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

Initial cross beams and foundation pillars

Notching for the floor joists

Notched beam going over the floor joists

Didymus

Building a log cabin

Checking the corner joints

Checking the corner joints

From bow saw…

… to chain saw – smoothing the knots

working on those lap joints with the chainsaw

Now let’s agree where you want me to cut!

Here it comes!