Well, the “milling” part of our milling trip is now officially over as our second large chainsaw is now refusing to work. It started yesterday when my only reward for laboring constantly at the pull cord was a resounding backfire, which at least was entertaining for the spectators involved. All Read more…
Today feels like a total, complete failure. We spent all day yesterday preparing a big tree. We get excited about big trees because they give a lot of wood. We felled it, cut it into sections, manhandled the sections into good positions, cut the scabs off so we had square Read more…
Run with endurance. Not really a new idea, not really very insightful, and it could have been said by anyone. The thing that has grabbed me though is ‘the race that is set before us’. It hit me, this is the path God himself has specifically set for me. It’s no accident I’m here facing these challenges
I nearly died today, or at least mangled a limb, but I didn’t get a single scratch, which is pretty neat! So you recall that gravy train tree I was talking about in our last post? Well the bottom of it (which is lying on the top of the hill) Read more…
Today we got to mill the gravy train tree! A massive behemoth, too wide for us to cut normally, so we had to get creative. So this tree is way too big to just cut up into logs, plus it’s situated on a spur of the mountain with dropoffs on Read more…
Today was fun! I had no idea it would be fun, but the fun came anyway! Normally, the people like to rest on Sunday, fine by me. But today when I woke up I was surprised to see the place was packed. Folks from every village were here, and not Read more…
We’ve managed to cut around 50 joists so far and have been turning the bits not deep enough to be a joist into wood for our staircases. We’ve settled into our rythem, we’re making progress and then morning rain.
Well, we’re off again into the wild blue yonder and looking forward to what this next trip has for us. Today has been a little quiet as the rain rolled in early in the afternoon and we’ve retreated to our tent house. Still though, we were able to get our Read more…
Two weeks of full time chainsaw work!
I was dreading the milling trips. I’ve got a set of skills and strengths, but house building and chainsaw skills aren’t anywhere near them! Every time I saw a video of a missionary team building a house I inwardly despaired of how hard it was going to be.