Porch work

All the logs are uncovered and sorted out. These are the logs we're using for the porch posts. They all had to be squared off (as much as a log can be squared off), cut and sanded smooth on the bottom. The bottoms of each log got treated with copper green and got a piece of pressure treated wood screwed on. Each piece of pressure treated was cut with the jigsaw to fit the bottom of the log.

The pressure treated fit pretty well by the time we were done.

While the Gradall is great for moving logs around, sometimes they just need to be man-handled. Each log had a hole drilled in the bottom of it to set down on the piece of rebar sticking up out of the concrete posts.



The logs all stood up pretty quickly. I think we had them all standing after just a couple of days after work.

Next up: headers and rafters!