How to measure a day . . .

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No nails, or hours or scratches, or cuts of wood can today measured in but the hard work from everyone putting in more then enough time to make sure that everything is exactly correct to the 1/16th of an inch.

 

In the past couple of days things have been moving on fairly quickly, we are ahead of schedule and keep on cruising.  Thus far we have all four walls up and almost completelysheathed, just a few parts at the way top left to do.   The inside North and East walls are framed and the framing for the bathroom is complete as well.  The greatest achievement for the day would be place and securing the main top beam for the roof structure.  I started this morning placing sheathing on the West side wall with Brittany, we completed as much as we could do while on the scaffolding but the cabin is higher then both of us can reach even with added high.  Then we moved on to cutting the 2×8 for the loft floor.  After having a great lunch under a neat by tree we got right back to it, working on the interior framing for the East side wall, and finishing the day off with the framing for the bathroom.  The day has been one of the longest thus far but definitely did not feel like it since everyone was busy on the tasks that needed to get finished.  Now we can get a good start on the things that we need to do for tomorrow.

 

 Sheathing South exterior side  Sheathing North interior side  Sheathing North exterior side

 

 

 

8-1-11 Day 5

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I’d have to say that today’s been one of the more peculiar day’s we’ve had thus far. I’ll elaborate.

Firstly Dusty, Chris and I started a platform that resides on the western wall. The platform’s part of a ramp system that, I believe, runs along the south and west side but that system is yet to be built. I’m curious about how it’s going to look and how it’ll be built. I guess the unusual thing about it that we didn’t really complete it; we built it 16 feet from the west wall’s door and stopped near the corner. The reasoning is that we will be meeting this ramp with on from the south side with reclaimed wood from Home & Garbage. Another thing that’s unusual about the ramp is that we didn’t completely fasten it because the incline’s going to eventually change. Finally it’s strange but this platform’s frame was built the first day. Funny, huh?

Then John, Mellissa and I started and finished sheathing the bottom of the west wall with O.S.B. That was interesting because due to the large openings in the west wall we it seemed that we weren’t really doing that much; but the precision required and visual difference are both ridiculous. John, Melissa and I needed to be super careful lining everything up and making sure that all of the openings were flush with the framing. When we were done, it was fun to  see the skeleton of a building become a solid form.

Ok, and finally, this is probably the thing that stood out most… I’m sure a hurricane hit our site today. It started in the morning with a small sprinkle, no big deal. Then the lightning came and struck right behind the building. John and I were standing outside near the east entrance of the warehouse then we both saw a blinding flash that came from nowhere. We stared at each other for a moment before an earsplitting BOOM shock the ground and the building; we could actually here crackling in the air. Then we decided it’d be in our best interest if we went inside. Then the rain and the wind came and visibility was lost, all the saws were brought inside and we continued building away.

Crazy day.

Later

Nic Pietron

Group 2

Log 5

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Log 5 –  – today was all about the details.  In the morning we started out by constructing and tacking the ramp/porch structure to the west and east walls.  There were a few mishaps that we had to correct but we got it done quickly.  by the time we were wrapping up with that, myself and ty were tasked to take the burgandy bomber (my van) to go pick up the recycled wood from better homes and garbage!  and piling the wood from front to back and stacking the cedar on the racks of the van we were off!  Since I had 16 foot cedar strapped to a 13ish foot van, we took lake street all the way to Snelling instead of 94.  Not 20 minutes before we got back it started to tsunami and we had to stay inside for about 2 hours. Towards the end of the day we had fellow classmates Brittney and Lauren stop by on there way home from the cabin, needless to say they LOVED IT!  I finished off the day with sheathing part of the west wall and calling it a day.

7-31-11 Group 1

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Sunday: the day of rest…oh wait

Although today was a short work day, a great deal of progress was accomplished. The morning started out with groups framing the North wall, framing the roof pitches, and mounting the top plates on top of the headers. Mike, Andrew, Johnny and myself measured, cut, and assembled the roof pitches for the South side. Everyone else seemed Continue reading →