After getting three bids on logs we decided to use a logger named Billy Harris. His price was a bit higher but he is very experienced and has cut logs for log homes before. He was very nice and welcomed us to come out and look at the stand of trees he had planned to cut for us. Other loggers we looked at were used to cutting pulp wood for paper mills and were not used to hauling the 40' logs we would need. Although their prices were lower than Billy's, we decided to pay a little bit more to make sure the job got done right.
The trees he showed us were almost perfect for building a log home. They were very straight with little taper on most of them. There were also some big beefy trees that we will use for our ridge pole (RP) and ridge pole support logs (RPSL).
Billy will start cutting the logs in the second week of January. As soon as we get our logs the work on the cabin will start, and hopefully will not stop until January 2011 when we are planing to be finished with the cabin.
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