First of all, this is not my job. But the design and engineering are mine. The building is a shop/garage/apartment, 75′ x 45′ footprint, two stories for 1/3 of its plan, one story elsewhere. The apartment is in the upper story.
All ICF exterior walls for the first story, then wood frame up. Here is a view of the building, done in Sketchup.
The high roof is an 8:12 pitch, with a 42″ flatbottomed overhang. The main floor areas are divided into approximately 1/3 portions, separated by 8″ CMU walls, and the two “rooms” under the low-roofed parts made for perfect places to build the hip ends of the high roof, which could then be flown up top with the crane.
The first end was alread flown up and set. Doug’s crane can tell us the weight of the picks, and each end weighs about 4450 pounds. The second hip end is rigged and ready.
Up in the air.
And all set.
The site is in the northern Adirondack region of upstate NY, just outside Lake Placid, and looking to the SE, you see little Mt. Van Hoevenburg and the bobsled run on its western pitch.
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Cool! Looks like they're doing a nice job with your design.
Love that one shot - Hey, where's the roof? Oh, its in the shop...we're working on it! ahahahahah
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That's wild Gene! Thanks for the pics.
Was there any damage done to the fascia or shingles or drip edge where the straps wrapped?
How long did it take to rig it properly to get it to lift straight? Sometimes those things get tricky...it might be done first time or take a bit of time.
Wild pics though.
Jim, no damage occurred where the straps wrapped the roof edge. You can see in the photo how a buildup of 2x lumber pieces was spiked to the subfacia to act as a cushion. The finish goes on when the soffit finish gets done.
Too bad I didn't get a better pic of Doug's new truck crane. He got rid of his two older ones to get this, and the price tag was well over a third of a million bucks. A lot of nice features, the best one being the heated cab. Doug hoists year round, and it gets real cold here in winter. His other cranes had open controls.
Doug said that in his hoisting work, there is something new happening every day, and that this was the heaviest hipset he ever hoisted. The 5/8 OSB and shingling sure adds to the weight.
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I did notice the cribbing to push the straps out. I suspected that there was no damage or at least that was the goal.How long did it take to rig it? I've rigged difficult setups like that and sometimes it's tricky and timeconsuming. Sometimes it goes up on the first attempt with no time spent at all.
I love the picts!
Have to take a ride up your way, maybe this weekend.
Nice pictures Gene. Thanks for posting that. Sure seems like a slick way to do it.