This morning, in a bit of a stiff breezy and chilly wind, we took out our first of the two rafters we completed on Saturday, but before that, I just remembered, we sliced off the bevel angled cut at the top end of the rafter (the end that fits into the metal bracket up on the I-Beam).
We shoved the scaffolding towers around, connected up the hoist and winched the IJ rafter up into the air and got it approximately into position. It looked good so we got the glue out and prepared the IJ corner leg with the glue and did the same up at the metal bracket too. Then we slid the rafter into place and with encouragement from our club hammer, managed to get it to fit nice and tightly!
Rafter-IJ-Installed
We finished the morning off by tidying up all the equipment and wrapping up the winch motor again to protect it against the forecast rain (which duly arrived!).
After lunch, we started preparing the bits and pieces for the O Ridge rafter (this is the bent one with the metal elbow joint in the middle of it). We doubled checked the distances of the NO and OP corners against the I-Beam and the bracket at that end point, which turned out to be also pretty much on the spot too! So with this reassurance, we proceeded to cut and slice the LVL timber (we brought in the correct set of 4 lengths before lunch) putting a 6.5degrees angle on one end of the set of two LVL pieces and then cut the same 6.5 degree angle off the end of the webbing plywood bits too. Plus the usual internal noggins too. Everything was sanded to clean the surfaces and that concluded our day’s work.
Tomorrow, we will first vacuum the prepared bits and then glue and nail the rafter together, and after that, weather permitting, we will put up the other rafter, the LM rafter to get that one out of the workshop! Lovely!