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Three large walnut trees at least 80 years old - that's what our friend Karen cut down early in 2009. Karen owns and runs a wonderful dog kennel known as Animal Camp. It's a great place to board dogs. Our guys go crazy everytime we say, "Want to go to Camp," and they have great fun romping with the other dogs. It's hard to find places you completely trust with family, but this is one of them!

Over the years, several walnut trees had grown too large on the Animal Camp grounds and needed to be cut down. Karen knew that I did woodworking, and would put the wood to good use, so we worked out an arrangement for me to help with the dogs, in my retirement, and in trade for the wood.

The trees were cut down in late February. We loaded the logs on our trailer and took them to, "Sawmill Exprees," in Manchester, Michigan, in the same town where we live and only ten minutes from home. They milled all the logs for us and even let Carolyn and I help in the process. It was fun, and they're great people to work with! Thanks to Mike! Unfortunately, I did saw through a couple of nails, which pretty quickly destroyed their blades!

In the photos in this section, you'll note that I used Karen's tractor to lift many of the large logs, at times lifting the rear tires off the ground! Eventually, I broke her tractor a couple of times, smashing a front panel and completely tearing a front tire off the rim (they were heavey logs!). It's an orange tractor, however, so I didn't feel too badly. You'll also note that while I had to lift the large logs with her tractor, Carolyn was able to lift them by hand - just picked them up off the trailer and put them on the pile.

We stacked and sticked - meaning putting cross sticks across the lumber to space them for drying - the wood in the barn. The dogs didn't quite understand this large pile of wood in their home, but they have christened it appropriately. Only once, however, because it's now theirs!

It was a great experience, and especially nice because of being able to work with some great people in Michigan. In the end, and on cleaning up some of the stray logs in the yard, I buried our tractor in the mud. Took a week to get out. And of course, one may need a new planer to finish the raw-cut boards, and that planer may be too heavy to lift off a pick-up truck by hand, requiring a fork lift attachment to a tractor. So goes a typical project!

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