19,6,2012

today we finished off the last off the purlins around the house. we had to start putting the purlins in at the  bottom instead of the top of the studs on each 7.2m side of the house because the ridge of the roof was not straight on these sides. so same again the purlins were put in on a chork line that was marked for each purlin at 715mm from top to top of each purlin. we staggerd the longer purlins so they were not all nailed into the same studs so they wouldnt have to much stress. the nail patern was a nail at the top and bottom of the width of the purlin into the studs to leave room for the bolts that go in the midle of the two nails. today we used hand tools, hand saw, radial arm saw, chork line, ect.

18,6,12

today me regan and jesse were straightening up the purlins that were naild off incorrectly. they were incorrect because the meshys were spose to be 715 mm between the bottom of the purlin above to the bottom of the purlins below. we began straightening them up by running our eyes along and finding the bows in the purlins. once we found were the bows were we messured and moved up or down and renaild to the 715mm. we found that we needed to saw 10mm off almost every end to get them straight and correct.
today we used the drop saw, hand saw, hand tools, chork line and 4inch nails.

chisel

today i finished off my hand tools exercise. we had a plan that had different types of joints on each end and the finished product had to have a square in the middle that was 300 mm on all for sides.
after i finished that i joined the other people on the house and finished nailling off all the hip raffters.