I feel like Spencer junior!

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Since action shots are few and far between, here is another...

Yea I know...bit slower than the speed of sound!

 

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I mentioned several iterations in the project.

Here was the first idea. The new roof would be tacked onto the old shed and the original shed's roof would stick up at its original height...

 

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Then I thought, why not blend things better and maintain the original roof line for the total width of the building, and make a different slope for the new section beside the shed.

I needed a shallower slope on the side, so I could have enough clearance to bring the tractor in without having to fold the ROPS at any point.

So this second scheme evolved...

 

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I just have to cry on someone's shoulder about this. I wonder if this is the standard way to make a tape measure???

Notice that there is a loop where you can attach the tape to a nail. I was careful to measure and make sure that when the tape was pulled on the nail that the 12 inch mark was indeed at 12 inches. It was perfect. So I used this to lay out the locations of post holes and so on.

THEN when double checking I discovered that I was really out of wack! Look closely at the tape measure. The first 12 inches doesn't count!!!!

Why the HECK [not the work in my mind] anyone would make a tape measure like this is beyond me! Had to do a lot over because of this...

 

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I did not want to spread any crushed stone until I had the roof up and the final grade set...but I got so tired of lugging 5 lbs of wet clay around on each foot that I decided to waste some stone and make my life more enjoyable....

 

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At the end of the day...I think it was the end... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif...I stuck up a rafter to see how it would go, and to also make a measurement so I knew how much I would have to angle the end of the beam that would sit on that beam at the left end of that rafter.

That slope will continue up to the ridge of the original roof of the little shed.

 

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A different angle shot.

You can make out a string on the left that gives an idea of how the roof like will look when this is all over...

 

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The posts are prepared to receive the 2x12s that will make up the built up 8x12 that will go over the door ways.

I had a couple 26 foot 2x12s laying around here in the way for 15 years...I will use them here, with shorter ones between them. I am over building this, but I might want to hoist something up in a doorway later and it is now or never to make these beams strong enough.

 

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Sure beats struggling with one of these 26 footers by hand.

Felt funny with that wide thing in back like a wing or something. I felt like I was about to take off...

 

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I tried twice to lift that 26 foot 2x12 into place.

Let me tell you it kind of hurts when you have one end of a 26 foot 2x12 on your shoulder and the other end fall off and drops 8 feet to the ground. TWICE!!!

Time to use the tractor. The second time I tried by hand I nailed some strips of wood to the top of the 2x12 [around the center post] hoping this would help me control it, but it didn't.

The root problem was that I keep calling that old shed 12 x12, but it is really 12x12.5...and so the width where I want to use those 26 foot 2x12s is not 26 feet, but 26.5 feet...this is not a problem in the end...but it sure made it easy for the far end to fall off!

Pallet forks go on the loader bucket and I move real slow as I lift that bugger up...it looks like I just have enough height as I curl the bucket back...

Notice anything funny in the picture?

Well...that 16' 8x12 build up beam used to be horizontal! Bummer...