Hi Tim,
Your idea of processing the logs where they are currently located was my first thought until I realised too late that these have been packed together too closly to allow for easy rotation and set up of same. The larger pieces shown in the
woodland collection stack will go to make cruck blades and so these will need to be rotated and set ready for conversion by hewing, Alaskan sawmill, or scie-sawing.
I think that the answer might well be a combination of moving using a gin pole and local bunking.
There is a cruck framed building only a few hundred yards from the timber collection stack and that building, which probably dates from the mid 1300's, demonstrates the uses of scie-saw conversion of the main cruck blades (see saw pit link below for picture of same).
I have a
Saw Pit in the woodland close by to the collection stack and wondered if we might have a go at experimenting with using this in combination with a saw break to convert the cruck blades. These logs would need to be towed to the pit using the Alpine Tractor or winched using a come-a-long and rollers.
Mike,
The time lapse moved so fast that I fear that I probably missed the really important messages but it demonstrates the efficacy of using this method.
Ken Hume