The first thing he worked on was marking the driveway. After he did some grading work this week to get the water to run off a little more into the grassy area, he ordered a truckload of gravel to be delivered today. We know we'll be up and down the driveway much more this winter so we need to have it in good shape. This blue line just marks the center of the driveway to help the driver.
Jim moved quite a bit of dirt doing the grading - so this pile will eventually find its way on top of the septic system to get it under cover before winter.
The truck came with almost 24 tons of crusher run - it has a mixture of big and small gravel to help compact better.
After the truck pulled out, Jim smoothed it out a little with the Bobcat.
Although it's just the first gravel, it really makes it look like a driveway now!
Jim spent the rest of the morning making rafters - he got 4 more made!
The first one we put up was the dormer rafter that mates with the big support rafter.
Then we put up the track that makes the big support beam into a box rafter - this one was a little tricky to get in place at the bottom because of having to cut the track to put the rafter in. But we got it and Jim put a few screws to hold it in place.
Next was another dormer rafter...
Jim brings up the next dormer rafter...
...and gets it fastened in place.
Then it was back to another track piece - these are really long pieces since they go on the main rafters and are flexible so they are a little more difficult to handle and get up into place.
Fastening the two rafters together...
While the scaffolding on this side of the building, Jim decided to spend time and do all of the screws on both of the box rafters. His wrists were definitely feeling it when he was done - these have to be fastened every foot both top and bottom in addition to all the normal fastening.
In order to move the scaffolding over to the other side of the building, Jim had to redo the ridge beam bracing. He put a brace going from the shoring post to the valley rafter first.
Then took down the original bracing and used a piece of it to add to his new bracing on the other side.
Now we were able to move the scaffolding. Before we did the track rafter, Jim finished up the rest of the screws fastening the dormer and main rafter at the top.
Then we put the track rafter up and Jim fastened it down and then did all the screws up and down the box rafter.
End of the day shot...
Another day of good progress on the rafters, plus we were able to get stone on the driveway. In addition, Jim finally was able to secure help to move the pool table slate out of the storage unit this weekend. It's too heavy for me to help him so we really needed another guy. Hopefully, it will all work out and we'll be officially closed out of the two storage units!
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