Looks like you actually had the right number of ladders for this operation. A serious amount of work going on at once in some of those pictures.
Looks like you actually had the right number of ladders for this operation. A serious amount of work going on at once in some of those pictures.
When Matthew came thru were you far enough inland to dodge the storm surge?
How do you delegate with all of those people? It's the most difficult thing for me to do since I like to do it myself and others usually don't seem to have the same attention to detail.
In reply to 759NRNG:
The island property is on the water. The storm surge was up into the yard, but the house was never in any danger. It did take out a bunch of trees and make a general mess of things. We spent several months cleaning up debris.
In reply to jfryjfry:
I have a fairly smart family. If you point them in a general direction, they can usually get it done.
As far as how things get done, this is one of those situations where perfect is the enemy of good. It doesn't need to tell time, it doesn't need to hold water. Most of it is measured to within 1/4", there is at least one pole that is almost 2" out of line.
If you look closely in this picture, you can see the ratchet strap pulling the top plate in so the truss would land correctly.
It's a barn, good enough is just that, good enough.
Fascia on, bottom cord tie installed, diagonal bracing for the trusses installed, diagonal bracing for the posts installed, ridge cap installed, and gable end sheeting installed.
I'm calling this done until the weather cools off some. The plan is to enclose one bay for protected storage. That may happen this winter. I will come out in the next couple of weeks and paint the gable ends.
Fascia
Gable sheeting.
Good enough for me.
Add, 90' of 2 X 6 treated lumber to your list.
The total cash outlay ended up being right at $3K. At a guesstimate, the free lumber saved me around $1500.
Turned out nice. I've heard of edisto, never been there. Im pretty jealous of having property there though. Will the homestead be under the full eclipse next month?
Edisto will be on the southern edge of the eclipse path, probably a little too far south to get the total eclipse. Goose Creek, where I live, will get the full effect, and Moncks Corner, where my son live will be almost dead center.
Edisto is the large island between Seabrook Island and Beaufort.
bracing on just the corners....not the back row too?
In reply to 759NRNG:
Yes, diagonal bracing on the corners and in the roof. If the weather is bad enough to rip this down, this shed will be the least of my problems. My father managed to hit it with the backhoe yesterday, it's pretty damn strong.
Er I've pranged the house with my backhoe, but we won't go into that 
I'm pretty much with jfryjfry in that I tend to like to work alone and there are times when I refuse to get help when I should. I built a small floatiung dock over the past couple weekends and yesterday I needed to move it about 25' feet from where I built it under my deck to the seawall, then flip it over to attach the floats, then flip in back right side up and get it over the seawall and into the water.. I managed, but it was hard to do alone. I couldn't lift it from the ground, so I used a couple boards as levers and an 80# bag of quickcrete to get it up a couple feet on one side and from there I could get it up and over. Would've been a lot easier with a helper or two. The boat shed looks like it came out pretty nice. Good work.
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