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
More pictures of the team in action on last winters log cabin building project… Ah winter – full of dry, warm(ish), sunny days….
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!
There is always something new to build…and we have lots of pine poles to use up. The school children counted 470 of them.
De-barking pine poles
Cutting off the branches
Resting the initial logs on our new stone pillars
Dr Udhogo treating poles
Eddie
Didi
Thinking time
Hmmm – we have to get this right from the start!
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