On Thurs. Sept. 4th Lester hauled the roof insulation to the site. We also had the roof rafters and the car decking for the ceiling and the tin for the roof delivered that day.

The insulation we used was P2000. We put two layers of 1" thick 4x8 sheets on. That gave us an R54 rating. 

We bought the rafters from Kuhn Brothers Lumber. They were 24' long, white pine, rough sawn, kiln dried 4x12 rafters.   

For our ceiling we will use yellow pine, 2x8 tongue and groove car decking.

Lester was not sure if he wanted to tackle the roof by himself or get some help. We wanted to have it under roof before the winter weather arrived.  Since we are getting busy at the stove shop it is more difficult for Lester to get time off to work on the cabin. So Lester got an amish crew from our area to do the roof.

Monday morning Sept. 8th., Lester met them at our land and they started putting on the rafters. Tues. morn. it was raining so they all headed home. 

Weds. through Friday they went back up again but Lester was not able to go along. 

They finished the roof on Friday in the rain.  I know I would not want to be on a metal roof while it was raining.

Lester rented a crane and a man lift to put up the remaining 2 rpsl's and the ridge pole. He also used the crane to put in the top girder since they were coming out anyways.  We measured and remeasured the ridge pole support logs and the ridge pole but the center pole was a little short so Lester had to saw some off the top of the back rpsl to make everything fit in place. 

Now we will have to wait a month to get our rough sawn rafters to start on the roof. We may have to sub-contract that out because we are getting into our busy season at the shop and Lester cannot take off as much. We would like to have the cabin under roof before the snow starts falling.   

Lester & I and our 3 youngest children were working on our cabin the first week-end in August. 

We put in our first girder - it takes a lot of time to measure and remeasure before cutting the holes, on the sides of the cabin, to put the girder in.  Once the holes are cut there is no changing your mind.  We used the telescopic forklift on the one side and pushed the log through partway, with the skid loader, on the other side. It went pretty smoothly. 

Then we decided to try and get another one of the ridge pole support logs (rpsl) in, by pulling it through the basement door, but we ran out of room. So Lester went to Williamsport to a crane service company and scheduled them  to come out next Thurs. to put up the 2 remaining rpsl's and the ridge pole.  

We decided to trim the remaining rpsl's to the correct height (hopefully). Then Lester trusted me to lift him on the telescopic fork lift so he could cut the rpsl that is up, to the correct height. I also lifted him to make the two holes for the 2nd. girder. Too bad we are finished lifting logs - I kinda enjoyed operating the lift.  

 Lester & I went up Thurs. July 10 and came home Sat. eve. I cut rebar and he put the logs up by himself. We were thinking we could possibly stop at the 18th layer but it was not high enough so we decided to put up 20 layers. Les put up 13 logs by himself so we have 3 more logs to go and then we need to put up the remaining 2 rpsl's and the ridge pole.  That is going to require some bigger equipment.  I was trying different methods of cleaning the logs on an extra log we had, but did not decide how we are going to clean the rest of the logs.