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oK we've got a wall loves up here the
right and the left we're looking at a
wall round fold on the right the right
piece before AR and I'm not sure you can
see it but a snap to another white
center line on that the rain had rushed
the other one off there are still had no
penciled in lines there and there is for
Al on the other side of the ladder when
you're working two pieces like this we
were coming up against an opening like
that right there for the doorway will be
I I like to line this point at the very
end have it perfectly in line with that
the end of the shorter piece before al
log and I'm going to put a string up
there and the mark the center mark
that's on the ends of the Laois I would
be able to bring them up to the string
and that let me know that that log there
for Al even though it's a short note
will be perfectly in line with for AR
and what I did right there behind the
center line or behind sorry behind the
shoulder patrol line I put a three penny
nail in there and I'm going to tie
string to it and that way I can tell
what I've got at the opening all right
I've had to raise this log just a little
bit and some blocking underneath it I've
got sitter's three-quarter inch piece of
plywood half inch piece some pieces of
linoleum you can actually use linoleum
for blocking just its stand and you can
use well I've got some pieces of Formica
here that I've used and it was leftover
and it's it's not very thick but
sometimes you just need a really really
thin piece to get you where you need to
be but it's got I've got my string right
on the center line if you can see that
that's the center line and the strap got
it right up
on that and also when al I had a string
on here and I've had to raise this just
a little bit with my strings on that
really good so I'm ready to at this
point I can take the string back down
and we're going to the next step of what
I like to do and one of the things just
it would be necessary when you're when I
call fitting the logs on the wall and
they get string out of the way and we'll
get onto the next step of this alright
the next thing that I want to do is to
check this log and see if it is plumb I
just lay my level up there and I know
you can't see the bubbles but this log
is just pretty close to being plumb now
I'm using this is a two foot level
sometimes you need to lean the log out
just a little bit we're leaning in I
used the term rocking it out or rocking
it in and I was going to show you just a
little block of wood it's the same block
of wood that I used when I built our
house 26 I think is about 26 years ago
and I can tell exactly how much I need
to lean it or to shave off from the
outside or the inside of the the lower
part of the notch here I can lay this up
there and this little block is six
inches long and that's how thick these
logs are so I can lay a two foot level
up against that block and I can check it
and if it needs to lean out or rock out
I can just get my level on plumb and I
can site either down here at the bottom
of the block or at the top of it and I
can see exactly how much of wood that I
need to remove either on the outside of
the notch are on the inside and if you
keep your your logs individually plumbed
it'll make it so much easier when you
set the other log over the top of that
if your layout and everything is
accurate and when you got your control
area on either in or both ends plane
tour when you put your level on there
when the log is laying flat on your
sawhorses then when you set it on the
wall
and you lay your level up there you want
the level to be reading plumb know if
you can see I've got a Threepenny
finished now driven right into the
center of the center line and I've just
got a string and I've got it hooked on a
nail on the other end and one for Al I'm
just going to take my string just pull a
loop in it like that let's make three
four loops like that or five or however
many you want to and then you can pull
with your other hand and keep a little
snug pressure on that string then just
bring this back I'll just let it wad up
and it'll lock that down okay I'll put
this string back up and I've got both
ends I've got an inch dowel rod I made
sure I've got three of these it's just a
round piece of dowel rod and I've got
one here underneath the string and at
the other end and I can now at this
point I can check to make sure that this
end of the log is in and out the way
it's supposed to be I could just take my
little piece of dowel rod and I can
slide it up against the log and behind
the string and I could do it here on the
the other end of the log at the door
opening and that lets me know that this
point right here and also this point
right here is in line from here all the
way through so that would be just like
in heaven like having one log that was
not cut out but just one solid piece all
the way through and you have your faces
all in line with each other when I start
to make the shoulder passes here to
bring this log back into control or
where it is this log being plumb will be
in line with a string that I have on the
floor I'll leave this string of these
dowels here when I make these hand saw
passes on this shoulder to bring this
this log in to where it is in line with
the C log and as you're doing that you
can put your little dowel behind the
string and you can always know
that this is lined up all the way
through
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okay I'm ready on a wall to bring it in
to control with the seal all lined up
with the inside face of the seal or I'm
just checking again make sure that the
individual log is plumb I did this on
for a R which is this longer time by for
this piece here and I did it over the
the for Al also I'm going to take my
four foot level and put it on a string
that I have on the floor and I couldn't
get the level plumb reading plumb and I
can tell how much I need to bring this
log in to have it on control I have a
string on the floor it goes all the way
around on the inside of the building and
what I did I came in three inches from
the inside face of the seal all and B
and D were logs
and I just drove some nails in the
plywood and I made sure that my strings
were parallel with each other and also
that they were the whole thing was
square I pulled a tape inside diagonals
on the building on my string lines and
that way I can always refer back to
those strings and make sure when I'm
plumbing down with a level or like using
the plumb bob which is what I'll have to
do from Round five on up because I don't
have a level that's real real long I'll
be using a plumb bob and dropping a
plumb bob back to that string on the
inside corners of every round and that
way I'll know that I'm keeping the walls
plumb and square
I'll be making a handsaw passed on the
shoulder here and here on the inside of
the building and on the outside and I'll
be able to bring this log here in and
I'll be going back to my control string
that I just showed you
I'm just holding the level here getting
it right on that string just take them a
tape
and hold my level plum I need to come in
about a sixteenth of an inch which is
about the thickness at this song and
I'll show it to you is uh it's a folding
saw it has the japanese-style teeth it's
really a sweet saw the blade the teeth
are really uniform all the way down
there's you don't have one tooth that's
been out more than others they're very
very well made and they're very sharp
when you get them and the blade is very
flexible so I can lay this in here and
actually be in that blade like this and
make a salt pass and the blade always
comes back to straight it's very well
made so and I could make these soft
passes here and here but what I'm going
to do just for right now I want to take
this dowel out of there and stick it my
pocket because it kind of gets in the
way when I'm making these these passes
these salt passes here I only need to
come in a sixteenth of an inch which is
what this will actually cut sweet little
salt and I'm just putting it up here and
I'm holding it tight flat against the
log there and I'm flexing the blade just
a little and I'm cutting on the push
stroke although these teeth are designed
to cut on the pull through when you get
a new sword or sharpen up they cut
really well and really clean on the push
stroke now you don't want to cut too
high when you do your layout if you make
your mark for the lower part of the
notch and put it on the log here that's
where I can tell that I need to stop
when I get to that mark it's kind of you
can't sit very well but it's the mark on
the B wall and I know to stop there and
then down here on the bottom I've still
got my mark just a little bit past the
centerline
on the shoulder so I'll know to stop
there and I'm just flexing the salt put
it flat against the log very gently keep
them fingers out of the way that's all
pass now I'm nail it to where I need to
stop for the bottom the cut is right
there
now I can go on the outside and make
that same cut on this shoulder on the
eye at the outside of the building and
this log here will be ready to bring in
to control now I can make the inside
salt pass on for Al now I can go outside
make these same passes on the outside
I'm ready now to tap this log in I've
got a block of wood that elect you put
up against it a little small for pound
sledgehammer and I can just lean over
here and put it on the outside of the
log just a little slight tap and you can
you can bring it in I'm gonna take a
little block a little sledgehammer
then we lay it around here now bring
that one in now I'm ready to take my
little dowel and put it here at the
string just a light tap I've got that
rag lined up so at this point this point
and at the other end it's lined up and I
can come right here and do the same
thing
slide like tap down here at the bottom
just bring it right in to where my my
dowel just touches the string
so now I've got this log fit this point
here and this point here lines up with
the inside corners on both ends
[Laughter]