rest of photo album

[countryborn]

Our in-house tech support is actually in our house today, so he gave me some hints.  The other scene was a view from our "deck."
These photos are in chronological order, April thru Nov of this year.  ( We started, with a hillside pasture, no road or anything, about 3 years ago.)  don't know if the captions will show.









 

[Redoverfarm]

Takes on a different appearance when the white stuff hit the ground.  Both are good though. 

If you hit the return bar before the image insert and then after it will leave a  space for your caption and also break the photo's apart some. Just my $.02 worth.

[countryborn]

Thanks, I'll do that next time.  (and they aren't exactly chronological, but the 1st one was taken in April, & the last one was taken in the fall.)
Now, if I could just figure out how to send a copy of the 3D HA floor plan...     see, I started with the Universal 2 story, & modified it.  a lot.  had to customize the plan for our hill & the view. 

[MountainDon]

As for the floor plan, if there's no other way do a "print screen", then paste that into a photo editor and save it as an image file. Then carry on as you already did.

[glenn kangiser]

Gadwin Printscreen is a good free program to do that with.

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

Above is Freeware - Pro costs money for more features.

[FrankInWI]

Wow... looks great!  Nice community....beautiful area.  That's a LOT of wall to lift, how'd that go?

[countryborn]

We (2 of us) lifted the longer walls a little at a time, with the floor jacks pictured, & a sicsor jack, & jack stands, & improvised braces of 2x6 & muscle.  and, um, teamwork.  I was initially told to just sit there & stay out of the way, & take pictures if I wanted.  yeah, right, how long do you think that lasted?  I was scurrying around repositioning braces, jacking up just a little, rebracing again (while staying out from under the wall) etc.  didn't get too many pix.

[Redoverfarm]

Just a feat with the studs alone I can imagine with the ply as well.  If you didn't this time maybe on the next one  try to position the wall where it will be on the inside portion of the floor and then toenail 10d nails every couple of feet to the subfloor. Of course this would have to be done before teh sheeting.  Then when you lift it there is no kicking out at the bottom.  It sort of just creaks up and does hold it steady in the process.  Maybe this will help another soul later that reads your thread. 

[countryborn]

We did toe nail.  First put together the framing, then toe nailed, then attached sheeting.  Pretty much had to attach sheeting to framing before raising walls, since the ground is about 9 feet below the main floor, as you can tell in some of the photos. 
See that 8 foot long piece of pipe scaffolding in the 3rd photo done?  That is all of our real scaffolding.  To get to where we can attach the felt paper & the T1-11, we will scab together add'l scaffolding with ladders & left overs.  Maybe we'll rent something, I don't know.  It takes so long to finish anything, I hate to think what we would pay for rent by the time we finished with the scaffolding.
But we can probably build something adequate.   hmmm.  more research required.  also maybe a pulley somewhere to facilitate lift those awkward sheets of T-1.
But first, have to build the "brace wall" inside & get our framing inspection done.