The Walls Go Up

With all the excellent help we had over our icy Thanksgiving,  we made great progress on framing the south wall. This was the most challenging wall, with lots of windows.


Because of the work done on the rainy weekend, the next weekend made lots of visible progress. The other side of the family came, and we put up the walls that we had made in the snow. Here is the first wall:


One corner, neat and square:



We put together some other walls, and kept putting them up.

This is the window in the loft "bump-out" that extends beyond the back of the trailer:


And another couple walls:


Once the walls were up, we needed to adjust the squareness a bit. Here Tobias is pulling a rope tight, while Isaac stands by to clamp the rope in place with vise-grips when it is tight:


Then we put on bracing straps to keep it square, even when going down the road, or being hit by geese at high speeds:


It was great to have my family here, to help get this framed. It was a flat trailer on friday...and sunday it had all the main walls! Thanks guys!