Floating the Cement
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Set Up
The bolts, nuts, and tools are housed in these handy blue boxes. The metal pieces were placed around the cement before being erected.
First Column
Dan operated the bobcat and raised the first column while Karen guided it over the 4 anchor bolts. Next the girt was added.
Center Rafters
The bobcat was used to help connect the two 250 pound rafters which will be placed on the two center columns.
Bobcat Helped
The bobcat aided in lifting the 500 pounds of the middle rafters. The roust about is connected to the chain in the middle. It is the yellow piece of equipment that we rented.
Rafters
Dan is putting in the bolts on the east end rafters. Notice the yellow piece of equipment that is attached to the chain on top of the rafter. We rented this "roust about" which was supposed to lift loads 15 feet. Actually it went up only about 14 ½ feet.
West End Rafters
All of the rafters are up. Here you can see 12 columns, 10 girts, 2 header, and 6 rafters. Day 5
Up and Down
Dan went up and down the scaffold and/or ladder about 8 times per purlin. Lots of exercise. But he says it probably won't help his golf game.
Cables
Detail of cable eye bolt.
8 cables were attached, four under the purlins on the east bay and 2 on the north and 2 on the south side, making an X.
Overlapping
Overlapping the purlins and standing them up was tricky. 10 bolts were added to the purlins in the center attachments.
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