Todays Project - What did you do today?

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Another none metal related post.
My sister and her husband have a cottage on a saw mill site they bought from my aunt 30 or 40 years ago. It was her dads sawmill. It hasn't operated in about 50 years, but there has been mills there from the mid 1800s.
Most of the mills around here stored they're logs in the water to keep pine beetles at bay. The bottom of the bay is littered with sunken logs, some BIG some small.
Generally you need a permit and jump through many government hoops to extract these but this time we beat the system.
A small hydro dam was built on river in 1910, it raised the lake level about 10 or 12 feet. The flooded land was never purchased. My sister pays property taxes on land where the logs sit, although its under several feet of water.
You still wouldn't be able to salvage them as they remain the property of the original owner. Now the catch, my aunt held on to the timber stamp when her dad passed away, they're her logs.
According to fish and wildlife its fish habitat if they're below 15 feet, these are at the most in 10 feet of water.
My nephews backed a boat trailer into the lake and winched a couple onto the bunks and brought them down.


Both turned out to be pine, been in the water preserved for 50 to 150 years.