Deliverance

The trip to the stockyard was something of an ordeal. We had torrential rain yesterday and that had softened up the ground, so despite my walking the course the truck got bogged down. We spent about an hour in the blazing sun trying to back out or go forwards, but lunch time found us only about six feet away from our original position. When we arrived a group of workmen were delivering equipment to cut down some trees down by the slipway from the dam. Seeing us stuck in the mud when they came up for lunch they offered to pull us out and we happily took them up on the offer. I in turn offered them a little tea money for their trouble, but they claimed it was all in the course of a day's work and were happy to help out fellow mountain folk.
We then went for lunch ourselves and came back with renewed vigor. The road way was about ten meters down a slope from the stack of logs, so I manhandled the logs over to the slope and we used the crane to lift them into the truck from there. The delivery at home was simple enough lowering each onto the temporary rack. There is one extra log stood up against the back wall, but these are the fruits of our labor the longer ones are just over 3 meters, so they should be fine for my pillars and whatnot once they have been stripped of their bark and trimmed up a bit for jointing. The one in front is on its way. The temporary rack is doing OK, but it could do with a few more diagonal braces next time the rain stops.