Day 49 – This week our excavator Matt completed his work on the backfill at the jobsite. This was Matt’s last task before he removes his equipment. The grading of the site turned out very well and if we would have got help from Mother Nature, the site would be mostly stable soil—except we still needed to wear the barn boots! Maybe the rains will go away in June. J
The best part is that we received our initial load of lumber from Cascade Lumber here on the island. Dave got the lumber organized on the driveway as the driver removed it from the truck and brought it up our driveway with their 3 wheeled lift. Various sizes of 2x, 4x, 6x, I-joists, CDX plywood; glulam beams, Douglas fir beams --- what we’ve been waiting to see.
Dave was able to get a lot of the basement framing completed. I helped by getting some of the larger glulam’s up and in place with our tractor. Sorry I do not have a picture of this; but I do have a photo from our barn raising where we did the same thing.
Next week, continue the basement framing: I-beams, west side framing, maybe some plywood flooring … it’s so nice to see lumber!!
Have a good week all.
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Back fill and view looking to the SW. Note: downspout drains and low voltage phone and Cable wire, mechanical room in the foreground; garage starts where the black tarp is; just to the left of the tarp is the stair locations to the main floor.
Tractor resting on the slab ... ground was soft.
Can you spot the garage door location? Note the trickle of water coming from the new foundation drain--this will be buried later.
Crawl space in the foreground interior framing in the background
How we installed the glulam's with the help of big blue (This is the shop bldg)
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