Last night, before we moved all those rafters (and smashed fingers....) Jeffrey had spent the afternoon devising a way to hoist the GLU-lam ridge beam into place. Pretty much it consisted of man handling the beast up to the loft, then again up on some staging, but how to get it 8 more feet into the air was perplexing. That's when he devised this. Basically it's a 2x8 support framed and braced to the end wall that was raised with a series of cables and pulleys pulled by the tractor. Once they hoisted the beam in place, the support board was then fastened to the wall along with many other support pieces and they started to put the rafters on. I just wanted to say Kudos to Jeffrey for getting this done without anyone making a trip to the E.R. :)
So - Lunchtime Progress: One happy husband! He had just finished handing Jeff and Ken the last rafter for the back side of the house and he was ready for lunch, lol. The plan was to finish all the rafters on the beam, and then set up some minor jobs for us to finish this weekend! Hopefully the weather won't be a complete washout and we'll get to do a little work :)
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