Dan's Workshop: Carport
It’s been awhile since I gave you an update on Dan’s workshop. In the last one, I showed you how Dan added the girders to the main structure.
| So here’s the workshop with our home-milled lumber in front of that, and the carport slab under the lumber. |
His next step was to frame out the attached carport.
| For the piers, Dan used pre-fabbed ones leftover from another project, rather than making his own. |
Three posts and a beam were needed to support the roof. The beam was 17.5 feet, about the length of the carport. Even though the timbers had been curing for about a year, it was still very heavy. Here’s how he moved it one-man fashion.
| Using a strap and two short logs. You can see two of the carport posts on the ground at the right. |
| Close-up. As the beam is moved the logs must be repositioned. |
He attached the posts to the beam on the ground.
But the kneebraces pushed the posts farther apart than the piers were set. So Dan used the ratchet and strap pull them together and added some weight in hopes of correcting that problem.
The following weekend we were ready to raise the bent. First a final inspection.
He used the tractor the same way he raised the other bents.
To make sure it didn’t move around too much on us when we got it on the piers, he first paced a slice of a 4×4 in the center of each of the piers.
In the center of those blocks he sank a piece of rebar (missed photos for that one), and then measured and drilled a hole in the bottom of each of the posts. Happily the posts slipped easily into place.
| With flashing, because the posts are untreated |
And here it is.
The last step was to remove the straps and brace the bent. Roof is next!
Source: http://www.5acresandadream.com/2017/06/dans-workshop-carport.html
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