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Project History 2005
The porch post came
for the Warm Lake fire just as did the load of logs that were milled for the
rafters. We used big foot plastic cone shaped footers and 10" sona tub.
A triangle shaped #4 rebar cage was used to reinforce the concrete. The
base of the footers were 42" below grade and on 8' centers. Forest helped
Matt and I mix and pore the concrete with our 1/3 yard electric mixer.
The pore took about two hours for the two yards needed for the job. The ledger and
header plate, Matt milled from the logs. The rafter are 2" X 8" X 10'
secured with a 2" X 4" nailed to the roof TJI's. The stringers are milled
1" random weight stock. 30 pound paper will be applied before we install
the metal roofing.
The porch posts were also from the fire in the Warm Lake area. The post were hand-hewn by Matt. The posts were an average size of 12" in diameter. All were blacked during the fire. Most of their bark missing. Matt hand-hewn the post to the desired finish. Kris was willing to give the hand-hewning a try. Allen used Ray's tractor to level the porch area to grade. Allen did a good job (fun) getting the porch to grade. Tag dug the trench for the big foot footing and sona tubs Tag dug a trench to the desired depth for the big foot footing. We prepared the trench to set the plastic footing and sona tubs. The plastic footing and sona tubs system allowed to the footing with one pore. Concret finished October 21, 2005. We set the porch post with Ray's tractor. Sid and Joyce came over to help for the day. Matt used 5/8" x 18" lags to attach the header beam to the posts. We finished setting the post and then started on the 2" X 8" X 10' rafters. The rafters are attached to the roof with a 2" x 4" cleat. View of both front and back porches October 31, 2005. The south porch posts with the deck joist complete. North port rafters October 31, 2005.
The porch posts were also from the fire in the Warm Lake area.
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