Jeff high up on the wall, working on a lateral corner pin.

Each of these lateral corner pins has averaged 20" in length. Driving these in horizontally one-handed is Jeff's "favorite" job.

While Jeff was finishing up the pinning, Bob was trimming the first of our "cap logs," or the logs for the top row that will "cap" the walls. We've reserved 4 larger logs for the top course just to have more mass for attaching our I-joist rafters.

Bob begins to lift with the Ford.

Just a few feet off the ground and the log is starting to bump the overdangles.

After moving the bottom end over a little to square it up with the wall, lifting commenced and in a few minutes we had the first end up and resting on the top overdangle.

Bob heads up to unhook the pulley...

...and send it down to Jeff to connect to the bottom end.

Both pulleys now reconnected and ready to lift.

Jeff runs the White which lifts the far pulley to stabalize the top of the log while Bob does the heavy lifting from the Ford.

It looks so easy.

Jeff has lowered his end down.

Now to swing the log north to get it into its final position.

This is one of the two logs that will support the roof, which will overhang the house on the north and south (left and right) ends. So this west log, along with the east log, will overhang the house about 4 feet on each end.