We finally got two warm days without rain, and were thus able to get the cottage roof headers connected to each other and to the surrounding structure. Welding and plasma cutting both require a ground connected to the metal being welded; since it’s a pain to have to keep moving he ground clamp around, it’s helpful to avoid “orphan” structural members, such as the roof headers were prior to making these connections. But now the header on the northwest cottage (which is the one I’m standing on in this picture) is connected to the larger structure over the new bathroom (not visible in this picture), and also to the beam that forms the roof peak (center of the picture); that let me weld the connection between the headers (lower left, under the apple branch I have since pruned off) and the beam connecting the southeast cottage to the structure atop the shop. Later on, we also welded a beam from the peak of the second cottage to the structure over the central post. The rain hasn’t yet stopped; it has appeared every day this week. However, it’s mostly been in the morning, leaving the afternoons clear; you’ll see what we did after this next week!
Annex 64
April 29, 2022 by Maggie McNeill
Great picture, I see the pony talking to Cicero. Probably something like this “ Hey Cic… Aunty Maggie’s up on the roof again and she nearly done with the flaming snake and sparkling dragon. You gotta go look at it! See if it will do and give it your grunt of approval. Or hoof stomp whichever, regardless the sooner this gets done the sooner we get our new chateau! So grunt more and whine for our new digs while you scarf your peanut breakfast. The sooner its finished the sooner we get our new digs understand and comfy room to sleep and lounge on crisp nights.” 😄