When Jim got to the land, Lake Angel was definitely in full force. In fact, 5-gallon buckets that we had sitting outside for our scrap metal had over 4" in them! Jim spent time getting the pump working and squeeging out the bottom floor.
Once he got that done, he took the truck and made a trip to go pick up his steel order.
After he got back and got the steel all unloaded, it started raining again. Groan. Thankfully, it didn't last too long and soon he was back to work making rafters (trying to ignore all the drips from up above).
Making more clip angles...
...and attaching them to the front deck.
Although the rain stopped, we had some really gusty winds all afternoon. It made it feel much colder than it really was. Plus putting up giant rafters in gusty winds isn't a great combination!
But we got another main rafter up and in place...
Then we got the next one put up - that's the last of the main rafters! Jim is very happy that this big open space is now full of steel!
Unfortunately, like we had to do on the other side, we had to move the bracing for the ridge beam in order to get the next rafter up.
Next we put up another dormer rafter...
And then one more!
This next rafter is very similar to the ones we put up between the main rafters and the start of the dormer rafters. This is basically a main rafter that will go from the ridge beam to the bottom of the wall. Structurally, this will help counterbalance all the forces from the valley rafters that we will be putting up soon. This rafter will eventually be covered by the wall in between the bedroom and the living room.
In order to make it fit, Jim had to make a little notch in the bottom track to allow the rafter to sit.
Bending down the track...
The rafter is in place...Jim made a longer clip angle that is secured to the truss below. This rafter is fastened to the clip angle and the stud to make everything very strong to be able to carry the forces.
Attaching the rafter at the top.
The next dormer rafter will be connected to the top of this rafter. Jim has to make that one, so we'll work on that tomorrow.
Had to use a little artificial light on my camera because the sun was setting quickly, but you can really see the shape of the shed dormer from this angle.
The front looks amazing too!
On kind of a funny note, we've been trying to get in touch with the Hitachi service center where we sent Jim's driver to be repaired again. He's really trying to limp along with his other one that is acting up too. I talked to someone yesterday and they were supposed to call back - they didn't. I called again this morning and talked to a guy who had to investigate and call me back - he just said that it was being shipped out today. But the original person I talked to yesterday called Jim back today and gave him the true story - apparently it was shipped out a few days ago...but they sent it to their own address, not ours! So it came back and they had to figure that out and reship it. Hopefully it will come soon!
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