Feb 1, 2008: Second floor beams

Found a local sawmill to cut our second floor beams.
I rented a trailer & brought these to the lot. All I can say is these 4x10 poplar beams were about 200 lbs each!


Dusty!! Jessica is using an electric planer to clean up the rough-cut beams.



Here's a before:

& after planing & sanding:


We used a 2 ton chain hoist to lift the beams onto the girder logs. Worked quite well & safer than trying to get them up a ladder hah.