Up up and away!

The weather has been gorgeous at the lake this week and my meeting with Mike and Art went great. We now have everything resolved, new and final prints drawn up, and the logs are being stacked and drilled into place.

The logs that we're using are 12" logs that have been standing dead in Canada for ten years. This makes their moisture relatively low so that they won't shrink much after they are placed. The logs are a swedish cope style where each log has a channel scooped from the bottom where it lies on the log below. They are then glued between each course. Finally a long drill bit drills a hole for the thru-bolts that hold the logs together. All corners are notched corners.