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Wood paneling the ceiling

It's a cabin; it should have lots of wood. So the great room ceiling is paneled in tongue-and-groove. We're using a prefinished product, which is great because applying finishes is really boring.

Here are the first few courses getting started.

My helper is Jeff from Selah. He knows his stuff; I'm really glad to have him on around to teach me about finish work. I'm hoping he'll want to come out some more.


 

Our first task on Monday was to make a safe way to operate at ceiling height. We built platforms on the oft-abused collar ties, and then used ladders on those for the very highest bits.


After Jeff went home, I used a chainsaw to cut up a couple logs I'd left in the driveway.

 

 

On Tuesday we got quite a bit farther down the ceiling.



After Jeff went home, I tried splitting some of the wood. I succeeded, but it was the wood handle of my axe that split. Guess I can burn it now.

 

On Wednesday we got down to the collar ties.

That's Jeff marking the ceiling to plan a piece that has to fit into this tight space.


That's Jon at the top of the stairwell space using a paintbrush-on-a-stick to touch up the paint where the nail gun scuffed it.

It's looking really amazing. Tomorrow we plan on carefully scribing the wood in around the collar ties.

 
 
 
 
 
 


After Jeff left, I went after splitting those logs again, this time with a sledge and wedge. It was raining. I tried to capture logs flying apart by taking a video. It turned out to be harder than I thought. I could catch the impact with the wedge, but the next frames would be blurred as the energy shook the ground all the way to the camera. That was kind of cool! Here are a few fun mostly-clear frames with wedge and wood flying around.

In 25 minutes I chopped maybe four rounds apart; maybe one or two winter nights? Collecting energy by hand is terribly inconvenient.


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