Wood Workers Ahoy!

One of the upsides of the woodworking side of the project is that you get to work in the shade. Today we were met by 7 dozen planks of wood. The hatian carpenter who is working with us culled 2.5 doz for building scaffolding and the remaining 4.5 doz were deemed good enough for building desks and benches. We will see.

The photo shows the work bench we constructed. The idea is to clamp a board with a straight edge on top of the board to be cut then run the skill saw along. I know that looks like James is just sitting around but that was only momentary. James Bruce and Cam were busy busy busy keeping up with clamping process given we had a cutting setup on each side of the bench.

By the end of the day we had trimmed the 4.5 dozen "good" planks each to selected widths.
Photo of the day's finished work.

Tomorrow we try the thickness planer and see how that goes. We are renting a 3200W honda generator and seems to be doing just fine.

That's if for today.

Roger