29 August 2014

Perry shimmed up three of the jack rafters and, voilá, the two misbehaving hip rafters weren’t misbehaving after all.  Perry put on the ledger boards (until we ran out of 2x4’s of sufficient length) to which will be attached the outlooks (to which are attached the soffits).  He then marked all the rafter tails for their shave and a haircut, i.e., plumb and level cuts.  I finished installing the blocking in the dressing area. Demonstrating a superior aptitude as a forklift operator, while moving my radial arm saw, using the Kubota, from up by the woodshed down to the house Shop, managed to severely bend one of the legs on the steel saw stand. Grrr!!!!  Luckily, a little sledgehammer persuasion and some duct tape soon rectified that problem.  In anticipation of some heavy rain on Sunday, we tented the sauna building with an old green tarp that Perry had lying around.  Built and installed a temporary wooden chimney cap.  Perry left at noon for a long Labor Day weekend up t’ Calais.  I went down to Giddings Equipment in Pittsford after lunch and, for $5, had the Kubota’s right lower stabilizer pin welded back together.  Spent the rest of the afternoon moving leftover concrete block and brick out of the driveway and cleaning up the detritus from the chimney building lollapalooza.