Milling has been tough. It was always something Steve wasn’t looking forward to, but it had/has to be done. After 8 weeks of milling and many, many disappointments (chainsaws breaking, difficulties with repairs, trees falling wrong and rotten trees to name a few), Steve’s fed up with milling and needs Read more…
A short video showing off the great work NTM PNG’s helicopter is doing.
So fun story (unfortunately I don’t have photos of this fun story, but luckily for you I have a drawing app on my phone)! A few weeks back, on the second mill trip, Steve had been cutting a tree down for us to turn into glorious lumber. Unfortunately, instead of Read more…
A short video showing off the work of NTM PNG’s tech services department.
Well here I am again, out in the jungle hacking at trees with a chainsaw again. This is now my 7th week of full time logging and it’s still tough, unending work. Our house is up, but our co-workers house is yet to do so we’re back to cutting big Read more…
So we decide to go wandering about through the woods turning trees into lumber and what do you know, we’re on our third milling trip! As you may recall from the last post, we needed to get some bars for the chainsaws from town, and we kind of succeeded. We Read more…
Our news this month – we’re home owners!!
„Where did I land here“, I asked myself first. Maybe 200 hands shook mine. We felt welcomed. And we felt like pop stars. Every child, even the smallest hand, wanted to be shaken.
Life is cozy now in Kovol! We can power our devices, shut out the wind at night, sleep without mice running about our faces, the list goes on! We fly out tomorrow so this weekend we’ve been prepping the houses for our absence. We’ve finished up wrapping them… Put in Read more…
Did I ever tell you that Philip brought a bunch of Germans (well, four of them) over to help build the houses? Well he did, and that’s cool! Not only do Germans help build houses, they also say silly things. Like the time I told a German “let’s go prep Read more…