Sam, Nathan, Bonnie, Me, Neal and Kara. Peeling fools!
One thing this project is…is A GROUP EFFORT! Two years ago I did almost all the peeling by hand myself.
Neal, Me, Kara and Sam.
I knew I could not repeat that. So you can imagine my elation when at least six other friends and family showed up on various days to help. Wow…what a relief! There was close to 100 man hours peeling those logs. And boy did they turn out beautiful! Of course Neal, my best man got his ‘licks’ in. And my sister was there on weekends making her presence known. She helped out in lots of ways including
Neal, Nathan, Sam and Me. Done!! 120 logs!
helping add a half loft in our garage. Thanks Sisco! We also had a couple HS young men from Montesano…Sam and Nathan. It was nice having some ‘young guns’ around so we could rely on them later in the day when our strength seemed to fade. Thanks guys! FYI…I flew in to log trees in the middle of April for a reason. There are two ‘windows’ of opportunity to log trees if you are planning to
peel bark. Spring and late summer. The reason being the sap under the bark needs to be ‘running’ up the tree to make the separation of the tree and the
Stan also came out and peeled and helped with the loft in the garage…thanks Stan!
bark easier to separate. If you fall the tree at any other time of year you will have a terrible time trying to remove the bark. Another reason is bugs. You need to peel bark from the trees within a few weeks of falling them or bugs will have taken over and infested your trees making life miserable.
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- Sometimes you get lucky and pull off a large piece of bark.
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- Only a few logs left…feeling great!
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- Bonnie, Kara and Sam working hard.
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- Once a log was peeled we set the cable on the log and pulled it onto the ‘finished’ stack by jeep winch.
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- Rookie Sam was a great worker!
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- Bonnie got in on the fun.
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- Girl power!
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- Nathan came out to peel to improve his bat speed.
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- You can see the garage and cabin foundation in the background.
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- Beautiful when they are peeled.
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- My pretty jeep pulled through once again. The winch worked wonderfully…priceless piece of equipment. FYI…jeeps must be red.
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- Neal likes danger I guess.
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- Our two young men setting ‘chokers’. These logs are super slick when freshly peeled.
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- We ran across two logs that took over 3 man hours to peel.
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- My favorite time…lunch.
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- Kara setting a choker so we can move it onto the stack of finished logs.
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- One log at a time.
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- Grateful for my 9000b winch.
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- Also grateful for my team of crazy peelers!
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- Some of these logs are 50′ long!
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- My lead peeler Neal. When he’s not out pushing for new parks and trails in Mason Co. he is out helping me build this cabin.
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- Stan will do any job you toss at him…thanks Stan!
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- My smile is from all the friends who came out to peel.
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