Sept 24th - Sort of Lumber

With yet another beautiful day, I spend the entire day at the lumber yard, sorting and restacking the lumber. We will need the 1” thick oak barn boards for decking the roof within a couple of weeks. There are 4 large stacks and since they have been wet a time or two, I cut the steel bands and start restacking the lumber using sticker material. Stickers space the lumber apart allow the boards to dry out and keep air flowing in and around the lumber. It also stabalizes the stacks from falling over. I take out any moldy lumber as well as any of the lumber infested with powder post beetles.

I use Joe’s old trailer frame to spread the material out ready for spraying. I’ve sorted and stacked nearly 12 bunks of lumber at the end of the day. Once again the material handler has been great for moving and sorting the stacks.

Hagen has returned this morning to stack concrete block on the 2^nd floor for continuing the chimney on up and beyond the roof. He has also added the first chimney tile, hopefully within a week or 2 we can have a fire!