Dan G
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I have a good one for this thread. It's a little long, but pretty entertaining.
About 7 years ago(before my time with the company, I was there to fix it afterwards) we built this log house out of green white pine 24 inches being the smallest top. Big trees. Anyway, this house had a huge front deck that was held up by three white pine posts holding up a log about 35 feet long acting as the horizontal support. There was no roof over the deck, and over the course of these past seven years, that damned tree rotted through and exploded. Thank God it didn't collapse, and the owner was able to get a support under it before it did.
Anyway, we had to find a log that fit the same way the old one did, and we had to try to cut the old one out a little at a time, all the while placing supports to keep the deck up. Then we had to shoe horn the new log into place, without knocking our supports over. We had a crane tied to one end, and a bobcat tied to the other, and me guiding and watching, giving hand signals and gentle nudges.
We're not exactly known for being OSHA approved. Then again, it is North Idaho.lol
About 7 years ago(before my time with the company, I was there to fix it afterwards) we built this log house out of green white pine 24 inches being the smallest top. Big trees. Anyway, this house had a huge front deck that was held up by three white pine posts holding up a log about 35 feet long acting as the horizontal support. There was no roof over the deck, and over the course of these past seven years, that damned tree rotted through and exploded. Thank God it didn't collapse, and the owner was able to get a support under it before it did.
Anyway, we had to find a log that fit the same way the old one did, and we had to try to cut the old one out a little at a time, all the while placing supports to keep the deck up. Then we had to shoe horn the new log into place, without knocking our supports over. We had a crane tied to one end, and a bobcat tied to the other, and me guiding and watching, giving hand signals and gentle nudges.
We're not exactly known for being OSHA approved. Then again, it is North Idaho.lol