Yesterday grandsons and I pulled this larger trunk out of the bush and cut it to length to make the seat boards. The challenge for today is to try to split this log in half and then use the flat side up to make the seat. If I had a saw mill this would be easy enough but all I have is a table saw and it only cuts 7.5 cm deep.

The log is not perfectly straight, nor perfectly round and is tapered, so there is no way that you can just throw it onto a tablesaw to cut it down the middle.

To find the plane of the curve of the log I laid the log on the floor and let it roll until it settled. This way I found a rough determination of the plane. I then pencilled a line on each end of the log parallel to the floor. I had to make sure the knots were smoothed right down to let it roll freely.