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On Thursday, May 1st, Grade 7 students from Charles Bloom school toured the facilities of Log & Timber Works (www.logandtimberworks.com), a local log and timber home construction company, as part of their Trades Exploration Day to encourage youth and parents to consider trades as viable career choices.

Business owners, Pete and Ellen Doucette, were pleased to be able to participate in this very worthwhile occasion. Pete ( a B.C. Certified Log Builder and Master Timber Framer), Dana Seabrook and Clint Dyck acted as tour guides for the group of students who, during their visit, viewed a 6,000 square foot log lodge destined for Lithuania, currently under construction, and walked through the reassembled shell of a completed log home. Students also had the opportunity to try their hand at scribing a log, examine hand-cut timber joinery (an integral part of the timber framing trade), and peruse through a set of architectural blueprints. Other area businesses took part in the Trades Exploration Day as well, providing students with a broad view of the career choices available to them.

    Log & Timber Works operates from their facilities located at 1837 Shuswap Ave. in Lumby, BC.
 

It is like building one giant jigsaw puzzle.

Over the last couple of months, Log & Timber Works in Lumby have built a 6,000-square-foot second floor of what will be a log lodge.

On Monday morning they dismantled it into pieces so that they can ship it to its new home in Lithuania on July 2.

"Everything comes apart, all the logs," said Pete Doucette, co-principal of Log & Timber Works.

"Then it is like a giant meccano kit. It will be like a sequence with all the numbers and tags."

Log and Timber Works were hired by Coyote Log Homes, based out of Ontario, to dry the wood used in the project, and later to build the

second floor of the lodge. The wood has to be kiln-dried when it is going to Europe due to safety regulations in Europe.

They are working out of Pristine Log and Timber Ltd. that have the kilns and a large covered work area that made the log lodge happen. The home used seven huge loads of wood.

The bottom of the lodge was built in Abbotsford, and the roof will be built when it arrives and is assembled in Lithuania. The lodge is being built in a European method out of Douglas fir from the Interior.

This is the first time the company has built a log building of this magnitude.