Log Framing

On Thursday I had a crane come to set the logs. I also hired two people to help. It took about 7 1/2 hours to set them all. Everything fit together well (whew!) with just a little adjusting here and there as we went along. It was a beautiful day too. Click on a photo to enlarge it then click the back button to get back to the blog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The front gable dormer still needs to be framed. I will have some log accents that will not need to be set with a crane. I will also add rafter tails to the interior logs (the ones that don't extend past the wall). Hard to explain why I am doing it this way but I will explain that later when it is in place and there are pictures to show.

 

 

The porch roof unit weighed 3000 pounds according to the crane operator.

IMG_2082 from fred beal on Vimeo.
crane from fred beal on Vimeo.