Touch the Earth Ranch-House
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Placing the Vigas & Roof Sheathing
The backhoe, a chain, a loop of climbing webbing and a carabineer. An easy pickup. Now well dried, the logs weigh-in at about 400-500 lbs. a piece.
When each log was placed, I shinnied out onto it to release the loop of climbing webbing.
The
backhoe operator arrived at our site at 1:00PM, at 6:00PM all the vigas were in
place. Now the hardest part of placing the logs, leveling them. Each
log was picked for it's straight-line character. At least one line on the
log had to be straight, before I would cut it. This line must now be
placed "up" and in line with the rest of the logs, to create a flat surface.
This effort took me three weeks, more than I'd anticipated.
Here, we begin to do the can-wall in-fill between the vigas. The 4" x 4" is used to make-straight the line between logs.
Like so!!
When this is completed, and the logs undergo a final working to make that straight line, the sheathing can be applied.
After much tuning and grooming of knots, bumps and lumps, we were ready to apply the sheathing. We used rough-sawn 1" x 8"s. Something to consider when using rough-sawn lumber is that it shrinks, having not been processed and dried like 'finished' lumber.
A pneumatic nailer is a must. We sheathed the entire house in one day, once we got to it.
Saturday morning coffee on our 'upstairs' deck.
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