Peeling

Over the last month or so we have had 3 peeling parties and a few other random days of peeling here and there.  For the 3 parties we actually paid high school kids $10/hour to peel.  The first time on June 13th we had about 7 kids, but I was trying to do different work which left them unsupervised.  They seemed to work hard, but did not peel as much as I had hoped.  Especially since the weekend before Cody from the log home association came out and the 2 of us peeled almost as much as the 7 boys in less time.  Lesson learned that with high school kids you almost need to work right along side them.

On June 28th I had a father and 2 sons come out that I found off Craig’s list.  The four of us peeled all day in the sun, but got a lot done,  about twice as much as the kids the previous weekend did.

Last weekend on the 3rd I had some of the high school kids back out to finish the peeling.  Felt good to get it done.  Should have kept track of man hours although I might not want to know

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Log Delivery Day

After many months and too many phone calls to count our logs arrived today.  We have about 73 house logs and 12 logs to mill into beams.  Most were cut very recently and hopefully should be easy to peel since they were cut late in the year.  A big thank-you goes to Elmer the logger who cut, sorted and got us all the logs.  It rained all day and was extremely wet even for western WA.  It took 6 loads to get all the logs and that was even with logging truck over legal weight each load by 8,000-10,000 pounds.  The 52′ logs where also over legal length but thankfully the logging site was only about 8 miles away so the self-loader driver didn’t really care.

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