Saying we woke really early at 6.30am on Saturday morning would seem strange to some people. My mom would say she goes to sleep at 6.30am some days …. Christian’s dad would say he has been on his walk, bought a loaf of bread from the Schnelsen bakery and had his breakfast by 6.30am…..
However Christian and I are not morning people, and so for both of us being on site at 6.45am was a major achievement - one that has only happened once before for the wision house (the day of the main slab concrete pour).
The crane (same crane as the last one) ). was hired for 5 hours this morning to put up the massive timber beams. (Longest being 450mmx75mm x 10.3metres long). Kudos to the crane operator. Sometimes you get idiots who shouldn’t be allowed to drive a moped let alone a crane. Sometimes you get someone who treats his crane like a complex delicate piece of machinery and compares it to a Ferrari. We had the latter. Very lucky.
We also needed a few extra hands so we enlisted the help of Dave and Dale – who did our concrete blockwork and slab for the toilet block. Dave and Dale are also going to install our roof panels for us –which is something we didn’t want to stuff around by doing it ourselves. (Also, somebody is scared of heights………………….)
So it was Ansgar, Dave, Dale and Christian, and me being the "hold the rachet, screws, spanner, bolts nuts etc person" (a role i take quite seriously sometimes).
Here are some photos of the roof beams going in…. Notching out on the columns were spot on – All of the beams pretty damn dead level when they went in – maybe a few millimeters off at worst.
All in all a very successful 5.5 hours of having the crane around. We even used it to lift in the roof panels onto the first floor so Dave and Dale could get to them easily.
Here are photos from the day.
Our lovely neighbor June stood at her back porch watching with her fingers crossed the 10.3 metre long beams hovering over her back yard……
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