Only 13 blades?, I thought it would be higher, but then again my point of reference is a channel that should remain nameless, anyway Great progress today Jim, It is awesome to see that bent sitting up there, I guess its the process... preparation, preparation, some more prep, and then bam, big visual progress
Glad to see that your day has turned out better than mine. I am still trying to get across the mountains in California. They turned me back yesterday cause they closed off I-80 so I had to get back to Reno Nevada. And today I made it all the way to Dinner pass and broke a chain so they would not let me come down the mountains again I had to go back to Reno Nevada to pick up some new chains. I am done. Guess I will give it another go at it tomorrow. I was wondering how you was going to lift all that weight. It worked out great.
TheTradesmanChannel that thing worked for the ancient Greeks etc still good today .i think a smaller version with a hook of sorts at The apex and instead of the rope pulling it up a length of 2x4 as a leaver to hump the beams onto the saw horses instead of you bending over and humping them on your own .just a thought spread the load and make it easier for you . Do you know the most common way to slip a disc in the back is brushing your teeth in a morning .we all think our backs are strong but,think is it? I know you must think what nutter but I have a lot of time to think what if etc now. I see me in you a lot when I was your age just trying to help mate that's all good luck and take care 👴🏻🔨🔨👍
Beautiful, engineering marvel, Morning Jim. Only one problem, you are as happy as a school girl, you will need to get some Depends now that the second floor is going up! Congratulations, job well done.
Hello Good to see you are giving your back some rest from manhandling those heavy timbers. Please be careful with that lifting rope, when lifting up the Shear legs the strain on the rope is much grater when the top of the Shear legs is close to the ground,the shallower the angle,the higher the strain on the rope, even when not lifting anything with the shear legs, Remember quoited braking strain is when brand new and with no knots in the line. As some one who did tree work for a long time, it is all ways good to be save around all lifting and lowering gear. I heard you telling those around you to keep clear, as always we see you being very safety conscious, just though I would mention the rope just to be safe. looking forward to the next video.
I think it is called a "gin pole" it is used to turn horizontal pull into lift. I am having trouble posting comments so I dfon't know if I somehow got unsubscribed or something?
Gin pole would be shaped like a tee with one upright. They were used for centuries. Shear legs have two legs and were sometimes used to "grasshopper" river boats over shoals way back when.
I'm sorry I didn't answer part of your question. I'm not sure what's going on with UA-cam. People have getting unsubbed here and there who have not themselves unsubbed. Been happening a lot.
Jim, The shear legs are a great example of where theirs a will theirs a way! Very inspiring and gets me excited for my barn build this summer! keep up the excellent work and content!
Excellent video Jim! I like the video, thumbs up! I'm going to share it to my Facebook group now. We have close to 6,000 members, so hopefully we can get at least a percentage of them joined your Channel. It is a woodworking group, so I suspect they will like your timber frame videos.
Jim, awesome video as per normal. What else would we expect from you. The shear legs worked well, understand the idea now. Hope the weather cooperates and you don’t get a dump of the white stuff. Keep trucking brother
I just planned out the same thing yesterday and then saw your video this morning. Nice to see it in action! Great work! Thanks!- Bryan from Colorado Mountain Living
Quality video shows how things were done before mobile cranes. We have a place here in Bangkok called the ancient city and it is full of old timber framed buildings from all over Thailand, mostly teak and has resident carpenters on site repairing stuff, maintaining ancient crafts. I am sure you would appreciate what goes on here, there are a few videos about the site but do not show the woodworkers in action. Regards Paul
An englishman living in Thailand, I was in construction most of my working life so I enjoy your videos, used to work alone as a roofer so I know where you are coming from., its not easy.
Morning Jim... wow... a thing of beauty! So excited to see this go up. You made it look so easy. With just that one bent up I can see exactly how the roofing system is going to look. I built my barn the same way, only with logs of course, not as big as yours, only 22 x 28 feet, but big enough for me. Looking forward to tomorrow's sharpening. As far as snow, we're up to about seven inches of wet, heavy snow, so far. Hope you don't get any.
My wife just sat and watched this one when she got home from work and she said, "Jim is an impressive man". Not to swell your head too much, but I thought you would appreciate that. She had her hands into everything when we were building our log home and she knows the hard work you are doing it by yourself. She said that watching you brought back memories of all the work we did when we built ours.
I had no idea how big that thing was until I saw you standing next to it @ 6:40 Definitely shared on my Tiny Twitter & mancardless FB. Thanks for sharing. Glad to see you getting so much done this week. -Will
Nice pair of legs you got there, Jim. ;) I love seeing people doing this kind of stuff. Posted this to my FB group, Practical Rigging. This fits, for sure.
Shear-legs success. Looked like they were barely long enough, but they were long enough by a few inches. Great process. Beats building ramps to get your tractor up there, right?
... that's good news.. i made a smaller/taller version out of that ( tri-pod ) w/ c channel, a few decades ago, to put in new water well pump. mine is 400 ft. down & i didn't want to pay to have it done..lol ;)
... it may be a little deeper than needed, the pump is @ 360 ft. But when it's a 100+ degrees, there ain't NUTHUN better than cold well water... NUTHUN..;)
Love to to see the progress Hurry up now your getting me excited to see it up. LOL We only got 5-6" of snow today here in Cortland hope you didn't get buried
Dear Jim, Yet another great instalment from the man with "Thunder". This facet of raising hefty piece is of particular interest to me as I've always scratched my head as to how one can single handedly get such things up in the air where required. In fact it would be nice if at some point you could perhaps devote an episode of the various methods of working by yourself; this was one of the question I wanted to raise (no pun intended) quite a while back. How would one have overcome the challenge of raising the bottom timbers if no tractor was available??? Well done Jim & kind regards.
Thank you Kim, that would be great if you could as I am sure there must be a few souls out there asking the very same thing. How the Dickens do you get this up without heavy equipment??? Kind regards.
Dear Jim, Thank you very much for your courteous reply; I'll be sure to see that episode so that you put me out of my misery wondering how you clever people do this. Kind regards. P.S: Don't forget now, the fat man in his go faster suit will be knocking; don't greet him with either the pooch, shotgun &/ Queen/King post (whichever is the heaviest!!!)
Dear Jim, Thank you for your esteemed reply; I seldom am right (story of my life!!!), but I must confess it would be nice to know what possible options are open to one. Kind regards.
Always enjoy watching your progress. Improvise, adapt, and overcome. I work by myself alot and it takes some planning sometimes to get things done. Stay warm and safe during this current weather event.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been looking at a good way to lift my triple 2x12x26’ beam up for my sawmill shed and I think this might be the way to go. The beam itself will be 6x12x26 once it’s all glued/nailed together.
Where there's a will there's a way. It really looked silky smooth going up, I'll probably use something similar when the time comes. Great to see something vertical on the second floor and I'm pumped to see the rest of the bents and roof go on!! Great work and way to keep plugging along when many would have given up because of weather.
Hi Jim - great job with the chain hoist and sheer leg. Since your half way done on the second floor, when are you going to attack the third floor? Have a good day and be safe!
Coming along thank you I have been learning a lot from you could you send me a link for that forum for the load capacity I am thinking of building a timber frame shop myself and other structures thank you again one of the most real channels that i watch. be blessed.
I have a rope puller that I use for guiding trees while falling, its has a 1500 lb. Max working capacity, I suppose that is heavy enouf considering that you used the butterfly knots on the rope to lock it while lifting the structure. The rope puller never actually see's the weight of the structure, am I right.
Hi Jim great footage, how much narrower are the up rights than the main up rights on the ground floor, if it is narrower will that affect how much room you have in the wood shop, be very wary of the rigging you never know about ropes
I thought that they were going on top of the rim plates silly me, my knowledge of barn building as you can see is not that good. The shear legs work great, what sort of load can they take ?
All depends on your rigging. With this set up I wouldn't go over 1,000 pounds and that is more because of the rope I'm using than anything. The legs themselves could probably handle a little more.
Hey jim. It looked as that bent had the top notched to accept a top plate. Correct me if im wrong. Will the rafters rest on top of that top plate of that and then down to the lower header board and rest with a birds mouth?
All joking aside .... Did you cut out bits where you measured the angles and lengths of your legs and lines? ..... If not that was some Awesome reconing (still pretty good even with measuring)! Also you need to add in a factor to your weight to get a safe load calc on your lines when the angles are extreme (I bet you did that already and just didn't mention the boring stuff) Finally those are some funky bends you have on that double line ..... any specific reason? ...... Final, final point .... How are you going to raise the end posts?
End bents will be raised the same way but they be but they'll be tipped in instead of out. That will be a little trickier. As far as measuring I made it 14' tall at the apex and cut it in half for the width at the bottom. The braces I just laid them in by eyeball and trimmed with a chainsaw.
That video came out very well. I did hear a little wind, of which you spoke but I could still hear you well enough.
Wind was nasty yesterday.
Good job on that guess u really don’t need help keep it up looking good
Spectacular! Way to work smarter and not harder. Nicely done Jim!
Thanks Gary
Very good job, Jim....you are a super an to wood working....lol
+Lorne Lepage thanks Lorne
"They say 'necessity is the mother of invention'...I wonder who the father is? Probably remorse". - Red Green Great work with the shear legs!
I love Red Green. Thank you.
Only 13 blades?, I thought it would be higher, but then again my point of reference is a channel that should remain nameless, anyway Great progress today Jim, It is awesome to see that bent sitting up there, I guess its the process... preparation, preparation, some more prep, and then bam, big visual progress
That's why you Denmark your logs, blades will last twice as long. Goid afternoon.
And you are spot on about the process.
Hey Jim. That was one of the coolest things I've seen. Who needs a crane. Bet it was cool when that bent sat up straight.
Hey Tim, felt like a million bucks.
wish you the best through the storm.
It's pretty well over now, just drove 50 miles through it twice today.
Glad to see that your day has turned out better than mine. I am still trying to get across the mountains in California. They turned me back yesterday cause they closed off I-80 so I had to get back to Reno Nevada. And today I made it all the way to Dinner pass and broke a chain so they would not let me come down the mountains again I had to go back to Reno Nevada to pick up some new chains. I am done. Guess I will give it another go at it tomorrow.
I was wondering how you was going to lift all that weight. It worked out great.
That is one long day, wow.
sweet job Jim awesome nothing like it when a plan comes together
Hi Jim so so glad you've rigged something for lifting.enjoyed watching.take care catch you on your next adventure
Hello David. There was no way I was standing those by hand, I thought about for a fleeting moment but that would be a bad thought.
TheTradesmanChannel that thing worked for the ancient Greeks etc still good today .i think a smaller version with a hook of sorts at The apex and instead of the rope pulling it up a length of 2x4 as a leaver to hump the beams onto the saw horses instead of you bending over and humping them on your own .just a thought spread the load and make it easier for you . Do you know the most common way to slip a disc in the back is brushing your teeth in a morning .we all think our backs are strong but,think is it? I know you must think what nutter but I have a lot of time to think what if etc now. I see me in you a lot when I was your age just trying to help mate that's all good luck and take care 👴🏻🔨🔨👍
Morning, Jim.
Hello Bob
Yes...smooth!
Awesome to see a queen bent go up. Nice engineering job there Jim!
Thanks Chris. Good afternoon.
Great job and good progress. I am glad that you showed a way to lift that does not involve a machine saves on the back.
Beautiful, engineering marvel, Morning Jim. Only one problem, you are as happy as a school girl, you will need to get some Depends now that the second floor is going up! Congratulations, job well done.
Jim Looks like you dodged the bullet. Sure glad for snowblowers. Love the video's. It is nice to see a craftsman working to finish a project.
We got it a little but not much, the wind was nasty though.
Hey Jim, I'm here. Nice job, Thumbs up as always !!
Hello August. Thank you.
I gotta say. That worked well. Good thinking! 👍
Hello Harold.
Hello Good to see you are giving your back some rest from manhandling those heavy timbers. Please be careful with that lifting rope, when lifting up the Shear legs the strain on the rope is much grater when the top of the Shear legs is close to the ground,the shallower the angle,the higher the strain on the rope, even when not lifting anything with the shear legs, Remember quoited braking strain is when brand new and with no knots in the line. As some one who did tree work for a long time, it is all ways good to be save around all lifting and lowering gear. I heard you telling those around you to keep clear, as always we see you being very safety conscious, just though I would mention the rope just to be safe. looking forward to the next video.
Very good advice and with the kids running around I worry pretty badly about them getting hurt.
That a-frame worked pretty slick ,never seen that done yet .
I think it is called a "gin pole" it is used to turn horizontal pull into lift. I am having trouble posting comments so I dfon't know if I somehow got unsubscribed or something?
Gin pole would be shaped like a tee with one upright. They were used for centuries. Shear legs have two legs and were sometimes used to "grasshopper" river boats over shoals way back when.
I'm sorry I didn't answer part of your question. I'm not sure what's going on with UA-cam. People have getting unsubbed here and there who have not themselves unsubbed. Been happening a lot.
well done, mate.
Thank you
Ingenious, well done. Wife must be excited at your progress.
She is.
So glad you rigged up something...been worried about all the heavy lifting! Making good progress!
Good morning Donnell
Jim, The shear legs are a great example of where theirs a will theirs a way! Very inspiring and gets me excited for my barn build this summer! keep up the excellent work and content!
i guess it is kinda randomly asking but does anyone know a good place to stream newly released series online?
@Kamden Imran Flixportal :D
@Ricky Dominik thanks, I went there and it seems like a nice service =) Appreciate it !
@Kamden Imran glad I could help :D
Great.....just great
Good evening, thank you.
Very impressive!! Great job brother. I hope that your baby feels better.
Fever is gone and she's much more energetic.
I'm glad to hear that. You take care.
You too Paul
I've never seen or heard of "Shear legs". That's pretty clever. I was surprised to see you kicking the beam, and it moved?
Not much contact where it was resting so it's easy to move at that point.
Excellent video Jim! I like the video, thumbs up! I'm going to share it to my Facebook group now. We have close to 6,000 members, so hopefully we can get at least a percentage of them joined your Channel. It is a woodworking group, so I suspect they will like your timber frame videos.
Thanks Mike.
Jim, awesome video as per normal. What else would we expect from you. The shear legs worked well, understand the idea now. Hope the weather cooperates and you don’t get a dump of the white stuff. Keep trucking brother
Nice job.
Thank you and good morning.
I just planned out the same thing yesterday and then saw your video this morning. Nice to see it in action! Great work! Thanks!- Bryan from Colorado Mountain Living
Hello Bryan. Worked really well.
Quality video shows how things were done before mobile cranes. We have a place here in Bangkok called the ancient city and it is full of old timber framed buildings from all over Thailand, mostly teak and has resident carpenters on site repairing stuff, maintaining ancient crafts. I am sure you would appreciate what goes on here, there are a few videos about the site but do not show the woodworkers in action.
Regards
Paul
Hello, I've been wondering who was watching in Thailand. Asia has an incredible building history.
An englishman living in Thailand, I was in construction most of my working life so I enjoy your videos, used to work alone as a roofer so I know where you are coming from., its not easy.
Good morning Paul.
Good morning to you, but evening over here, must be 12 hours in front or there abouts
Morning Jim... wow... a thing of beauty! So excited to see this go up. You made it look so easy. With just that one bent up I can see exactly how the roofing system is going to look. I built my barn the same way, only with logs of course, not as big as yours, only 22 x 28 feet, but big enough for me. Looking forward to tomorrow's sharpening. As far as snow, we're up to about seven inches of wet, heavy snow, so far. Hope you don't get any.
We're getting it, not as much though. The wind has calmed some at least.
My wife just sat and watched this one when she got home from work and she said, "Jim is an impressive man". Not to swell your head too much, but I thought you would appreciate that. She had her hands into everything when we were building our log home and she knows the hard work you are doing it by yourself. She said that watching you brought back memories of all the work we did when we built ours.
I bet they're great memories too. Tell her I says hi.
Will do. She had become one of your video watchers now.
☕️ aah
Two days of near blizzard in S MICH
Up to 10 in snow...which I luv it’s beautiful. The rest..well.
That sucks. We must be catching the northern edge of it right now, just a dusting and some wicked wind.
Sunny and mid 30’s with light winds at 9:30 am Central time near Chicago.
I use the NOAA radar weather site to see what’s coming my way .
radar.weather.gov/Conus/centgrtlakes_loop.php
Hard north wind and snow here in northern NY.
I had no idea how big that thing was until I saw you standing next to it @ 6:40
Definitely shared on my Tiny Twitter & mancardless FB.
Thanks for sharing. Glad to see you getting so much done this week. -Will
And Instagram. ..
Thanks Will. I've seen them much bigger on frame builds, amazing what you can do with them.
Nice pair of legs you got there, Jim. ;)
I love seeing people doing this kind of stuff.
Posted this to my FB group, Practical Rigging. This fits, for sure.
Thank you sir
Vary impressive Jim. you are getting r dun, have a good one my friend
You too buddy.
Shear-legs success. Looked like they were barely long enough, but they were long enough by a few inches. Great process. Beats building ramps to get your tractor up there, right?
Sure does...they actually had a bit to spare, a good two feet if I rerigged the chain hoist.
... that's good news.. i made a smaller/taller version out of that ( tri-pod ) w/ c channel, a few decades ago, to put in new water well pump. mine is 400 ft. down & i didn't want to pay to have it done..lol ;)
That is one deep well.
... it may be a little deeper than needed, the pump is @ 360 ft. But when it's a 100+ degrees, there ain't NUTHUN better than cold well water... NUTHUN..;)
I agree.
Love to to see the progress Hurry up now your getting me excited to see it up. LOL We only got 5-6" of snow today here in Cortland hope you didn't get buried
We're getting it but not too bad.
Hey Jim that was very cool, I never seen anything like that before. Impressive indeed!
Thanks Jeff. Old ways can really save a guy sometimes.
I'm not into Facebook but I' have told several of my friends about your channel and videos.
Thanks man
You could have just put a sail on the thing and let the wind lift it. Jeez. That's wind. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Wind is nasty here this week.
Dear Jim,
Yet another great instalment from the man with "Thunder". This facet of raising hefty piece is of particular interest to me as I've always scratched my head as to how one can single handedly get such things up in the air where required. In fact it would be nice if at some point you could perhaps devote an episode of the various methods of working by yourself; this was one of the question I wanted to raise (no pun intended) quite a while back. How would one have overcome the challenge of raising the bottom timbers if no tractor was available??? Well done Jim & kind regards.
I can do that Dilip. Good morning.
Thank you Kim, that would be great if you could as I am sure there must be a few souls out there asking the very same thing. How the Dickens do you get this up without heavy equipment??? Kind regards.
I think you're right
Dear Jim,
Thank you very much for your courteous reply; I'll be sure to see that episode so that you put me out of my misery wondering how you clever people do this. Kind regards. P.S: Don't forget now, the fat man in his go faster suit will be knocking; don't greet him with either the pooch, shotgun &/ Queen/King post (whichever is the heaviest!!!)
Dear Jim,
Thank you for your esteemed reply; I seldom am right (story of my life!!!), but I must confess it would be nice to know what possible options are open to one. Kind regards.
Awesome! Looking forward to the next one. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching.
Always enjoy watching your progress. Improvise, adapt, and overcome. I work by myself alot and it takes some planning sometimes to get things done. Stay warm and safe during this current weather event.
Good afternoon, it's more fun to think of ways to get the job done than actually doing the job.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve been looking at a good way to lift my triple 2x12x26’ beam up for my sawmill shed and I think this might be the way to go. The beam itself will be 6x12x26 once it’s all glued/nailed together.
Where there's a will there's a way. It really looked silky smooth going up, I'll probably use something similar when the time comes. Great to see something vertical on the second floor and I'm pumped to see the rest of the bents and roof go on!! Great work and way to keep plugging along when many would have given up because of weather.
Thank you. It was a great feeling to see it go up.
I built a rolling boom with a chain fall to left my ends into place similar to your build. Nice job as always.
I bet that worked really well, fun to figure out ways of doing things outside of the box.
Hi Jim - great job with the chain hoist and sheer leg. Since your half way done on the second floor, when are you going to attack the third floor? Have a good day and be safe!
Hello John, great to hear from you.
Shear Legs? Oh ! You mean an 'A' frame. the old guy Bert
They're proper name in timber land is shear legs, of course I think A frame sounds a bit more like it. Good afternoon Bert.
Coming along thank you I have been learning a lot from you could you send me a link for that forum for the load capacity I am thinking of building a timber frame shop myself and other structures thank you again one of the most real channels that i watch. be blessed.
Just search forestryforum and it'll pop right up. Good morning.
Thank you Jim.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
I have a rope puller that I use for guiding trees while falling, its has a 1500 lb. Max working capacity, I suppose that is heavy enouf considering that you used the butterfly knots on the rope to lock it while lifting the structure. The rope puller never actually see's the weight of the structure, am I right.
sweet
Used to seeing you on Instagram, good evening.
Just goes to show that old technology works. and in most cases just as well as new, and a whole lot cheaper
It works really, things like that are becoming lost on a whole generation.
Hi Jim great footage, how much narrower are the up rights than the main up rights on the ground floor, if it is narrower will that affect how much room you have in the wood shop, be very wary of the rigging you never know about ropes
Those span 14'. As far as room goes it'll be a little less but it'll only be posts in the way.
I thought that they were going on top of the rim plates silly me, my knowledge of barn building as you can see is not that good. The shear legs work great, what sort of load can they take ?
All depends on your rigging. With this set up I wouldn't go over 1,000 pounds and that is more because of the rope I'm using than anything. The legs themselves could probably handle a little more.
They take the load off your back, Jim what style roof are you doing , Gambrel or gable
Gambrel. Good morning Doug.
Just wondering if a wench off a truck would be a great help?. I bought a little cheapo just to pull my boat up on the trailer and it works fine!
I bet it would work much better.
Just finished this video. Two questions one did you just put a strap around the top? For the chain hoist. Two how did you get the assembly down?
It's light enough I can set it down by hand. Yes, it is just a strap choked around the top.
Hey jim. It looked as that bent had the top notched to accept a top plate. Correct me if im wrong. Will the rafters rest on top of that top plate of that and then down to the lower header board and rest with a birds mouth?
You got it Lance.
TheTradesmanChannel great work jim. Cant wait to see the rest of the bents together and up
You and me both. I'm ready for it to be finished.
TheTradesmanChannel im the same way..... then i get bored and start a new project! Haha God bless buddy. Stay safe
Man this slop they call snow is No Good S*#@! lots of trees and branches down. weather looks better up there.
I'm in Lacona right now, been steady snow here all day.
we are wet and heavy further south you go.
Nice shear legs. It would have been interesting to see the last few degrees getting to 90. Maybe your camera bat gave out.
what are the queen posts screwed to and sitting on
Queen posts are sitting on the 10"x16" tie beams below, 10" Timberlocs holding them.
no tenon and mortise needed
I should have but they aren't going anywhere.
All joking aside .... Did you cut out bits where you measured the angles and lengths of your legs and lines? ..... If not that was some Awesome reconing (still pretty good even with measuring)! Also you need to add in a factor to your weight to get a safe load calc on your lines when the angles are extreme (I bet you did that already and just didn't mention the boring stuff) Finally those are some funky bends you have on that double line ..... any specific reason? ...... Final, final point .... How are you going to raise the end posts?
End bents will be raised the same way but they be but they'll be tipped in instead of out. That will be a little trickier. As far as measuring I made it 14' tall at the apex and cut it in half for the width at the bottom. The braces I just laid them in by eyeball and trimmed with a chainsaw.
where are you when cable snaps.............. it works........but.........assemble and pay for crane.
I'd love to pay for a crane but I just plain can't right now. If I don't get it this way I can't get it done.
thats fair..... remember cables snap. evaluate , ''where will my body be if it does''
Those thoughts run through my head on every piece I put up, I spend a lot of time looking things over first. Those are good thoughts to keep in mind.
Btw you too.