Rick and Ellen's: Better give you and up date on the shop building

I have forgotten how long it has been since I posted anything to do with the shop building! This is what it looked like from the public road September 25, 2010.

This has been a real blessing to see this all come together so well and to a certain degree easy. It is a testimony of what I feel is good communication and great work ethics. John Landers he is the builder we hired. His dad is the one that owns the sawmill and the excavating equipment but that is not why I hired him. Though his dad is very handy to be able to give him a call and he is right there as much as possible. For example he brought over his self loading logging truck and swung trusses. I can only imagine what is would cost to bring a crane up there for thirty thee trusses.

I hired him for several reasons. He designed a shop or building this is patterned after. However not with the same construction methods. Ours is a conventional stick built building. The one I seen him build last year was a pole building. He had a method for doing the door ways that did not take up room but actually made the doors taller and more useful. This was done by setting beams on top of the wall rather than a conventional header, and the trusses had to be modified to accomplish this. Thus comes in good communication. Conveying to the truss company exactingly what he needed was done with very little tolerances. True carpenter craftsmanship.