We cut the bevel end on the remaining rafter left-over from yesterday, namely M17. We are still trying to work out why our Bevel Slicing Machine is trying to pull off line but we have managed to subdued this tendency and hopefully for the future slicing tasks, it will behave itself!
So we took out the four completed rafters to finish off the “M” section of the roof, filling the gap over the Great Room’s roof.
Rafters-M14-to-M17-Installed
Then after lunch, we started the preparation work of getting all the webbing and flanges cut and sliced ready to make the rafters for the “I” section this time. We brought in 24 strips of the plywood webbing, plus 7 lengths of 63mm CLS and 6 lengths of the 89mm CLS timber. All the plywood strips has been sliced with their 32 degree angled ends plus also the notches in appropriate ones where there are either to fit over a wall or the steel I-Beam.
We finish off the day by chopping the 32 degree ends on all the CLS timber lengths and on Thursday, we will cut these down to their proper lengths.