This morning, we finished off preparing all the bits and pieces for making our next batch of rafters. We brought in 48 strips of the plywood webbing and proceeded to pair them up and slice the 32degree angled ends. Then eight pairs had the steel I-Beam (the large version) clearance slot put in, and the other three had the narrow version of the steel clearance slots. Plus a further 11 pairs had the wall top-plate clearance notches cut away. The final job before lunch was to chop up more internal straight noggins and some more little filler noggins too.
After lunch, we exactly trimmed all the CLS timber pieces (that had the scarf jointed extensions) to match what the spreadsheet indicates. We brought in a heap of polystyrene foam strips and then vacuumed the whole workshop to remove most of the sawdust as possible and then finally got down to assembling the three rafters, which were E6 and E7 and the I6 rafters.
Tomorrow, weather permitting, we will take these three completed rafters outside and installed them and get our workshop cleared, ready for the next eight “M” rafters to be created on Saturday.