| Cutting another kerf in the end of a beam. |  | It took a few slightly undersized logs to get more beams, which meant having to leave some of the crown.  | 
          
            | Bob marks the longest usable part of this beam. The rest is too rotten.  |  | Here's the pile of beams we couldn't get any useful material out of. Once we got into these logs, there was too much rot.  |