Welcome back and Happy New Year! We've been working on Arabella for four years now. We cut the first tree in January of 2016 and it has been a wild ride since then! There have been plenty of challenges along the way. We look forward to solving these challenges every time but it also takes a lot of energy... so this past year we decided to take a little bit more time to ourselves to try to recharge the batteries. Keira and Alix took a trip to Paris to visit Alix's family and Steve took the week to relax in the woods while hunting (nope, didn't get much).
After returning we decided to look a step ahead and harvest some root stock for some grown knees. This would provide the wood we harvest the time to season properly before being installed in Arabella down the road when they are needed.
Knees are supports that connect the frames to the deck beams and have to be very sturdy. They often are made from Hackmatack or Tamarack as these usually grow in bogs and form long buttresses in their root stock. We don't have any of those growing around here so we decided to try to see what we can find out of white oaks growing on the property, which we need to harvest anyways. Quite the adventure... to say the least!
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