Front entrance grows
Some notches, some giant screws, a lot of grunting, and the front entrance begins to take shape.
Front-back deck
Directions aside, this was the start to the long process of building the back deck. On the front.
Weighty work
Moving these around would have been a lot more difficult without the little tractor that could.
Loader’up
The payloader stayed on property most of the summer, and came in handy nearly every day.
Angles
What’s 45* times a million? Hopefully they all just line up somehow. The retaining wall that wasn’t in the original plans does make for a convenient place to add a couple deck posts and shorten up joist requirements, however.
Log jam
When you have to lift a 22 foot long 14×8″ timber by yourself, you have to get creative. And balance-y.
Because our timber posts are oversized, ranging from 8×8 to 12×12″, we are using some threaded anchors with j’s plunged into the concrete sonotubes as opposed to premade collars.
The post with the most (weight)
This 10×10″ timber post is pretty important, carrying a lot of the weight of beams and even a lot of the roof structure. Here it is in its early construction.