In the last episode, you saw us move the first roof bem into our cabin. In this episode, you get to see how we raise it! Our biggest struggle is – HOW do we get the material lifted onto the loft floor so it can help us raise the beam?? We figure that out with the help of a boom lift. Then it’s time to set the roof beam. This roof beam is actually the shorter and “lighter” of our two roof beams weighing between 400 and 450 lbs. We use a rented material lift to help us raise the roof beam. Then it’s time to move onto the second roof beam which is MUCH longer and heavier. Before we can do that, we have to set the front supporting column on the house. So we start that portion of the project. It takes some trial and error but we finally come up with the best method to raise the first half of the front column. And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on YouTube. We’re Sara and Ryan. We are your average suburban family, but 9 years ago, we purchased a raw piece of land in the Hood Canal in Washington. We’ve been developing this piece of property slowly, and this year we knew it was time to go all in. So we purchased a log cabin kit home and decided that 2020 would be the year we built a house on our property. We plan to build this cabin (as much as we can) on our own. Unfortunately, COVID-19 put a delay on our cabin kit being produced and delivered in the time frame we had originally planned. While we could have just waited it out and pushed back starting on the build of our home, we decided to shift gears and change our course for the time being. We purchased a 30 foot yurt, and will be setting it up as additional living space when we begin to build our cabin. In the summer of 2021, we FINALLY moved to the Hood Canal so we could start the build of our future home. While we are building our home, we are living in a camper trailer and the yurt that we built in the summer of 2020. We hope to have our cabin kit home built by the summer of 2022. Just my husband and I are building the house. We get help here and there from friends along the way and we do plan to get help on the roof but other than that we are doing it all on our own. Follow along with us as we build our dream in the Hood Canal.
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