I am still building a stockpile of jarrah studs that I can show to Tony and have him sort them in to usable and noggings material.

During the week I worked through the next layer in the raw wood pile.

These were all covered in termite "mud" and surface nibbling.

To avoid blunting the planer blades I need to remove all traces of this.

I used a rotary wire brush on an angle grinder, a hand brush and a small brush to clean these up and built up an input pile to be used on Saturday.

Once again I made a slow start working at home.

Rain was threatening so my first task was to head down to Bunnings to buy a tarpaulin.

I set this up so that it was in position, ready to be pulled over the planer/thicknesser and the dust extractor in seconds if any rain started.

I used it several times during the day. Just as the day was ending, light rain set in and I was not even able to move all the machinery in to storage.

When Linda arrived home I needed her help. We had to head up to the workshop in the dark and Linda held the tarpaulin up over our heads as I retrieved the various bits of equipment and pulled them inside.

By the end of Saturday I had used the jointer to produce two square sides on the every piece in the "input" pile.

I had just started to thickness the third face when the rain started at the end of the day.

By Sunday morning the rain had almost stopped and I was able to finish the third face on all pieces and the fourth face on all but four of the pieces.

I needed to pack up at this point as we had arranged to meet some visitors from Canberra for lunch.

Hopefully during my odd moments this week I can finish off the four remaining pieces.

I then wish to trim one end of all long pieces done to date and mark up the cut position for the other end.

I am meeting the structural engineer on Wednesday out on site so I will take these pieces with me and get his opinion on which are usable and which should be used for noggings.

I am also hoping to work through the next layer in the rough timber pile and clean up each piece ready for milling.