Something different to move with a CK-20

[JonKioti]

Hi guys,

A shot for this past summer, where I needed to move around one of my "bigger" woodworking projects with my CK-20.

I made 5 of these from 6x6 and 6x8; they are 24' in length and are now installed over what will be a new kitchen.

The extension to the house started with needing a place to store my tractor inside....

Anyone else got a picture of something unusual they've moved with their machine?

Jon

 

[JDeerekid]

Wow those are some nice looking trusses. Are you going to leave them exposed or are you going to put a cealing up. Are they required to be that big or are you just building the overboard, not that there is nothing wrong with that.

 

[rimshot]

Originally Posted by JonKioti View Post
Hi guys,
Anyone else got a picture of something unusual they've moved with their machine?

Jon
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Sure Jon. Take a look at the size of firewood we grow around here. As you can see, it takes a CK20 to load my wood stove.

Nice Trusses you got there!


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[JonKioti]

Rimshot, you may need that to load your woodstove, but I expect you only need to load it once per year, correct?

JDeereKid, I will leave those exposed. They are on 60" centers, so the size of the timbers is about right for the load. In other areas on the house I have regular gang nailed trusses where I wanted a flat ceiling.

Thanks for the picture - that's impressive.

Jon

 

[deputyrpa]

Very nice trusses, KiotiJohn! Did you fab your own plates?

LOL Rimshot!

Although I don't have a CK20, I have many uses for the DK45. For instance, it is extremely efficient for squashing nasty water snakes....

 

[Gittyup]

Beautiful trusses, there Jon. Nice worksmanship.

Impressive piece of firewood, Rim. It's almost as big as the tractor. Log splitter otta have fun with that!

 

[Dmace]

Nice looking trusses! If you are going to leave them exposed (which something so good looking should be), how do you plan on insulating seeing how that is to be the new kitchen? Located in Canada, I bet you want at least R-30 in the roof. Good idea getting the refrigerator in there before the doors are in. Putting a 36" fridge through a 36" door is not easy...

 

[JonKioti]

Thanks for the compliments.

The trusses will be left exposed; they are topped with a 2x10 roof with R-31 insulation. We have been painting the ceiling in between them for the last few days.

I had a local steel shop fabricate the plates (they are customer of mine, so that worked out well); the bolts were from another company in Ontario who looked after getting them "yellowed".

You know, I might have to pay a little extra on freight from most things, but at least I don't have to worry about snakes out here!

Jon

 

[DIRTCUTTER]

Thanks for the compliments.

The trusses will be left exposed; they are topped with a 2x10 roof with R-31 insulation. We have been painting the ceiling in between them for the last few days.

I had a local steel shop fabricate the plates (they are customer of mine, so that worked out well); the bolts were from another company in Ontario who looked after getting them "yellowed".

You know, I might have to pay a little extra on freight from most things, but at least I don't have to worry about snakes out here!

Jon

Very nice, do you know the weigh of the trusses and how high was the lift.

 

[JonKioti]

I had a boom truck come out to lift them onto the top of the second floor; they weighed 840-900 lbs each.

I used the loader to take them off the sawhorses, stand them upright, then rotate and park them off to the side of my driveway until they were placed by the boom truck. The boom truck had a 150' reach.

These trusses were clearly the limit of what I could lift with my tractor. The largest chord, a 24' 6x8 was the limit of what I can lift myself. I don't know how I would have managed without the tractor to get each one clear of my assembly area.

Jon