by KCStudly » Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:16 pm
Okay, I am on an "official delay" at the moment, so at least this past weekend and into this week I can't be considered as slacking.
Karl asked me to help put ship lap planking up on the ceiling of the shop. He is motivated by the immanent arrival of his new CNC lathe and wants to finally get the bare insulation closed in while the shop is in transition. Both of the smaller lathes and the old air compressor have already been sold and are gone, the "new" (bigger quieter) replacement compressor has been moved in under the stairs, and Karl wants to get the ceiling done while we can still shuffle most everything else around; before the new lathe is set in place and the technician comes to certify the install (or whatever it is that they do when they commission a new piece of equipment).
So we dragged the miter saw down the stairs, set it up strategically out front with the big stack of lumber (a full bundle of random 1x10's at 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 ft lengths); had to use the fork truck to move the bundle from where the delivery truck dropped it. Karl borrowed a scissor lift from one of his collaborators (thank goodness, we would not attempt this job w/o one). Believe it or not he was able to move the scissor lift in the bed of his new 3500 Ram, using the fork lift and long fork extensions to lift it out, all within the rated capacities of both pieces of equipment (ask Karl what the capacity is on any equipment and his standard reply is usually, "virtually unlimited", but this time he was legit).
The first day, Saturday, it was kind of slow going as we found what worked and what didn't, getting through the learning curve. We kept joking that if we had been "real" carpenters we would have been fired already, or never even gotten hired. The basic strategy was for me to cull lengths off of the pile while Karl stayed up in the lift and nailed them up. For the longer boards we would try to pre-cut a few more lengths so that when I got up with him to handle the longer ones we could get a few more than just one done. We got the first bay to the left of the shipping hatch done with the light fixture converted to LED's
On Sunday we made better time getting the side to the right of the shipping hatch done and about half of the next full bay. We found that it was actually more efficient to break the longer boards down so that Karl could handle them by himself, which kept the work flow going better. We had a little less yield that way, but are still getting pretty good use out of them without much drop.
So I will probably be helping with that all through the rest of this week (evenings) and into next weekend.
I'll get a pic or two if anyone cares to see.
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KCStudly on Thu Oct 26, 2017 2:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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