Starting off the morning by squaring the ends of our rough cut sill boards.

Cutting the last board to length before hauling them up to the cap log.

All of the sill boards are laid out.

Now to lag the sill to the cap. We used John's 1/2" impact wrench to drive 5/16" lag bolts into the log.

We pre-drilled through the sill board to help drive the lag bolts, but the impact gun still had to work hard.

We also laid out a zigzag pattern for the bolts, which made the sill boards even more secure.

Paul finishes the last three bolts for this board.

Once the boards were all bolted down on the west wall, we took the circular saw to the outer edge to trim back the wider boards and get a nice flush edge to mount our pitch brackets against.

Paul points out a warp in one of the boards which we might have to plane down.

Trimming another extended outside edge of a sill board.

Moving on to the east wall. This one required more shimming than carving.

Jeff tries out his new planer on some knots.

What a time-saver!

A nice, flat surface for laying a sill board.