Lumbering Down the River

As the saying goes, “The grass is greener on the other side of the fence,”  here, “Teak logs are cheaper and more available to get on the other side of the Moei River (the border)” as it is illegal to cut down teak trees in Thailand, even if it is on your own property!  Anyway, we use teak for building because it is very much like cedar in that it doesn’t rot very fast, has straight grain and is hardy. So here are some pictures so you all can see how the logs were delivered to us from Burma.

We are getting ready to go upstream to meet our 5 rafts of teak wood.

On our way upstream.

Here is the first of 5 rafts. They each have at least 8-10 logs tied onto 3 bamboo pontoons.

Don't they look happy and are having fun too? What a way to work.

Here are the other 3 rafts floating down the river.

Finally we arrive at the school property. Here they untied the logs from the bamboo pontoons. And carried onto land.