Progress You Can See
It finally happened!
With help from our friends at Interior Ready-Mix, we moved the larch 6x8s to the site.
We're going to use them as a ring beam to join the walls together at the top (kind of an aerial foundation).
Some of those suckers weigh 200 lbs! It' s really going to be something to hoist them atop our 8 ft walls, drill them, mark the top of wall, move the larch out of the way, drill into the puddled earth cap, pound a concrete anchor into the hole, repeat as necessary, replace the larch and set the anchor bolts in the hole! Did I mention 200 lbs? Did I mention 8ft in the air? What an excellent plan!
It was fun to discover we can now drive a one ton flat bed all the way to our bathroom. In the event that one of us becomes so morbidly obese that we'll have to be hoisted out the window in an emergency, rescue personnel will have no trouble at all.
Now that's good design....
With help from our friends at Interior Ready-Mix, we moved the larch 6x8s to the site.
We're going to use them as a ring beam to join the walls together at the top (kind of an aerial foundation).
Some of those suckers weigh 200 lbs! It' s really going to be something to hoist them atop our 8 ft walls, drill them, mark the top of wall, move the larch out of the way, drill into the puddled earth cap, pound a concrete anchor into the hole, repeat as necessary, replace the larch and set the anchor bolts in the hole! Did I mention 200 lbs? Did I mention 8ft in the air? What an excellent plan!
It was fun to discover we can now drive a one ton flat bed all the way to our bathroom. In the event that one of us becomes so morbidly obese that we'll have to be hoisted out the window in an emergency, rescue personnel will have no trouble at all.
Now that's good design....
posted by Rammed Earth at 5:37 PM
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