Rafters: Part 3

Well, the stubborn ingenious man figured out how to raise the remaining rafters on his own.  I still don't know how he did it!  Leverage, strength, sweat and a few pulled muscles.  He humored me once by letting me hold the rope for him, but I don't think he really needed my help.  Because he was running out of horizontal room on top of the walls he raised the last several rafters and stacked them together in the center of the house.  Once all of them were vertical, he put a 2x12 through the peak of all of them and attached it to the far West rafter.  Then he slid each rafter along into its final placement from West to East fixing them in place as he went.   

Chris used rope to secure each rafter to its neighbour as he stacked them

Here you can see the rafters coming back to the centre of the house from the West side

Two more to go!

Done!

Feels like a real roof already!

22 roof rafters in all

Chris attaches the strapping that the metal roof will be fixed to

Site inspectors give us a pass

I guess its spring now

The site is pretty mucky

Chris built us our own temporary boardwalk to get us through the mud