Looking back---building materials: the lumbers

(after all these years--yes its still work in progress!!!)

I took a lot of pictures during the development and construction of the abong. My original plan was to chronicle our daily activities. I created the blog but never found the time to do the daily updates.
So several years later, I decided to update the abong blog in a 'slow and retired mode'. As for the blog topic organization, I decided to group them as point of interests.

The building materials: the lumbers

Most visitors at the abong often asked me this ubiquitous question--where did we got these lumbers?. It is common knowledge that these oversized lumbers are not available at any hardware/lumber stores.  Luckily for us, there are still a few very old “aro-o” (local pine tree) left-over around the property. My project manager also happens to know this guy Elorde, a logger from Botolan, an Aeta and also a DENR certified logger. He did all the chopping and cutting of those aro-o trees into logs and ultimately into usable lumbers. Below are some of the pictures of the 'logging' event.

Elorde checking out the downed trees.

These aro-o tree are almost or even over a hundred years old!

The rotten core indicates that this tree has been 'dead' for some time but still yields some good lumbers.

This is one of the main post.

These will turn into lumbers soon.

These guys are almost there!

Elorde suggested to cut these crooked timbers into small pieces for charcoal
but I said no as I have some plan for these.

Here are two of the posts being applied with preservatives.

The rest of the lumbers use are sourced locally. and just like everything else in the Philippines, these are delivered in a tricycle!

...and even sacks of cement! Beat that Home Depot!

Yes those are 10 bags of cement!

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