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Phase 2:  Framing (Continued)

Friday, November 18, 2005 dawned frosty and clear, with no wind.  I arrived at the jobsite around 0730, choosing to arrive slightly later than on Tuesday since I had been so much earlier than everyone on that day, and found Bob, Rod, and a helper (Randy) at work on some last minute details, such as applying Typar infiltration barrier to the gable truss ends and preparing staging and other necessary things for the job ahead.
 


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Shop Planning
Phase 1:  Site Prep and Foundation
Phase 2:  Framing
Phase 3:  Finish Work
Phase 4:  Shop Setup

Since I had been there last, the crew had framed the office walls, plumbed and squared all the walls in the building, and rebraced everything.  The office, with its newly framed walls and two pair of large windows overlooking the nearby field, looked almost like a place I might want to spend time.




Shortly after 0800, the crane arrived, and before long was lifting the prefabricated set of five trusses into place.  Near the end, as the boom was extended further down, the overload alarm went off, but y depressing a bypass, the operator could still allow the crane to move, relying on his experience to determine the ultimate limits of his equipment.  At the time, the trusses were hanging in position just above the walls, with no further lowering of the boom required.  Please don't write me about safe crane operation.






The first set took a while to get properly positioned, as the five of them together were too heavy to easily move, but after some time the two guys on the staging managed to get them in place and tacked down, and the crane returned for the back gable.  The wind caught the sheathed gable as it went up, making for a few interesting moments before it was brought back under complete control, but before long it too was safely in place atop the wall framing.  Shortly thereafter, a strong gust of wind ripped the Typar right off most of the gable, so the preparations were for naught.




One by one, the trusses went up, and were secured.  By lunchtime, half were installed.  I couldn't be on site during the afternoon, unfortunately, but things appeared to be well on track for completion.  Later, I learned that indeed they had finished with the last truss just before dark, right around 1600.










I was back onsite on Sunday, mostly to check out the progress on the shop.  The roof sheathing was nearly done by that point, with only a few partial sheets remaining.  It looked great, and the building seemed to suddenly seem larger than it had so far (buildings often seem small during various portions of the construction process).  In addition, the office walls were sheathed, with the beginnings of preparation for building roof framing for the office underway.

These photos show the nearly fully-sheathed building on Sunday afternoon.  Good work, guys!








This series of photos shows the inside spaces of the shop--the two boat bays, the shop bay, and the office.







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This page was originally posted on November 21, 2005.
Updates 11/29/05