June 29, 20242 yr Popular Post 43 minutes ago, DAB said: 1. hire crane 2. borrow large, heavy safe/large weight 3. suspend safe over roof 4. drop safe onto roof 5. enjoy your new hole in the roof (be sure to record all this for youtube, so you earn some money to fix all the damage under roof) people have no imagination anymore.... Wile E. Coyote, LLC
June 30, 20242 yr Author Popular Post 12 hours ago, DAB said: 1. hire crane 2. borrow large, heavy safe/large weight 3. suspend safe over roof 4. drop safe onto roof 5. enjoy your new hole in the roof (be sure to record all this for youtube, so you earn some money to fix all the damage under roof) people have no imagination anymore.... The guys that put the gable roof on the late 1950's addition broke the crane lifting the last 72' (heaviest to begin with gable end) truss into place because they decided to put the T1-11 siding on before the lift. All of the other trusses are open center storage trusses. Blew a seal on one of the hydraulic cylinders, lucky it was the last truss to go up. The crane lost about 35 gallons of hydraulic fluid getting it up into place. Crane operator stated, " Not sure if I'll get this one up as soon as he started the lift, have a feeling it might be too heavy." The cylinder started spraying fluid about halfway through the lift. BTW Now have ventilation between the two attics. Took about 20 minutes for it to become tolerable in the addition attic after we cut vent holes into the gable end wall.
June 30, 20242 yr Popular Post This job was even harder than I thought. Braced the big log but when the upper part cut off the big one dropped even more. I had started a wedge but still pinched saw. Fortunately between the extra cut and the steel wedges I had it was easy to remove. Managed to almost get two slabs cut before I ran out of gas. Trip to town and back to finish just as a shower started. Unbelievable that it took almost 3 hours counting travel.
June 30, 20242 yr 3 hours ago, Gerald said: This job was even harder than I thought. Braced the big log but when the upper part cut off the big one dropped even more. I had started a wedge but still pinched saw. Fortunately between the extra cut and the steel wedges I had it was easy to remove. Managed to almost get two slabs cut before I ran out of gas. Trip to town and back to finish just as a shower started. Unbelievable that it took almost 3 hours counting travel. That IS a lot of work!
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