This one's for Billy

The logging has begun. Waverly and I, with our friends Deirdre and Elliot, went out and watched Terry Williams, our logger, at work. It was awesome. One of those times I am glad to have a small child to give me an excuse to watch mighty machines at work!

Here are some photos of the skidder from Sunday, when Terry wasn't working. This end of the skidder he used to push the logs around. We watched him use it to move around and build up the piles of logs.

This end of the skidder he used to pull logs.

We watched Terry pull logs out of the forest down to the landing, where he was stacking logs to get them ready to be trucked out.

We also saw him pull a log down out in the forest. I think it must have been cut through at the base, but still propped up by the other trees around it, and we saw Terry pull it down from the bottom with the skidder.

Here Terry is cutting the logs to length on the landing. He cut through them like they were butter.

Walking through the woods, you can definitely tell they are being logged, but they are still beautiful.