After visiting the log company months ago, we'd unfortunately had to put off delivery a little longer than we'd liked. Finally, we had the foundation completed and could give them the go ahead to deliver. There were to be two deliveries spaced out a few weeks to give us time to use the first ones.
So, Tuesday morning July 15th, the log truck had arrived from Redding, CA. The truck had actually arrived late the night before and the driver was planning to sleep in the truck to be ready for unloading first thing in the morning.
We all woke up early, packed coffee and went over there to see the logs unloaded, a very exciting day.
The driver was still sleeping when we arrived, but quickly awoke and came over to discuss the game plan. He told us it took 20 minutes just to get around the corner to get on our street the night before. He seemed a bit concerned about the tight parameters for the unloading at first, but after some discussion, he said "OK" with confidence.
He climbed high into his self loader seat and started grabbing logs. He'd been concerned about a tree next door that he'd have to get around and once he started, I could see why. But, he manuvered around it and had no trouble stacking the logs where we discussed.
He'd place it down and then reposition to slid it up the hill. They would plow the dirt a bit as they were pused up, but then he'd put it down and it would come up again out of the dirt.
Once on a roll, he could unload and drop a log in a minute and a half. So after about 45 minutes, we had 29 logs on the property. There would be just enough room along side for Jeff to drive the truck up and down as well. Good news.
So, now to figure out how to drag them up to the house site...
To be continued...
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