Picking Trees

Yesterday was the day for picking out trees. Michelle's strawbale/cob studio has a timber frame, so we had to go pick out the trees to be used. Phil already had access to three locust logs that would work as posts on the exterior of the building, so we needed nine more posts for the interior of the building. The posts are going to keep their natural round shape (as opposed to being milled.) We also needed several pieces of 8 foot long curved wood for some interior support/aesthetics in the loft.

We went to visit Tim, our tree-cutter who has a very nice wooded piece of property (and cherry trees and a horse and two very big dogs.) He said that he could probably harvest enough pine for the interior posts. We walked into the woods to get a better look at his trees. The path was incredibly slick from the night before's rain and was fairly steep.

Phil and Jessa (and a big dog)

Michelle and her two boys.

The hike back down. Slippery!

Measuring a curved log for the loft.

After leaving Tim's, we stopped by a place nearby where Michelle was getting some windows from. The truck wasn't big enough to carry the windows, so we decided to come back with the trailer.

Phil, Jessa and I went to look at another patch of bamboo that we might be cutting from for John's house. We will be cutting today.