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The Ruskin House: Glu-Lams & Loft Installation 2004-December Main Beams & Video Summary |
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The summary (or mostly) video:
Below: a scale model of the beam pieces to find rigging points and sequence and also to solve the joint which ended up being a huge open mortise and tenon with a pair of 1.5” dia. purpleheart pins with wedges driven in perpendicular to the grain and glued with the resorcinol. See the next page & scroll down for more details on it, |
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. . . forge ahead . . . |
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Crew: (left to right)
Mike Calvino: “no really, I think this’ll work”
Mike Rahal . . . “no, I think I’d break it.”
Dave Calvino : no nonsense, just silly walks
Nhieu Van Dang: “ok . . . let’s do it.”
Ken Flemming: “don’t worry ‘bout yer mule goin’ blind, just load yer cart!” . . . steel god . . . walking encyclopedia.
Daniel Currea: “yea, I’ll get the wood stretcher . . . where is it?
Al Scott : “I’ll bring it to ya.” |
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Pretty sure this will work . . . ?” |
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The first beam being lifted out of the main space to set it on the ground for re-rigging. |
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Certainly some high-tech balancing and counterweight systems . . . Ha! That bit of extreme common sense came from Ken Fleming! |
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You can see here the first two W12’s & the first of the two 2” pipe hangers at the left side going up to the Steel Truss that frame the floating loft floor. |