If you're like me, you've been lying awake at night wondering what the cabin will look like when the trusses go up. Last Saturday the trusses finally started moving into position:
This is what it looks like from the inside with about 5 trusses up. In order to get them up, they are lifted over the wall at the far end, slid along the top, and then the peak points down while everyone gets into position, ready to swing it 20 feet in the other direction.
The key to making this a success is the skid loader that the contractor brought. We place the trusses in the middle of the fork, and lift it up high enough to grab it from the top of the wall.
The last one was the hardest. We ran out of room to push them up from the inside with the big pusher stick, so we had to make a longer pusher stick, about 30 feet long, and lift the last truss straight up in the air as high as we could, and then just pick it up and place it on the edge of the wall.
The last truss is in place:
The last truss is in place:
The view from the inside:
The view from the woods:
The view from the woods:
Amazing work, Camp Freedom Fighters! Looking quite homey with the walls and trusses up. Those shots from the woods show a masterpiece of awesome. Heroes, all of you!
ReplyDeleteThats beautiful! I wish it could stay open like that with the sun lighting it up! The porch is looking good with its roof too!
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