Ottertail Country

Ottertail Country
Ottertail South

May 30, 2007

Wednesday update....


So here we are, atempting to put up the flying gable rafters. Ivan is bracing the first one and you can see the second one sticking up in the extreme right hand side of the pic.



We built the units on sawhorses down below, then hoisted them up and installed, aligned, etc.



It took just about as long to put on these four structures as it did to put up all the trusses the night before. Ivan looks happy here, as he has about two nails to go before quitting for the evening. Facia board, roof deck and shingles come next....

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Coming right along!!!! You guys must be tired. Raining in Milwaukee right now - Thurs. aft - and we do need it.

Lucy

yram said...

so how do you keep the wooden walls afixed to the cement floor?

Carlo said...

Gravity, voodoo and smoke and mirrors.

Carlo said...

Oh, and did I mention the anchor bolts that we put in the slab? They go up through the bottom plate and get a washer and nut on top.

yram said...

did we ever learn what the "strange markings" here and there were? did i miss that?