On August 7 we framed and raised our first wall but unless you knew that one of it's components was a 900 pound beam it may not seem as heroic as it actually was.
Brett and Vince engineered the nearly one ton metal sandwich on site. Vince, only half kidding, said that he and Brett could lift it into place by themselves and Brett, completely serious, said he'd rather not.
Anyway, it's a good thing that Vince isn't intimidated by things he's never done because the big machine we rented as our third person was scary. It's long excavation arm and Volkswagon sized bucket looked like it could do a lot of damage if someone accidently tapped a control the wrong way.
In my role as cheerleader and camera person I shot some of the most boring hd movie footage you'll ever see but in the end we had a header* that would support up to 12,000 pounds with only an eighth inch middle deflection. Miller time.
Then there was the I-beam hoist but since that only weighed 500 pounds it's hardly worth mentioning.
*a structural member above an opening that supports anything above the opening
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