In a revolutionary move I placed a portable stereo out on the worksite today. This was rather than have the stereo blaring from out of the garage, on windless days possibly entertaining the whole Sefton / Mt Grey Downs area. Well. Maybe just the neighbours. I don’t know if they can hear it, maybe they can in which case it would be annoying, music you are aware of but can’t hear well is not pleasant. Ray Charles and Huey Lewis and the News provided the entertainment. Ray was awesome. Huey, not so much. Is it really hip to be square? Probably a good building motto. Not one I’ve cared too much about. Hip to be close enough.
I finished the 5 trusses for the inside of the shack. Paul and Simon Bisseker turned up at a good time. What? They were just in time to put the trusses onto the roof. Say that again? Before we could do that though we needed to pull the walls into alignment with each other. The bent wood meant that they were pretty stubbornly separated.
We wound the snot out of the clamp which pulled them into shape. Until I used the saw blade to brace it, the clamp was just chewing a hole into the wood. It was really satisfying to see the walls come flush.
We then had some pretty serious dramas with the Cyclone straps, thanks for recommending them Justin, thanks a lot. The way I had thought they were supposed to fold was wrong. We learned this after we’d folded all of them. I still didn’t know how they were supposed to fit, so on each application I’d ask which way they were supposed to fit.
The first truss was pretty straight I think, but the top plate wasn’t. Getting someone to hang on the end of the truss bent it nicely. Hang that way.
With some seriously ugly nailing we managed to get 2 of the trusses to grip pretty well.
Thanks for coming out today guys, it was a big help.
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