MOVING a 450 LB. Ridge Beam by HAND // Couple Builds Own House - Ep. 45
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- We are preparing to raise our first ridge beam that will run from our back log wall to our middle column. This means we need to complete our back log wall of our log cabin kit home. Then we need to make sure the middle column and the back log wall are the same height so the ridge beam will be level. This means that Ryan has to climb to some major heights to cut down the column.
Lastly, we have to move the ridge beam into our log cabin and get it up to our loft floor. This is NO easy feat because the ridge beam is around 450 lbs. We have to get creative on how to move this ridge beam into the house site without any equipment.
And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on TH-cam. 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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Good morning Ryan and Sarah. Hopefully you are having a great weekend. Hopefully we will have a great day work. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🙏🙏
As long as there is progress being made I'm happy. Thanks for watching my friend.
nice jobs is heavy stuff
Oh how we remember setting the beams in our build. Good times!
It’s been scary but also one of the most monumental achievements.
wow!! Kudos to both of you - I know it's a lot of work but you guys are doing it and the end result is going to be so COOL!
Girl you explain so well on building a house,every step you explain wonderful, God go with you guys as you work to finish your beautiful home 👍
W.O.W! That is one huge piece of wood. Amazing team work guys.
Thanks Nicki. Now to get it set on the columns. Hopefully that goes just as smoothly.
Sarah and Ryan considering all the speed humps being put in your way you are still powering along! The cabin is looking good! So much work done! Progress is progress no matter the speed! As long as you keep going forward that’s all that matters! One step one nail one beam at a time!! Awesome guys!! I admire you both!
Thank you fir the words of encouragement .
You’re very welcome!! I know how hard it is to keep going at times! But you guys are really knocking it out of the park!! You should be so proud of yourselves!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I was so nervous I had to forward a little of it. Sketchy is right girlfriend 👏👏👏👏
Throughout this process we were all feeling pretty confident. Getting the beam into the house by hand was probably the hardest part of the whole thing.
@@OneFootOfftheGrid I still love the videos just makes me nervous 😂
disassemble the support arm of the lift , place the lift in the middle weer the team sound be and reassemble the support arm on the lift so that you het the team high enough with the lift
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Looking great you guys!
Thank you Amy!
Man if you could get that lift up there🤞😬here's hoping🙏✌
Yes! Getting the lift up there is key, otherwise hiring a crane I think is the next option. We tried building a ramp to get it up there but it was just too heavy.
you only needed to measure off the floor to cut the beam post
The sub floor was in the way. We wanted to triple check things do the string line and laser were redundant sanity checks.
I would just get everything set up and bring a crane in.
We thought about it. The cost would have been more and we would be less involved in the project. It was our next option though if we couldn’t figure it out with the lifts.
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Ryan the sawing above your head on the ladder looks TERRIFYING!!!!
LOL. It was definitely one of my least favorite parts of this build process.
Is this going to be a shed or a house, so thin these walls!
There will be 2 1/4” of solid foam insulation against the inside wall.
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Courious what is the R factor on those log walls. Are you insulating the outside or Inside ?
Not sure on the log walls but we are adding 1.5” of foam board to the interior walls.
Wood is about R-1.2 per inch
cmon lift that beam already
Ryan sawing off the top of that beam was honestly the sketchiest crap I've seen you guys do so far. There must be a better way. I wonder why it couldn't have been cut prior to erecting it? Was it just not possible to get an accurate dimension?