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I have started writing a narrative to add to this website.
I hope to tell the whole story of why we picked Rocky Mountain Log Homes as the provider of our logs; why we worked for a
year with Kurt Haglund of RMLH and Altasson, Inc. to design our home and make this dream possible; and how we went through
each step of the process, revealing the good stuff and the bad stuff. The construction process is beginning to move
very quickly now (August 2005) and I am having trouble finding the time to edit and upload the pictures, so the narrative
and picture captions will be added later.
Finally (October 2005), I have the first part of the narrative
written. If you want to read the details about our house construction, go to the Narrative--Storm Castle Ridge log home--I'll add more to the story soon.
The first log truck arrived and, Dave (the driver) navigated the
back country roads with no problems to reach our staging area at Billy Hart's home (Hart Excavation). Thanks Billy!
After offloading at the staging area, the logs were moved by a smaller truck and trailer up
to our house site about 3/4 of a mile away. Kurt Haglund had told us it was common practice to offload logs away from
the actual house site since most log homes were built in remote locations or in places where the road becomes too narrow or
winding. We were lucky we had fairly good access almost the whole way to the site.
All went smoothly until the second truck of logs arrived.
The driver, he-who-shall-not-be-named, was over 2 hours late. His truck was the wrong size--way too big for the offloading
area. He tried driving in the road and scraped the metal railing on a curve. Then he backed his 53 foot
rig out of the country road onto a fairly busy 2 lane highway. His company had not followed Kurt's precise instructions
to send the logs via a 48 foot truck. We went to the alternate plan--unloading the oversized rig at a local lumber yard
(several miles further from the house site). Then the crew loaded the log pallets on the smaller truck and transported
to the house site.
Thank you, Tim of Mountaineer Lumber!
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