2.22.2016

This was a tough day.  Jim had a couple of appointments this afternoon so he knew it was going to be an extremely short day - he had to close down no later than 2:30.

This morning he got another rafter made - this one is the first side piece that will get attached to the hip rafter.

He also got all the finishing work done on the hip rafter...

Then he spent time getting as many fasteners in as he was able to reach on all the rafters on the back side.

This called for Jim to get into some pretty tough positions - none of these are real accessible.

In order to start work on the front side, the top level of scaffolding had to come down.  Jim also had to unfasten the legs of the scaffolding tower from the landing and move it back towards the carriage house and refasten them so that the tower wouldn't be in the way of the hip rafter.

Putting on the clip angle...

Jim also put a catch angle up on the top as a place to set the hip rafter until he could get it into place.

The hip rafter is made of the heavier gauge steel so it's quite the challenge to get it up in place.  Jim brought it outside first...

...and then just had to lift it up.

He first set it up on the scaffolding until he could reposition.

Bringing it up...

...and setting it in place.  However, Jim realized that the clip angle wasn't in the right position.  These are the things that happen when you are in a hurry.

So that meant bringing the rafter down and then redoing the clip angle...

Let's try that again...

Setting it into place.  Now it fits perfectly on the clip angle but Jim isn't as happy with the fit on the ridge.  So once again, he had to bring the rafter down and back into the shop.

 

It was really frustrating for Jim to have to leave instead of being able to go back in and tweak the angle so that he could get the rafter back up into place.  But he had to leave it - tomorrow is another day and another challenge!

 

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