14 July 2014
A full crew today:
Sean, Ian, Luther, Ty, Perry, and some guy, trying to help out, who managed to
hit himself twice on the end of his left hand pointer finger with a
hammer. Alfred Bordeau arrived at 10, as
promised, with many, many hundred dollar bills which I was pleased to accept in
trade for the title and key to the Ranger.
Ian and Perry spent much of the day putting sheathing on the west
wall. Sean, Luther, and Ty started work
on the roof structure, first putting a bunch of roof sheathing on top of the
ceiling joists to serve as a work platform, then erecting scaffolding on top of
that so that they could look over the trees at the lake. The work area properly prepared, they installed
a short LVL beam across the northwest corner of the garage directly under the
exact center of the roof, then erected a 10 foot tall 4x4 post on top of that beam. Our massive (27¾″ long) ridge beam then was attached to the top of
the post. After lunch it was all hands on deck to
manhandle a couple of the LVL king common rafters up onto the work platform,
hoist them into position, and then attach them to the ridge beam and wall top
plate. Unfortunately a heavy rain shower
came rolling in at 3 o’clock, making further work aloft too treacherous to
continue. After the crew was gone, I
went to take the end-of-day picture and found that the camera has finally
seized up completely. VERY frustrated
(and with a throbbing finger to put icing on the cake) the dogs and I cooled
off in the lake for awhile, then I loaded the Tacoma with a LARGE volume of
“stuff” destined for Virginia.
