Big weekend

I drug the same friend up once again to attempt finishing the roof. Saturday morning we left early and got started up there. Saturday we finished setting all of the rafters on both sides of the cabin, then tied them all together at the ridge, lots of time on the third tower of the scaffolding…
Next we carried 36 sheets of plywood over to sheet the roof. I pushed them up 20 +/- feet of the ladder to my buddy on the roof, he then carried them to their spot and nailed them off…

Sunday we sheeted both sides of the roof and were out of there about 5:30, in time to listen to the Red Sox game on the radio. What a lot of work but it feels good to have the roof on, and at least something to drain the rain. See more photos here : http://www.blackstarranchwy.com/

Rafters over head

Well - we have made big progress the last two weekends, last weekend we had all the posts and beams lifted into place, and this weekend we started setting rafters, which is the goal, roof over head and "dried in" for the winter. Lots of help from friends. More to see at http://www.blackstarranchwy.com/

Posts beams and a loft...OH MY!!!

Big progress this weekend. Melissa skipped out, but I had my friend (mountain man champ) Darek come up to help lift the posts and beams into place. I hired a couple old guys with an even older cherry-picker to help. Big help they were.

The first two posts Darek and I lifted using my wall jacks and it went well. Then the cran came up to lift the center post, and the other beams. We were able to set all of the loft joists, and by the end of the weekend I framed a short wall to complete all the walls.

Next weekend, Rafters!!!