Almost Ready for Trusses

I did not post this week since Lorrie and Christopher were coming down this weekend and I wanted all the progress since they were here two weeks ago to be a surprise. So, I will catch everyone up with lots of pictures and I'll write captions below each one.

Where do they get these drivers? We had a second concrete truck run off the left side of the driveway and get stuck in the exact same place as the one last week. Since we had re-filled the hole back in, this one did not get buried quite as far and the second concrete truck was able to pull him out. All in all, we only lost 1/2 hour this time and did not have to call in the big tow truck.

This is a shot from above showing that most of the first floor of the house has been framed. Just a few small walls around the tubs once we bring them out, the stairs, etc to go.

Nice shot from above of pouring the concrete in the storgage area. We only have to pour the concrete for the front porch and the pad for the wood boiler and all the concrete will be done.

Just had to do it......

The trusses arrived on Wednesday, they were "very" wide, I was not sure once I saw them if they were going to make it up the driveway or not. But they did, the semi just couldn't make it up the hill so we had to offer some additional help.

It took all the dozer and truck had to get up the hill. Both started breaking loose at one point and I got worried. But they just backed up 20 feet and gave it another run and walked right up the hill.

The 2nd floor joists are all in place and this shot shows them wrapping up the sub-floor installation in the upstairs of the house.

The temporary set of steps going down from the storage area to the landing, with doors to the right into the garage, left into the automotive work area and straight outside.

The first upstairs wall. These are only 6 foot tall on the outside, then with the cathedral ceiling, the wall will rise to 14 feet in the center upstairs.

A shot from above of the first shop area wall. These walls are15 feet tall. From left to right, this is the window and garage door in the deer processing area, then the two windows in the wood working area.

And finally, a visitor yesterday morning came up the driveway, he was on the trail of 3 hens in front of him. It's almost turkey season here in Ohio.....