Instant roof...sorta

[Percy]

Things have slowed sown some with the colder weather...so its been a great time to make additions/modifications yadda. Whenever there is a gap in orders, we start building....Increased the size of the sharpening/tool shack by double on the ground floor and added a room upstairs with a deck to cover firewood. Roof was 18 feet up and uncomfortable to work on that high. Its been done many times before but a first for me, we built the whole roof on the mill floor nice and low, then lifted the whole thing up with the hoe. Was quick and fun!

 

 

December 16, 2021 - YouTube

[Southside]

Yea, but you needed that custom engineered spreader bar to pick it up with.  :D Good job! 

[Percy]

Yea, but you needed that custom engineered spreader bar to pick it up with.  :D Good job!

🤣🤣we built the truss's from our lumber and added a couple 2x6x20 full length so the ends were sticking out. Theses were attached to every truss king post. Custom spreader was a 22 foot Sitka spruce about 17 inches in diameter. 

[Ljohnsaw]

Yeah!  Everyone has a spare trackhoe to use! :D  I like the OSHA approve man lift ;)  Pretty cool idea.

[Stephen1]

Sometimes there are easy ways do something. Looks good.

[Peter Drouin]

 

[PAmizerman]

Your as bad as me😂 
Just can't resist adding more dry space.

[beenthere]

Percy
Reminds me of member @lyle niemi , another Canadian who flew a roof that he pre-built on the ground. 

Another very enterprising man building a circular sawmill that he could run himself. 

https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=166301

[Percy]

Yeah!  Everyone has a spare trackhoe to use! :D  I like the OSHA approve man lift ;)  Pretty cool idea.

Yes the track hoe was invaluable on this project. Its not our hoe. We rent it. Found a contractor that had too much idle equipment and short on storage space. We pay for the machine rental on an hourly basis off the hour meter. We are liable for any damage. Its a good deal for both of us. Have had several different hoes here on the same program over the years and have been without often. This one is a monster. When determining how high it could lift the roof, we measured  over 40 feet when in a "highest position" tip of bucket to ground.
Ya, the "man lift" is sketchy

[Southside]

For years my man lift was "Grab the good pallet", which often was met with "the good pallet has stuff on it", found an actual man basket on a scratch and dent sale. That makes it nice!

I think my favorite part of the video is the fine adjustments made with the telehandler and the hoe. "Just give it a push, oops too much, ahh, just right!" That had me laughing! 

[Magicman]

If'en it ain't wrong, it's gotta be right and that is alright !! 

[aigheadish]

I'm with Southside. The little "tap tap" here, then "tap tap" there were great! 

Good work!

[Percy]

For years my man lift was "Grab the good pallet", which often was met with "the good pallet has stuff on it", found an actual man basket on a scratch and dent sale. That makes it nice!

I think my favorite part of the video is the fine adjustments made with the telehandler and the hoe. "Just give it a push, oops too much, ahh, just right!" That had me laughing!

In hind sight, if I ever do this again, I will attach strategically placed temporary guides on the roof so as you drop it into place, it automatically locates itself properly. Dont know why I didnt think of it..I need you and Mike B around when I do this stuf...

[maple flats]

A much smaller excavator, but that's how I built a shooting house deer blind. I set up right next to my sawmill, got out my battery powered circular saw and ran an air hose to run a staple gun. I then sawed some poplar @ 5/8" thick and some 2x6's to frame a floor. I then built a 5' x 5' platform, attached some 1x's I had for flooring. From there I built each side as a separate component. Using the thin sawn poplar as vertical siding. I put a window opening on 3 sides and a door on the 4th with a 12" x 18" shooting window in the door. Each of the other 3 sides has a 30" x 24"H opening with a hinged door covering it. I then put a cross timber (3x6 hemlock) thru 2 opposite window openings, ran straps from my excavator bucket to each side, and lifted the whole thing and carried it into the woods where I then set it on 4  8x8x16 concrete blocks as a footer. I then built the roof, carried it out, complete with steel roofing, set it on the blind and attached it at each corner. I've hunted out of that for about 12 yrs, gotten plenty of deer from it.
I would have attached the roof earlier, but then my little excavator wouldn't have been able to carry it because of the height, as it was I had to go slow carrying the blind because un-even ground kept catching a corner of the blind. On level ground I could only get it about 12" off the ground and driving in the woods the undulating ground was a challenge.

[terrifictimbersllc]

 

 
20,000 lb cupola, 350 ton crane. Last june in Appleton, WI. The crane and five flatbeds of counterweights (about 120 tons) came in earlier in the week.

[kelLOGg]

Percy,
It surely was well balanced 8)

[Crossroads]

Well done!

[Resonator]

Commonly done on commercial construction jobs to build sections on the ground and lift them, the key is to have enough counterweight. The crane is strongest when the load is right next to the machine, when you have to reach out and lift is when it gets sketchy.