Installing Temporary Adjustment Struts at Top of Legs
In the morning, we spent making 7 wooden struts with metal tabs on the ends to control and bring together the distances at the top of the six legs that…
Seventh And Final Leg Is Standing Proud!
On a rather warmer day, we got the seventh and final steel leg hoisted and positioned in the required place. We prepared for this operation by making two bracing beams…
Third Pair of Leg Are Up and Connected
This morning, in a freezing strong wind, we connected the second pair of legs (number 2 and 6) back to the first pair (number 1 and 7) using U Channel…
Next Two Legs Goes up!
It wasn’t so bad today in regards to ice, there were still patches of ice here and there but they were just melting and breaking up as soon as you…
Hurray! Two Legs Are Up and Tied Together!
Yippee! The temperature overnight was warm, positively balmy at 5°C and the water lying around on our concrete didn’t freeze again and nearly all the remaining ice had melted by the…
Repaired and Modified Scaffolding Platform
Since it got dark and too cold to work outside, we carried on in the workshop to repair the damaged platform segment (this is the middle of the 3 segments…
Crane Unit Completed
We finished off building our little crane unit by making a hollow tube attachment welded on to a metal plate, this will hold the other end of the horizontal bar…
Hoisting Crane Framework Is Constructed
Today, we worked on designing and building a simple crane/hoist framework so we can haul up our steel pieces into place. Using a steel pipe we had lying around (an…
Day 2 of Assembly of Roof Steel Framework
We started today, in amongst the showers of snow and hailstones, by finishing off the scaffolding tower with the installation of the wooden platform at the top. This took longer than…
Assembly of Steel Framework Starts At Last!
Today, we started the big task of assembling the central steel framework that makes up the key structural core for the whole house. it was a very interesting start to…