Assembling of “O” and “N” Rafters begins
This morning, we switched over to our latest and last angled cuts, the 45degrees angles, for the webbing. These were for the “O” set of rafters, all six of them,…
“N” and “O” Rafters Being Prepared
Today, while it was a damp horrible day (and also Shaun is restricted to light duties!), we worked in our workshop to cut and prepare the material pieces to build…
Two Days Lost to Back Injury
Work on doing the rafters was postponed while Shaun recovers from his muscles injuries. The recovery is going well. With the weekend here now, he should see him have enough…
Process Heap of Five Year Old Oak Timber
While Shaun recovers from his back injury, Stephen went and process our old collection of Oak Timber we bought five years ago. It has been in our garden shed all…
Tower Crashes Down!!
At about 4:30pm, on a cooling afternoon but still lovely sunshine, we had a bit of a disaster! We were moving the scaffolding tower to its new position to install…
The Final “P” Rafters Goes Up!
With a very lovely sun shining down upon us, we proceeded to install the final set of “P” rafters up into the roof framework. The four rafters that goes up…
Preparing For “N” Rafters
This afternoon, after a interruption to our work flow due to other meetings, we first went outside to verify the measurements we made last week on the “N” section and…
Oak Timber Finally All Classified and Quantified!
We started early today about 9am as there was a forecast of rain coming at around lunch time so we thought we would get as much as we can on…
“N” Rafter Installed and Measurements taken for “N” and “O” secitons
This afternoon, while we had some nice weather, even though it was quite chilly, we went and got our odd “N” rafter (the middle one, which is number 6) up…
Oak Timber Surveyed and Moved to Storage Rack
Today, Monday, we resumed the task of quantifying our Oak timber and moving each plank around to our made-for-purpose storage rack. We did some sorting on Saturday but only for…