It finally starts!

After wanting this for so many years, the day finally came! Ric and I took Thursday and Friday (the 17 & 18) off because the first load of logs was due to be delivered. At around 8:00 am on Thursday, Tim and his oldest son Devon came to get set up and wait for the delivery truck.

Unfortunately, we had to wait and wait. We thought the truck would be in the area the night before, but there was a misunderstanding. It didn't leave Sherburne, NY until 5:00 am. So he didn't get to Brownfield until 11:30!

Here it comes, the truck with all of the logs for the walls of our cabin.


I was surprised the logs were covered, after all they are just trees! But they really protect them after they are milled. The semi stopped at the last part of the driveway where he could still turn around, so Tim had to unload there and use his equipment to move the logs the rest of the way to the work site.












The driver and Tim are removing all of the straps before they start unloading the pallets.






Unloading the logs.








Devon climbed onto the stack to make sure Tim didn't jab the forklift blades into the main header beam.




Remember all of that mud from last weekend?

Well a week didn't do much to dry things out. Every time Tim brought another load back to the site, he would make a bigger and bigger mess!

Cannon really liked wading in the mud! What a mess!!She liked the mud, but didn't like getting hosed down before we would let her in the trailer.






The most important part about putting up the walls of a log cabin is making sure the first course is square and level, so Tim and Devon spent a long time dry fitting the first layer of logs.


But it was finally time for the first screw:







You might wonder how all those piles of logs end up as walls, well, each log has a tag on it that tells what kind of log it is and how long it is.
They say things like HH-12'-0" or HH-MO-2'-3" or HH-FO-4'-9". There is also a map of each wall telling what log goes on each course. So, Rick and I sorted the logs so Tim and Devon could
install them. You might think that sounds easy and it was pretty easy finding the logs. But, it never failed, the log we needed was always (ALWAYS) on the bottom of a stack!

After the first course, everything went pretty fast. By the end of the second day (Friday 4-18), Tim and Devon had finished 4 levels.

Rick and I helped any way we could, picking up trash, sorting logs and keeping the work site clean.