tinker’s wagon

(this was supposed to go up like a month ago & randomly failed, idek) I THOUGHT I’d taken more pics while tucking in the tarp along the side, & here they are.

One thing I was VERY careful to do when I put the plywood on the roof was NOT to put screws right at the edge of each rafter. I had a Plan. (This one worked.)

So the rafters do a GREAT job of holding up the roof, except for along the edges because there’s no rafter there, but that’s where the top of the walls hold up the roof, except they don’t extend past the end walls, & what I’m babbling about here is the part where the corners of

Above: the problem! Below: the solution!

but she’s READY posting unlocked because everyone gets to see this, real time not gonna do any more construction posts til after I get home, because I am p00ped but she GOES she rides SO SMOOTH, brakes cleanly with no wobbling. i took her over a cattle grate at 60 & she shook … a

Hey Siliconshaman LOOK I remembered to mark the edges before I took the hinges off! (for which i MOST PROFOUNDLY thank you)

I wasn’t feeling up to working on the roof today & everything’s still wet from the snow yesterday anyway, so it was a wall day. & I was kicking ass until I ran out of screws. Still, it’s more wall done, a bit closer to being able to put in the door. I’ll take it.

Above is a picture of the side of the roof I wanted to get housewrap over today! Note that there is a tarp over it! Which I did NOT want to take all the way back off, because bugger that for a lark!

Because of the rafters, I needed more than sixteen feet of roof. To be precise, as seen above, I needed sixteen feet & 20.5 inches of roof, so that’s what I cut. That piece went on the back section of the roof, & the rest of that sheet of plywood went along the side, which

But first, a break to demolish some pallets, first, cos the wood will want a couple days to dry before I start putting it on the wall.