And we did it the hard way
Aug 31, 2018 10:11:45 #
Our neighbor's house under construction this morning. During my HS & college vacations back in the sixties, I worked as a rough-in carpenter. We put roofs on stick-by-stick. When my brother & I built my house in the eighties, we used trusses but brought them up with ropes by hand. Today's wussies need a crane, lol. But it sure saves time and even the end trusses are pre-sheated which is both smart and a safe way to do it. Target date for completion is sometime in October.
Aug 31, 2018 10:48:17 #
Prefabricated lumber is the way to go, looks like your neighbors house is coming along nicely.
Aug 31, 2018 15:08:20 #
The Marines outdid this technique. They 3D printed a concrete barracks in 40 hours.
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Aug 31, 2018 20:02:44 #
Thanks for visiting Ched and Robert.
Robert, do you have a source for that article...sounds interesting.
Robert, do you have a source for that article...sounds interesting.
Aug 31, 2018 20:24:34 #
Photog8 wrote:
Thanks for visiting Ched and Robert.
Robert, do you have a source for that article...sounds interesting.
Robert, do you have a source for that article...sounds interesting.
Apparently it was an experiment and the test building was 500 square feet. Three takes on it:
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/08/29/marines-3d-print-concrete-barracks-in-just-40-hours.html
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/08/30/no-sandbags-needed-marines-3d-print-a-barracks-room-in-40-hours/
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/the-marines-3d-printed-a-concrete-barracks/ar-BBMFTrn?li=AA4Zor
Aug 31, 2018 23:51:57 #
Sep 1, 2018 07:09:23 #
itsnoelb
Loc: Edgewater, FL. Originally: FLINT. MI.
Photog8 wrote:
Our neighbor's house under construction this morning. During my HS & college vacations back in the sixties, I worked as a rough-in carpenter. We put roofs on stick-by-stick. When my brother & I built my house in the eighties, we used trusses but brought them up with ropes by hand. Today's wussies need a crane, lol. But it sure saves time and even the end trusses are pre-sheated which is both smart and a safe way to do it. Target date for completion is sometime in October.
Done lots of this myself. We pre-sheeted our gable ends when we used a crane. Real time saver, and safer.
Early this summer, a buddy called me to help set an engineered roof on a 4500 sq. ft. home. We set 15, yes, 15 25 foot half trusses, in 1 lift. Braced well and on 24" centers. Talk about time savings.
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Sep 1, 2018 22:46:51 #
Thanks for visiting, Noel. Saved time is money in the contractor's pocket. My neighbor's trusses went up in about 2 hours. In the "old days" it would've taken all day. Nobody got knocked off the roof, so it was a job well done. 
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