Matt climbing down off the wall after securing the pulley block to the end of the cap log.

Jeff trims the small panel that will go in the southwest corner of the floor where the lifting pole was. Is that a little loud for ya, Paul?

Matt begins work on the northwest lifting pole by cutting a notch at about girder height.

The notch is cut. Now to cut in from the back side.

Matt taking down lifting pole.
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Disconnecting the upper pulley block.

Back on the floor, Paul lays adhesive for the southwest corner panel.

With the wall edge scribed to fit, the panel fell into place, but the fitting the groove over the tongue in the panel at Jeff's feet was difficult...

...so Paul uses the crowbar against the wall to push the panels together.

Now to screw the panel down and we're finished in this corner!

Back to the lifting pole. We rigged up a couple of single pulleys on the wall to help lower the sections.

Cutting the last section before working on the remaining base pole.

Sectioning the lifting pole.
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Lowering the log sections to the basement required another hand, and Jillena was there to help.

With a pulley handling the weight of the log, we just lowered it through the floor...

...where Jillena could grab the bottom end...

...and drag it back while the top got lowered to the ground.

Next, we hooked block & tackle to the top of the remaining pole. Down in the basement, Matt makes one last cut.

With Jeff lifting from up top, and the others from below...

...they were able to manage the heavy log without much trouble.

Now that the last lifting pole is out of the floor, we can lay the last of the sub-floor panels. Here, Jillena screws down the last panel in this row.

Jeff and Paul lay the last sub-floor panel.

One of the joists under his panel had warped so much from the weather that we had to shim the top to prevent the panel from bouncing.

Nathaniel watches Jeff work the crowbar along the groove of the adjacent panel to get the two panels to interlock.

Lastly, using the crowbar to shove the panel tight against the adjacent row.

All finished!