“H” Section All Prepared and Ready for Manufacture

These last two days has been the task of making various bits and pieces to continue manufacturing more rafters, the main task being slicing up a further 24 sheets of 8 foot by 4 foot plywood boards into our 400mm wide strips. This was yesterday’s job, having to break into our second pile of plywood sheets, unwrapping several layers of protection: one tarpaulin outer cover, then a plastic “bag” and loads of Clingfilm off the pallet containing 75 sheets and removing 24 of them and, hey hoe, wrapping it all up again!
Today, we proceeded to chop up five lengths of 63mm CLS timber plus 7 lengths of 89mm CLS timber, to produce enough material to create thirteen individual rafters to build the “H” section of the roof, having seven of them cut with the usual bird’s mouth notches, a further three with half bird mouth notches and the other three just being single bottom flanges only. Then, using all the various left-over pieces, we went through them all to make 28 wide 89mm CLS diagonal noggings, a further 61 63mm diagonal noggings and loads of straight one (just over a hundred of them!). We only needed 24 straights, 9 wide 89mm diagonals and 18 narrow 63mm diagonals to do our “H” rafters, all the rest went in the garden shed for the next section “P” and “N” and so on.
We turned to the next task of slicing down a heap of webbing plywood strips to their required sizes, putting in the wall notches in each pair as we went along and also using further left-over pieces to try to recover more of the “waste”.
The day came to the conclusion with us cleaning the workshop of all the saw dust etc. and then filling up the glue dispenser bottle so it is all ready for a fresh and quick start in the morning on assembling and making these “H” nine rafters plus some four “odd” ones.