Very Carefully Preparing PA Hip Rafter
Today, we continued with preparing the LVL timber flanges for the first of the main corners of the roof, over the Great Room, in the corner where the P wall…
Vacuum System Construction Continues
These last two days have seen more work on the new Vacuum System for the workshop. Yesterday saw the electrical wiring, switches and sockets being fitted to the machine module…
LVL Hip Rafters Preparation Continues, Light Bulb Moment and Update to Drawing!
After we finished off doing the wheels for the scaffolding tower, we continued preparing the bits and pieces for constructing the LVL Hip Rafters for the PA, EH and HI…
Final Wheel Is Completed for Scaffolding Tower
This morning, we finished off the fourth wheel by drilling the holes into the foot plate and bolting the wheel together to the foot. We then shortened down all the…
Scaffolding Tower Has Wheels Fitted To Its Feet!
While we waited for the rain to stop, we rescued the castor wheels from some old tool object which served in the past to help move around the massive steel…
The Next Set of 3 LVL Hip Rafters Beginns Construction
Today, we started on the next three rafters, the corner Hip Rafters that goes in the main corners of the house. They are the Great Room “PA” corner, the Utility…
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…
Lovely Bonfire While It Rained!
This afternoon, with the rain that is coming, we decided to do a bit of site clearance and have a bonfire in our incinerator! We have been building up trug…
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!)…