Unique holiday week at the woods
Monday Nov 20th
Grant poured a foundation for our new storage building.
Tuesday Nov 21st
The knee wall was poured today.
Wednesday Nov 22nd
A really long day. Bob and Brad were off school. One quarter through the north path there was a large oak that was hit with lightening in December of 2016. They cut it down, drug it out to the sawmill and cut it into 6 X 6 beams that were 16 feet long. This was quite a project. The day ended rather late with a trip to Detroit to grab Cody from the airport and made it home by 1:30am thanksgiving morning.
THANKSGIVING DAY
Certainly untraditional. Jack, Dale, Bob, Cody and Brad headed for the woods in the morning. It was a chilly morning but they managed to get most of the upright beams in place. this involved getting them vertical, then setting angle formed in the shop earlier in the week at the bottom and drilling/screwing them into place.
They took a break at noon to go to the house where marsha and muff had prepared a big lunch, more than a typical lunch that is for sure. After getting way too warm and filled with tryptophan, they sluggishly returned to work until shortly after dark.
Friday Nov 24th
Quite an accomplishing day finishing putting the rest of the vertical beams up.
They began to put trusses up today. this involved the fork lift and one person on each end to weld them to plat on the top of the beams. this was a little trickier than anticipated! The trusses came from a building torn down at Central Soya in the late 1980's . Kelsey and Evan arrived today to provide fresh support. They worked until 1145, headed to CR 34 in time to fill a plate and park it in front of the TV for the OSU Michigan game and some time with the Wilson family. Everybody made it! Marsha left for Florida today.
A long day of setting more trusses. The last truss was not set as it was thought to be a little tricky to do in the dark. Brad thought welding in the dark, hanging out the side of the lift basket was a real rush. Everybody was pretty tired at the end of the day.
Saturday Nov 25th.
They began to put trusses up today. this involved the fork lift and one person on each end to weld them to plat on the top of the beams. this was a little trickier than anticipated! The trusses came from a building torn down at Central Soya in the late 1980's . Kelsey and Evan arrived today to provide fresh support. They worked until 1145, headed to CR 34 in time to fill a plate and park it in front of the TV for the OSU Michigan game and some time with the Wilson family. Everybody made it! Marsha left for Florida today. 
Jack remains behind where it is cold! He has been rather vocal that he is not enjoying the cold.
Sunday Nov 26th
A long day of setting more trusses. The last truss was not set as it was thought to be a little tricky to do in the dark. Brad thought welding in the dark, hanging out the side of the lift basket was a real rush. Everybody was pretty tired at the end of the day. 
Sunday afternoon we stopped for 20 min of picture taking. Brad later commented that, although this was not a popular break, it may have been a needed stress time out. Thanks Danielle !
Receiving treat for being most cooperative with pictures.
Monday Nov 27th
Back to reality today. Bob and Cody left early for Detroit airport. Bob returned to Penta for an in-service day. Cody had issues with his flight causing him to call for a pick up, Bob returned to Detroit to pick him back up. The best he could do was to book a flight for tomorrow. By evening they returned to the woods to set the final truss.
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