Hoisting the Beam Above & Beyond

It was a wonderfully sunny Wednesday afternoon when I arrived home to find the boys trying to figure out how to get the beam up from the first floor to the top of the support beams just freshly installed. We've re-configured the south wall windows to allow for this support beam.

Phil has borrowed scaffolding from a few different people in town & I think he's also rented a few extra pieces, just in case. So, with scaffolding at either end of the house, the beam somehow made it up to the level it is in the photo. Then it was all grunt work for the younger guys.......











Once they made it to the top of the scaffolding, they called it a day.......yes, they like to work hard, but if they can leave early, they will.....a bit frustrating.....