Darryl's log home

 Darryl made peelers for taking off the bark. We learned a few tricks  by trial and error... like peeling the log immediately otherwise it became a HUGE mission!  Once the logs were peeled,we sprayed them with a Boron, boric acid and glycol mixture that we cooked up. This is an anti-bug and fire retardant.  Painting the ends with old engine oil to keep the insects from getting in. Freshly peeled logs before they were treated and tagged. Once the logs were treated with the Boron mix, we  tagged them, logging their circumference measurements at both ends as well as their length and a detailed description of each log to assist us later in deciding which log would fit where in the structure of the house.

                                            Darryl rigged up a winch on the backi ....                                             Each log weighs more or less a ton... Checking to see what part of the tree was usable then measuring out the lengths was my job! Darryl made log rollers to get the logs moved onto the sacrificial poles. Rolling the log onto sacrificial logs to keep it off the ground.