The Companion AB LVL Rafter Is Now Installed!
Today, we carried on configuring and adapting various equipment and tools to help us with the task of lifting these roof Rafters up into place. For example, we reinforced the…
New Lifting Mechanism Created and Finally The DE LVL Rafter is Up and In Place!
We finished creating the new Lifting Support Framework for the winch, with some more welding of reinforcing struts at the top and handles at the bottom to allow us twisting…
Lifting Equipment Saga!
Today, we resumed the challenge of lifting our very long rafter (well there are two of them waiting to go up .. but one at a time – thank you!)…
Troubles With Hauling LVL Rafter Into Place
This morning, we sliced off the bevel wedge that needed removing off the top end of the LVL Rafter so it will slide and fit tight into the metal bracket.…
LVL Rafters AB and DE Are Now Constructed
Today, we assembled the two LVL diagonal Rafters in our template and glued and nailed it all together. These particular rafters are just under 6metres long and they weigh 60…
The Diagonal LVL Rafters Are Slowly Coming
We have been working on sorting out the design and calculations of the first set of LVL diagonal Rafters, namely, the two rafters that comes from the C Ridge, down…
C Ridge Installed
Today, it was the task of taking out our C Ridge beam out and installing it into place. But first, we had to cut away some little bits of wood…
C Ridge Beam All Made Up!
Today, we resumed the work on creating the first Roof Element, namely the C Ridge beam that goes from the Steel I-Beam (the Skylight) to the Front Door wall, labelled…
Measuring for Real and Building Gable Wall Over Front Door Wall
Today, we took our Laser level measuring equipment and did some Reality measurements. We wanted to see what things were in the real world, rather than what’s on the drawing…
Created Rafter Template and Jig Unit
Today, we set out to build the enormous template that will hold all the pieces that makes up a rafter element. The longest rafter we have to manufacture is 6.1metres…