More on Milling the Lumber

We had to pick up the mill in town and tow it out to the road. (Yup that's one of our trucks. Maybe I should do an entry just on island trucks). When Waylon came to help Jonathan with the motor, he says "Man, did you pull this out here with your truck?" Jonathan says "Yup". Waylon says "huh, well I'll be". Waylon's Mom was not a fan of Waylon Jennings, I asked.

We(Jonathan) backed it down the road to the top of the driveway. I got out of the truck for safety. He lined the mill up with the first log in line and jacked it up about 5 feet on one end so it would be level.
Of course before we could do this, the log boom truck had to come out and prepare the logs for the mill. Danny had to make a roll-away(like a ramp) to load the logs on. He lined up seven Sitka spruce logs.

Joanthan and I managed to roll the first one into place but after that we had to use a peavy and some local teenagers to move the rest into the right position on the mill. I am not sure how many days we were out there making boards, but it was a great way to keep warm. Between yarding the logs onto not so even rollers, fixing the mill deck because we got tired of our feet breaking through, hauling all the boards down to the cabin, shoveling sawdust, burning scraps, etc. we managed to keep pretty warm.