Day 1 is delivery, and day 2 is training. Lok-N-Log's Barry Campbell came up from Sherburne and patiently explained how to put the kit together. Here are some clips for the record.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Logs arrive
Lok N Logs dropped off 2 tractor trailers full of logs at the snow plow turnaround on Thursday the 10th. From that point, the dirt road is so narrow and twisty that you need a smaller truck. First truck was a commercial carrier and showed up at 9:30A, although I had been promised an 8A delivery time over and over. Right. Or maybe 9:30??
We used a JCB rough terrain forklift to unload the trucks and load up 3 trailers. At the site, a Lull (similar to the JCB) unloaded the trailers and carried pallets up the driveway. Once there, they got unloaded and the first 20 courses (rows from the bottom) got sorted. Each log is numbered and labeled, so easy to tell exactly where it goes in the wall.
Logs have a tongue on top and a groove on the bottom so they interlock. The tongue gets a foam gasket, and caulk at the edge, and then 9" log hog screws hold the logs in place. Seems very solid and very tight. Caulk oozes out here and there, and some cleanup is needed. Barry Campbell of LokNLogs came out Friday and led a training session. Tim Lee, Nick, Luke Waite and I got about 4 courses down. On Friday night, cousins Marty, Joe and Anne came up with a friend, Tess. Saturday was a bit rainy, but Marty and Joe made window and door frames and then we set them in place. The walls at the porch door were way out of level vertically, so we used a come-along and some braces to fix that. PJ and son Riley joined us on Sunday and we leveled the rest and set the frames in place along with a couple more courses.
M/T/W it was off to the races laying logs with all the braced frames keeping them honest. We lowered two small windows a few courses, as they were ridiculously high in the air. The designer lined up the heads with big windows which made no sense, and I did not catch the error till Monday. Tim and Nick figured out how to swap some rows so it still worked out.
We used a JCB rough terrain forklift to unload the trucks and load up 3 trailers. At the site, a Lull (similar to the JCB) unloaded the trailers and carried pallets up the driveway. Once there, they got unloaded and the first 20 courses (rows from the bottom) got sorted. Each log is numbered and labeled, so easy to tell exactly where it goes in the wall.
Logs have a tongue on top and a groove on the bottom so they interlock. The tongue gets a foam gasket, and caulk at the edge, and then 9" log hog screws hold the logs in place. Seems very solid and very tight. Caulk oozes out here and there, and some cleanup is needed. Barry Campbell of LokNLogs came out Friday and led a training session. Tim Lee, Nick, Luke Waite and I got about 4 courses down. On Friday night, cousins Marty, Joe and Anne came up with a friend, Tess. Saturday was a bit rainy, but Marty and Joe made window and door frames and then we set them in place. The walls at the porch door were way out of level vertically, so we used a come-along and some braces to fix that. PJ and son Riley joined us on Sunday and we leveled the rest and set the frames in place along with a couple more courses.
M/T/W it was off to the races laying logs with all the braced frames keeping them honest. We lowered two small windows a few courses, as they were ridiculously high in the air. The designer lined up the heads with big windows which made no sense, and I did not catch the error till Monday. Tim and Nick figured out how to swap some rows so it still worked out.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Logs into boards
The logs we cut and trimmed are scheduled to be piled into Bill Lee's trailer tomorrow by Tim Buckingham. From there, they head to Bill O'Brien's sawmill near Port Leyden to be cut into 1" rough sawn boards, which need to be stacked back here on site and covered with a tarp so they dry out slowly over the next year. Tim B is on site this week ripping out stumps and digging out dirt at foundation and a few other heavy duty tasks that require a skid steer.
Not sure what the boards are for, but maybe a pump house, or a shed, or a little camp, or a platform, or fencing, or closing in the crawl space, or steps to the lake. They need to be primed and stained to last outside of course, or sanded to be useful as shelving or paneling inside.
Not sure what the boards are for, but maybe a pump house, or a shed, or a little camp, or a platform, or fencing, or closing in the crawl space, or steps to the lake. They need to be primed and stained to last outside of course, or sanded to be useful as shelving or paneling inside.
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