Andrew went over to our land day before yesterday to begin the official log peeling marathon required for our new 38 (soon to be more) logs for our log home roof rafters. He had gotten 7 done a week ago and managed to complete 24 the first day. He spent a luxurious evening eating jambalaya over a cook stove and then sleeping on the floor of the shed over there. He got up at 5 am. and managed to complete the log peeling marathon by 7 p.m.--just in time for our lasagna and watermelon picnic over at our friend's house--who happen to own 40 acres on the other side of our lake.
He uses this bark spud to get underneath the bark. While the tree is freshly cut and the sap is still up in the bark, it all comes off pretty easily. The logs up on the top of the pile were beginning to get tougher from being in the sun, but the ones at the bottom had bark that still slipped off no problem...well, sort of no problem...OK, it was alot of work!
Once the sap begins to flow out of the bark, things get much tougher to get off. Also pine bark beetles begin to burrow into the wood underneath the bark and make holes in the log--not a good thing cosmetically speaking. They will eventually cause the bark to crumble off in time, but it's a matter of dealing with little holes in your logs or not. This isn't so much of an issue with the walls, but we didn't want to take any chances with our roof rafters. So now log peeling is complete--check! And Andrew has had the most aerobic upper-body workout he's had in quite awhile!
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