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Skidding hardwood logs by hand

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There is a new hydro scheme planned on the Gairezi river and they have just cut the transect for the route of the pylons.

Being Nyanga this includes cutting down two of the three invasive tree species – Pine and Wattle (the third is Eucalyptus).

Here we are skidding logs onto the trailer:

Skidding logs on logs

 

With a log ramp onto the trailer

 

Time to roll up hill

 

 

 

Nearly there

 

 

Or if lighter they get carried

 

and a long one

 

 

We have a lesson in knot tying

 

Well loaded up

 

Loaded front and back

 

As its all firewood for us to burn stones with we take it all – large and small

Building a real log cabin – part 7a – towards the end of chinking and caulking

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Having nearly completed the exterior caulking we turned to the interior to escape some high altitude cloudy windy rainy days.

 

cleaning up the beams after the mess of chinking

 

Willard using his newly built ladder in the stairwell

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr Paul clearing up the mess of wood chips and caulk

 

 

Didi planing the floor joists

 

Mr Tongai helping the carpenters with the floor joists this week

 

 

Mr Daniel starting the roofing effort

 

The floor joists are finished for the day!

 

 

 

 

 

Building a real log cabin – part 7 – chinking or caulking between the logs

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Now this is good – we brew our own chinking, or caulk, and get to work on those horizontal gaps between the logs:

We start out one afternoon

 

Mr Tongai shows us how its done

 

 

 

 

Mr Sydney taking break from carpentry

 

 

All hands on deck

 

 

The crew above are pushing in left over pieces of wood etc in preparation for the caulking

 

 

Building a real log cabin – part 6- stone extension first floor

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Adding an upstairs in a stone semi-circle:

 

Hauling up cement and carrying stones

 

 

Our combination scaffolding

 

 

 

 

Interior scaffolding

 

And inside the topmost level the 2nd floor (or 3rd level)

 

Down a floor

 

View of fledgling golf course and the end of the stone extension

 

Top of the stone build

 

You start to get the picture

 

Semi-circular stone extension

 

The top level