This was the first slab to come off our log with the largest knot. Looks like it might make a good guitar. |
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Jillena measures down 1/2" to take another slab off. |
The second slab to come off had more of the wood intact around the knot, but still had a hole in it for Jillena to peek through. |
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Jillena was as shocked as the rest of us when the mill owner, Jim, asked her to take the controls for a while. She operated it like a pro. |
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Jillena at the controls of the sawmill.
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Later at the house, we put the third level on the scaffold towers without the picks, and got ready to start stapling the second half of the plastic. |
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A view from the second level. Our working height is about the same as the top wall log. |
To start this second row of plastic, we first kept it folded and laid it across all of the third level frames. |
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Next, we started at one end by unfolded it a little and squaring it with the gable wall, then stapling up the gable edge. |
We then worked our way along the ceiling, tucking the upper plastic under the excess from the lower plastic. |
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A bucket did just fine for Jeff to gain a little height, but Bob had to improvise. |
6-mil. plastic does funny things to hair. |
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We've got the plastic started and stapled about three feet up, and the seam taped from end to end. |