Fun with Time Lapse!

Our friend DoubleA not only spent his free time volunteering for the Truss Team, he also created this super time lapse video of the event. You can see their hours of sweat and toil in less than 60 seconds. Way cool. Thank you AA!

Truss Raising Party

If you invite enough friends, in four short hours you can have the framing for your roof!

The Faster You Run the Behinder You Get

The foreman has been harassing me about how long it's been between posts, and he is correct. Waaaay too long. I apologize. So here is what we've been up to for the past three weeks. Hold on to your hats... it's going to be a long ride!

Since John is doing the vast majority of the work himself without any assistance, he's invented his patented "Don't-Fall-Off-the-Slab Slab"

 And his patented "Too-Far Bar"

You can see that he had to make some adjustments to the Too-Far-Bar...
this early prototype wouldn't let him go far enough!

 You can see them in action in this video of the raising of the first wall!



After a few short days, he had all the walls framed. Pretty!

The crane arrived with the roof trusses. The crane operator, Mario, was a true artist... just a little tap here and there and voila... it all fell into place.


We then preyed on the goodness of some of our easy-going friends who had said "if you ever need anything" and "invited" them to a Truss Raising Party! Stay tuned for the fun, including a time lapse showing the progress of the trusses.