A visit from FirstDay

Last night, we bought a scaffold from a gentleman in Voorheesville. He is a retired roofer who needed to clean out his garage. We bought 8 Safway frames with bracing, feet, jack legs, connectors, half frames, a well wheel and arms, a dozen 13 foot planks and a handful of 6 foot planks and outriggers. It also came with a set of 4 ladder hooks for putting planks across ladders. He kept it all garaged when not in use, and we got it at a very reasonable price. He even said he could deliver it all to the site for us!

I took a half day today. Our scaffold was being delivered and David Howard was coming to visit us on site as we started the rafters. He wanted to come see how things were going, especially since ours is the first Canadian being built. While we worked on getting the first post and rafter built, David checked out the house so far, taking some notes and photos.


He helped us to plumb the post and raise the rafter into place on the collar tie and the post. Being as this hadn't been done before, we were all unsure of the exact logistics. After a period of deep thought and standing around, we decided to just give it a try and see how it went. We were able to get the rafter up and secured into place before David had to go. We kept going for a while and got another set of post and rafter started before calling it a day.