day!

As far as we got the walls up

Collecting our own full length gum poles below the school

Months later here we are burning stones for building