i've got my rafters
up on the sawhorses here these are all
set in order
in which uh i'll set them on the
building i just stack them up here in
pairs
and i'll just be able to come to the
next set that's on the horses
and that will be the next set that
actually goes on the building
and i've got more down here all paired
up and ready to go
i don't know that i'll get them all up
today i'll get some of them up
see i've got the first set of rafters up
these the barge rafters
and i knew that this set would be the
hardest pair to set
but i got them up there and they're
bolted down we'll go up there and have a
look
i was going to show you how i actually
plumb
these barges it's a pretty much a poor
boy set up
but it works really well i learned this
from my
log building buddies where we hung we
hung a string
right at the peak and put a weight on
the end of it
and in this case it's just an empty jug
of uh
bar oil that i put some water in to give
it some weight and i have another string
across the bottom on the outside it's
attached to the outside of the
rafters down at the bottom just above
the plate and i can lean
the pair of rafters in and when that
string that's hanging
vertically tied to the weight just
touches the cross string
then i know that i've got this set of
barge rafters plum
and then i can just put a a brace on it
as i've got here extrude it to the top
of the rafter
and down to the plate just out of the
way of where i'll set the gable rafters
i couldn't get my hoist out there far
enough
i couldn't come all the way up to the d
wall
this is as far as i could get with the
hoist i've got a board
screwed to the floor there to keep it
from rolling too far
i had to have an area to be able to
climb up and down and these uh temporary
floorboards are just cantilevered out
and i didn't they're putting more weight
on it more than what i weighed
but i was able to get it up here and i
just set it on top of
d wall and i set it on top of these
blocks here
i screwed them down to the plate and i
was just able to slide it just a little
bit of it
at a time across there too i could get
it out
and i kept the hoist strap to it even
though i had to keep letting cable out
so that i could keep it perpendicular i
was able to slide it out and just set it
off the end of that block
and set it right on its its layout and
bolted it down
but i've got it up there and it's i've
got the
the anchor bolt in it and i don't think
you could pull it off
it's there got my peg in the piece half
lap
i've got the gable rafter set up here
for
the d wall and i've got a 2x4
with a layout on it at 12 feet and that
just lines up with the
with the uh outside edge of the seat cut
and i've got it screwed on there good
and as i raise this
pick it up with the hoist that'll keep
the rafter spread apart
still on the 12 foot width of the
building up here at the peak
i've got the rafter set i've got the the
half lap
i've actually got one screw here
and another one right here just to hold
it there until i get
finished with it and i've put a clamp on
it top and bottom
and since i'm kind of downhill with
everything i had to put some wedges
under my
one rafter here to hold it up and i
clamped it together
and i'll put another screw in right here
and right here then i can take the clamp
off and i can drill for the
peg that i'll put in there i'm using
inch and a quarter
oak pegs the layout for the peg i'm just
going to measure from the very peak
to the underneath sides of the rafters
there
where they join together and i have
eight and five-eighths
so i'm going to mark that at 4 and 5
16. make sure i've got that right yep
make a little starter hole so i don't
slip
i'm using a double spur bit it's getting
harder to find those around here
i think i actually found this one in
pennsylvania but i'm gonna
do the same little trick
to keep this going square in
i'm gonna just get it started
and i'm holding my speed square up there
make sure i'm in line that way
in line that way check this again
okay
that's off just a little bitty bit but i
don't think it's going to matter too
much
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now i don't want that to punch out on
the other side and
leave a frazzled hole so i'm going to
get another bit
another inch and a quarter spade bit
come in from the underneath side
just to finish that up give it a clean
hole
all the way i have my pegs cut
well actually i've cut two pegs here
uh this one will be for a a different
pair
it's a little bit longer and it will go
through
and i like to let it set up or stick out
on either side about 5 8
of an inch and i like to do a little
detail i'm not sure how well this is
going to show up
i like to take my utility knife and just
kind of cut a little facet in there
and for some reason i've caught on to
just doing a star just a five point star
now since this is a gable pair and these
rafters actually will be completely
covered up
if i let that use a peg like this
on this gable i would end up having to
cut that off
so i went ahead and just cut one that's
short and i
kind of chamfered the end of it a little
bit to make it a little easier to drive
and what i've done i've coated these
with anchor seal
that seems to lubricate it just a little
bit makes it a little bit easier to
drive let's see how well this thing goes
in
let's finish this up with my hammer here
yeah that'll hold that together now i'll
go ahead and put another screw in
between these two here and the two on
the ends
i've learned a lesson uh i went ahead
and put the one in the center in
and then when i drilled this hole here i
would hit my screw and i'd have to stop
and sharpen my bits so
i've learned to just put one on either
side and then come back and put this one
in
i'm just going to share this with you
what we now commonly call a peg
from what i have read in my i think it
was in my roy underhill books i've got
all of the books that he's written that
these originally were called a tunnel
and i think that uh is a derivative of
tree now
and there were people that this was
their business they made these they
turned them on a lathe
probably a foot powered spring pole
lathe of some sort and they would take
their turn lays into the woods
and they would make these and these
people that did this were called a
trundler
now i'm not a trundler but i've made
quite a few of these where i couldn't
get the size that i needed
and i've had to actually turn them out
on a turning lathe because i wasn't that
fast at it
in raising these rafter pairs i know
that
that i can't strap really where i want
to
to be able to pick them up uh with the
extra two feet
on the the overhang there's two feet of
height
and my hoist is not tall enough to pick
that
up over that and i had designed my hoist
so that i could actually pick these up
and still be able to
at the peak of it go underneath the
underneath side of the rafters where
they joined together
so i'm doing the best that i can i came
down
four feet from the underneath side
of the rafters and i screwed this block
on i've got my strap set on the lower
side of it in a bite
on both sides and got my hoist hooked to
it
now i know when i get up there i get it
up there
nearly to the top i'll have to pick up
this end that will set
actually over on seawall i'll have to
pick it up over the top of the plate
it's not heavy because it'll
teeter-totter
uh real easy so it's not like i'm
picking up a lot of weight to do that
but here we go let's see if we can get
it up there
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while i still have my 2x4 screwed on
there
it's still strapped to the hoist i'm
going to go ahead
and drill and anchor this with my leg
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bolts
yes
i'm using a ratchet socket i don't want
to
depend on that impact driver to
do the last little bit of torque
i'm actually holding this pair of
rafters the gable wrappers
an inch in from the outside
of the building i'm going to be using uh
one inch in thickness of a styrofoam
insulation board on the outside of the
gable when i frame it in
and then when i put the siding on i'll
let it go down
over the outside edge of top half log
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now i can take this uh two before off
that i had on there as a spreader
take my straps down and go for another
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one
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do
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me
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i've got one peg left and i need three
so what i'm going to go ahead and do is
just drill
for the peg holes i can put the pegs in
after i get it up
but i'm going to go ahead and put the
other screw in the middle
between the two and then i'll put a
clamp a couple blocks and a clamp on it
so that i can raise it i think that'll
hold it together and i'll have to set
two pairs
without the peg but i'll i'll have the
whole drill and after i get some more
pegs i'll
i'll be able to put them in so i'm just
going to save this peg back
because i'm going to use it on the barge
it'd be a little bit difficult to get up
there
and drive a peg in on the barge since it
is out from
the wall i wouldn't have just a whole
lot to stand on there
i'll have to remember to take that screw
and this one over here that you can't
see
out because it's right where the peg
would go
but i'll put a clamp back on there and
that should hold together while i raise
it
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i'm going to put the traditional
evergreen valve
i always put these on the last pair of
rafters
that i set and there's a lot of stories
that i've heard about doing this
it's kind of a neat tradition
and i think the reasons vary
from location to location
i've heard one story that
you took something from the woods from
the forest
and you built something out of it that
could be
what it really stands for this actually
came off of a tree
that my daughter planted so it's pretty
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special
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having the rafters up seems to change
the whole
perspective of the size it's just one of
those things that
that happens it makes it feel so much
bigger
we'll go down and get a view from down
there
this is one of my favorite views of the
cabin after the rafters are up as i
mentioned earlier it gives it a little
bit different
perspective the size even seems to
change i know it's got some height
to it there will be a wrap around porch
that will go from b wall all the way
across the front
and then around on the d wall side
there'll be three sides to the porch
and that will lower the looks
of the height it seems awful tall right
now but when the porch is on and the
roof is on the porch
it seems to change the whole thing and
it brings it back into
uh what is really nice to look at as far
as the
size of everything and the height of
everything
now there's been some comments on in
past videos of
the height of the piers but i've got it
up high enough to where i can
store things under there i can actually
i want to build a rack under there
where i can put some fresh sawn lumber
under there and air dry it
and be out of the sun and kind of cool
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