This is the re-bar cutter that he uses...it's working great!
I'm rather losing track of which actual week we're on these days! Since Andrew's only able to get over to our land on a rather spasmodic basis, it's hard to know which counts toward what! Anyhow, progress is being made and this (above) is what it looked like a couple of weeks ago.
While my dad was still here, they rigged up a scaffold-type platform that could be hoisted up and held in place with ropes...
But now that it's just Andrew alone again, he decided to use his tree saddle and rope himself in.
And this is where we're at as of yesterday. The weekend is rainy, so more won't be accomplished until the latter part of next week most likely. We have ordered the OSB decking for the roof while Andrew's concocting a plan for milling out the rafters...as well as getting up the support poles, ridge pole, and rafters in place. This will prove to be a little tricky, but he's getting a pretty good idea of how he can get it all accomplished.
He strung rope up above along the lifting poles so that he could wear his tree saddle and just tie himself in. This gives him much more flexibility and safety.
And we're closing in on the walls. He got up 7 more logs in the past 2 days and we just have 4 more courses to go to finish the walls. Then it's on to the rafters!
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