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Final install of remainingTrusses = Success!
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Using caution and Mcgyverisms I finished up installing all of my trusses for my 16x40 off grid home!
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You are truly an inspiration Don. You're doing great out there! Wow, shout out to Marisa for sending the fencing! That was super kind and thoughtful of her.
Yeah no question! She is so thoughtful its incredibly kind.
Every time I watch one of your 15-20 minute videos I'm so exhausted by it I have to take a weeks vacation to recuperate. You're the hardest working man in showbiz Don, you work harder AND smarter
I just had to LOL with that statement. Hilarious. Thanks so very much for all of the encouragement!
Old lady here, but I’ve done enough renovation to think YOU’RE AMAZING figuring out how to do all this ALONE!
Thanks for the lovely comments Nancy and I so appreciate you watching.
Way to go Don, you morphed into a real McGyver
Thanks so very much Peter!
@@affordabledesertliving3487 You're welcome Don, great to see your progress. A viewer had a suggestion that is right on, you need some diagonal bracing in the walls, maybe cut in some 1x6" lumber. I think that I would sheet the outside with some T111 siding that I would screw and glue.
Please Please ! Put some Diagonal bracing on all 4 walls. From the top plates corners running close to 45 degrees to the sill plate, This will keep the wall plumb, other wise you load the roof, the building will fall over sideways and your dead.
wow
Noted and done.
I loved Roadie's input too! How fortunate to catch that on video!
Yep indeed Sheridan. He posed nicely too.
A belated Happy Birthday, Don! Amazing work so far.
Don, please consider using a 4x8 scaffolding setup on casters. Gives you walking around space when working up high and you can pull it around while standing on it. The ladder will wear you out.
Glad to see you completed the work without any health mishaps. Once again you have shown that a person can complete the hardest task when they put their mind to it. Great work Don.
Many thanks for faithfully watching the progress on the home. Cheers.
Glad u get to celebrate with some local friends! 😃
Wow,you must be almost bursting with
exilleration of your accomplishments up to now.
Super blessed and thrilled for sure.
Necessity is the mother of invention! Glad you are makeing great progress!
Coming along nicely Don, at least one of us is making progress on their property.
Let's hear it for Marissa 👏
Seriously.
Work smarter, not harder. You are a great example of that.
My belate HAPPY BIRTDAY, youngster Don! Each single video you share with us fills me with deep admiration for your incredible engineer brain and physic talents. And your always sooo friendly and well minded explanations of what you are doing in that precise moment are simply the best and impress me in this rough world of nowadays. I thank you so much, Don!
That was amazing work you did on these trusses. You are so smart Don, and Happy Birthday to you as well!!! I hope you had the best celebration with your friends. I seriously think you developed some remarkable ways to install these trusses. I know you are hustling to get so much done before the rains pour. Thanks for sharing all your progress and all your processes. You 're an inspiration Don! Sending you blessings and prayers for continuing success, you deserve it! 🥰🥰And thank you to your angel follower Marisa, what a wonderful gift!!!!
Great ingenuity and an example of God's Grace to apply skills and abilities you didn't know you had. Remember months ago when we discussed screwing horizontal sheets of OSB into the exterior framing before you put finished siding on? Now is the time. I usually do that before loading the frames with ANY thing. That will protect you and protect your investment. It was really fun to see a totally different approach than anyone else has done to accomplish the task. Most buy a second ladder and park it across from the first and walk the trusses up or when available, scaffolding. You must have had a blast dreaming up 6:04 this " MacGyver
ism" ! Away we go! Onward and Upward!
I had no end to fun using my imagination to do this one to be honest.
Hello! Don! Great to see the trusses are up. You did this well. Looking forward to what comes next. I have faith in you!
Well all i can say is, you're doing the work of two men. Stay safe and as always be careful. PLEASE
Thanks Lee. Have amped up the safety/precautions etc.
This was awesome to watch ! Thank you for sharing your ingenuity with us !
Well, I may be older but I ain’t wiser. You out-engineered me by miles on those trusses. My solution would have been two guys and a helper on two ladders.
Buy several rachet straps on sale from Home Depot, Lowes or harbor freight. Secure one end at the top plate & streach diagonal down to the bottom plate & secure. Then secure at every vertical stud with staples, & do that from both ends to make an X on all four walls. The straps will not affect any sheathing installed later, but will minimize any racking due to wind before you put sheathing. One good wind gust can (will) create problems. (Been there, done that.) If you have enough diagonal braces for each wall, you'll be safe, but you saw how effective even a mild gust did with rafters. I am 81, building "tiny house" in Missouri Ozarks (1,200 SF) With/for daughter. Over 85% done in 4-1/2 years. She should be able to move in by winter. I love your project progress. It's wonderful to not have the pressure of necessity & accomplish something every day & realize what you can't get done today, you can do tomorrow. Keep up the good work while you're still in the "prime of your life". 🤔🤗
I agree with the bracing comment - either using diagonals or some sheathing in places where it won't block the doors or windows.
Oh how wonderful you have a roadrunner visiting. You have the funnest friends Don. Happy belated birthday wishes!
Pretty inspiring to see you solving problems and making improvements on your land - thanks for all the great updates!
Thanks a ton for watching!
Don, After you get your roof sheathing installed, you might consider using GRACE ICE & WATER SHIELD HT® High temperature roofing underlayment. Each roll is 3 feet x 75 foot. You can use it under any kind of roofing material. It has a sticky adhesive backing covered with a release paper film. You roll out a few feet along the eve, pull a foot or two of the backing off, line it up so there is a couple of inches hanging over the rake and drip edges of the sheathing and nail the top corner down. With it wrapped over the rake and drip edges, covered by those metal edges, you will NEVER have a leak. Roll out 10 or 15 feet at a time and then pull the release paper out from under the underlayment as you go. You start at the eve and each successive horizontal application has an overlap of 3 or 4 inches until you get to the peak..
No matter what type of roof you plan on installing over it, this stuff will prevent any kind of roof leaks in the future. It seals every single nail or screw you put through it. Research it. Watch a few install videos to see if this is something that might work for you. Although a little pricey ( about $235 a roll ), you'll never regret having it up there once your job is done. We did our house and shop with it.
Very helpful. Many thanks.
Really interesting, I learned so much, but at the age of eighty, not looking for any New endeavors!
You take it easy Don, don’t over do it!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Don❗great work 🌵I good luck with continuing progress on the new cabin~‼🌵
Don't overdo it in the heat. My 82 yr young brother in Tucson gets an early start on his repairs and quits for the day when it is too hot. You keep finding a way to get the job done.
Now the real fun begins --- installing the sheathing!
Don, you absolutely amaze me 🤩. You’re one of a few who has creativity & ingenuity to get a solution to an obstacle 🌟🌟 you remind me of my oldest son 😉
Don’t know if I’m early or late but….
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂🎉🎈. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I have enjoyed watching you build your house. I have a concern that you don't have any diagonal bracing on your walls. Before you try to dry in the structure, you need to put OSB or plywood on each side of the four exterior corners and attach it or run some temporary diagonal bracing from from the top of the corner down to your wood foundation and attach it to the top plate, the wall studs, and your wood foundation. I'm not a carpenter or a structural engineer but you have a lot of weight sitting on the top of your walls and a high wind or other lateral load acting on your trusses could cause your walls to shift and collapse like dominoes. That is just my opinion so please do some research and find the right solution for your situation.
Noted and I will do that. Thanks.
Happy Birthday, 🥰🎂! The home is looking great !
Nice one Don...Now, you MUST brace the walls and roof, as per the engineering, and install the tiedowns before loading the roof.
Great work...looking forward to the next video
Don…I love your site…lost it for awhile…found you again…I’m glad..nursing a broken leg
Hope your leg heals great Dyanne!
Wow, it looks like a house-- You did that! Hey, Mareesa was so generous and thoughtful sending you that fencing: my nickname is close to hers, pretty unusual, but her gift casts into the shade the little Amazon gift card I was able to send you way back. I'd send you the moon if I could! Love the shot of the neat roadrunner trying out your roof. Thanks for the update, it was exciting footage! Love and Happy Birthday to the youngest 69-year-old ever. Cheers from So California.
Things are looking good! You probably sleep hard after all that hard
work.
No question Martna. Early to bed and up when the sun comes up.
Looking good Don.. looking more like a home everyday ! 😁👍
One step at a time. 👍👍👍👍
Fantastic thinking and work Don! You are doing so well. I wish my hands were there to help. Thanks for a super video! Send the inspector my regards.😊
Inspector Roadie the roadrunner says hi.
First of all, a very happy birthday to you Don .Secondly .You never fall to amaze me with your ability to have a go at just about anything .Great idea with the metal spacers from amazon, they will definitely add to the stability of the trusses .You are a very modest genius .
That would been something my dad would have done working on his own, he'd build a pulley system or some other genius gadget to help him. Keep up the awesome tips and tricks for DIY's
My hard working determined cousin. Way to go!❤❤
Thanks so much for the encouragement Shirley! Regards to Dan!
Happy Birthday Don
im still one of the young blokes. still 68
I'm exhausted. All that wooden structure built by ONE man! It's impressive and it looks great to me! (I built a doghouse once, that was the end of my construction work for life...) It's always enjoyable to see you building your 'desert dream' since episode one. BTW, that's the first time I've ever heard a roadrunner chirping! Happy Birthday!!
Thanks Lawrence. I got a chuckle out of the doghouse reference lol.
You were born in the same year as my husband and me😊 many happy returns
Snap same here, but in May. Cheers from down under.
May person as well mate.
Awwww…..Happy Birthday Don! 😃😃😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎂🎂🎂🥂🥂🥂🥳🥳🥳
GOD Bless you, stay safe!
Lets see, I'm 73 and you're 69. There is no way I would have tackled a project of this scope 10 yrs ago, never mind at 69. You get a huge 👍from me for your tenacity. I would have called 1-800-Tuff Shed from the Git-Go without a moments hesitation no matter the cost. By the way, I remodeled a 2 bedroom house from the studs up at age 62 and it about finished me off. I can't imagine from the ground up.
Super fun to do the build I find and also I save several thousand dollars by building it myself.
Happy birthday Don
What a great job you did!
Great job be safe. And happy birthday 🎉🎉
Great progress Mr Don. ❤❤❤
Happy Birthday! I'm glad to see the truss work got done without injury. Top notch job!
Happy Belated Birthday Don! We really enjoy your videos and think you're doing a great job building your new home.
19:15 Thank you Marisa for helping Don with all that fencing! 😃
Belated Happiest Birthday to you Don -- hope you enjoyed your day!
Looking good Don.
Happy birthday Don! 🎉🎂🍻🎈🎁
first time I ever seen those spacer, really cool product
Happy Birthday Don... I hope you had a wonderful day!!! stay safe and happy... Deb from South Dakota
Do -it- all - Don
Goodonyas!
McGyver 2.0😊 so impressed.
Thanks so much Robin.
Awesome Job Don and Happy birthday !
Genius work Don. Congrats
Thank you kindly
Happy birthday Don 🎉 enjoy your day
Happy birthday on 69 you looks. like you are doing a good job, be careful from Australia Queensland Gympie 😊😊🎉🎉
Happy Birthday Don may you have many more im back in Australia and i had my 67th Birthday while i was away your doing great there couldent some one help you get the trusses up ?would have helped you but your stubborn really hey good job on it all i dont think i could build that all even my brothers and Dad were builders mainly brick layers That spacer for the 24 on center was great never knew there was a thing like that alot of people there just use spare timber Your a amazing man Don in that heat its like when i worked in the outback you get used to being out in that weather
Don you are a legend!!.
Happy Birthday
Don, you’re doing a great job but we would’ve helped if you needed us. That seems like a big job to try alone. ❤
Thanks Pam! I simply wanted to have the adventure of a solo build. If I was Brian I would have been able to reach up and grab the trusses and flip them easy LOL.
Next up: Pyramids!
Priceless LOL. Thanks for watching.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Great work! It's exciting to see things moving along ✨✨
I am building a RV shelter this summer, you gave me some good ideas on getting the truss's up.
Happy Belated! Bet you're resting up - well deserved.
Hey there Don!
happy birthday don ....cheers🍻
Very impressive. I don’t think I could have imagined your setup. Did you have any help from the Greeks or Romans? That was my thought.
Love you ! Please take care !
Thanks so much! Yep have amped up the safety mindset.
Looking good. Happy Birthday Don !
Happy birthday 🎊🎁🎂
You should look into getting a baker scaffold
Way to go Don! Exciting to see it looking like a house!!!
thumbs up
Thanks Tom.
ingenious!! Sparky way to go keep safe!!!
way to go and inventive
Great job
Happy birthday Don!
Well Dun! I expected nothing less!
Yeaaaa👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Happy birthday.
❤
Happy Birthday 🎁🎂🎈 🏠
nice work, young man.
Thank you kindly
Happy Birthday Don!!!!
Thanks for the kind birthday wishes.
Brilliant
Good Stuff.
Happy birthday!