Saturday, 24 Feb 2007 The west wall on the second floor of the new addition is about 45 feet long. It has a couple of sections that are shear walls, so there is extra wood. This wall is very heavy. We had built the wall, but we had not the strength to raise it up. Providentially (there are no coincidences), 2 weeks earlier Kevin Callaway and Mark McCormick had inquired if there would be a good weekend to have some guys from our Bible study come and do a ‘barn raising’. We were able to coordinate for this weekend. We got 3 or 4 smaller walls raised, as practice before it was time for ‘Big Bertha’
It had been estimated that we would need 10-12 guys to lift the wall into place. We had 7 there for the raising. Toby was pressed into service as well. Kevin, Mark, Doug Ribbens, Uncle Mark, Greg, Pop, Me and Toby all gave a giant ‘Heave Ho!’ and the wall was set in place. Who needs a dozen guys when we have the Carp homegroup guys around?
After lunch, Jeff Weinbender and Wayne Cassriel lent their muscles to the project. We spent the remainder of the day putting up the trusses on top of the new wall to support the tarps (it is the rainy season, after all) and spreading out the new tarps over those trusses. (Sorry, no pictures. The official project photographer was too busy playing with Christopher Cassriel.)We worked very long that day and got a lot done. Thank you everyone who helped make this weekend especially productive.