This was the most exciting day of this building adventure so far! As many people call it "Crane Day"! At 8am on Feb 5th when the crane arrived it was 13 degrees outside!! We decided to leave the babies with Gramma to keep them out of trouble and I wanted to be on hand to shoot pictures.
We set the flew and set the first container without any trouble.
The container was sitting adjacent to the pad so it was no problem to hook the straps to the top and move it in place.
It did take a little wiggling to get it in the exact position, but as it was on the ground it wasn't that big a deal. The crane did have to lift it off one or two times before it was square. Then the welder tacked it in place. They had bolted plates to the concrete and later the welder attached L shaped plates to secure the container on place.
Then for #2:
And #3- the top one on the back stack. By the time we got to this one you can see they had tied ropes and were guiding them into place. It was still a trick to get the two lined up square, at one point they were trying to use a sledge hammer to ease it over just a bit. (Imagine trying to "ease anything over" with a sledge hammer.) (A container stacked on another one is about the only thing heavy enough to be "eased"!!!)
If you have the money, renting a "man lift" would be a good investment. John wound up buying one that we will resell soon, but it would have been nice to have on hand that day.
If you have the money, renting a "man lift" would be a good investment. John wound up buying one that we will resell soon, but it would have been nice to have on hand that day.
*side note!
I forgot to mention, one of the first things the welder did way back, before we even dug the footers was to weld these pipes to the two top containers. You can see them in the picture below, the pipes have plates welded to the top of them and they are what we will weld the steel trusses to
I was inside trying to thaw out and fix lunch when they set #4 on the tall footers. You can see the supports for the trusses in this next picture too.
One of the guys who delivered our containers called John a bulldozer. Here is proof, lifting a container with one hand!
You can see the footers better in this shot.
And they are stacked!! Until next time!
Please leave me questions in the comments section. I know I'm leaving out a ton of info, but ask and my hubby will answer through me!
Until next time
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