Week 6 -- Trying to move up

As contemplated at the end of last week,  the better part of this week I worked alone while Sebastian helped the sawyer make a lot of lumber and some cabinet wood too from various trees that we have either felled or been given by neighbors to use.  That process is pretty
interesting.  It starts with a log being squared up like this on the machine:


And then boards get cut.    I'm having no luck loading a video of that process,  but ultimately we end up with quite a few piles like this:
It's tremendously satisfying to put to use these trees that we cut to clear.  They were not considered "merchantable" by timber standards here becasue they aer too small,   but there's plenty of wood that we will be able to put to good use when the time comes to build my shop and maybe also a carport that's in the plan.

For my part,  I continued on the floor framing.

Midweek we got delivery of three big tall steel  posts that sit on the basement floor and extend all the way (over 16 feet) to the bottom of the second floor wall.  I was able to use the tractor to get 
the posts tilted into the house hole,  but from there it was a pretty muscular and 
a bit harrowing job.  Fortunately the sawyer -- Clifford - was willing to lend a hand as we neede all three of us to pull it off.  
We managed, and now the building is finally making SOME moves upward.  
  

The weather forcast for the next few days is HOT again... which is better than rain,  but can
be hard on us  here... nevertheless, I have "high" hopes of making a lot of progress on the
floor, so that we can soon get the earth moved back against the building and start moving
the walls up another layer....   WIsh me luck!