Getting the roof on the shed

I tried to weasle Vegas-Josh into flying up to help with building the roof for the shed, but that didn't work out, so i recruited Corvallis-Josh and got some pointers and more drawings from Scott. I'm not sure if this was exactly what Scott has in mind, but it's what is in place now and i'm not changing it.

We started out with preparing the ridge beam. Josh and Sus put the truss supports on the ridge beam while i ate lunch (i needed my strength).



Then we attached some support pieces for the ridge beam. In Scott's drawing, he had noted that the roof should be a 12 / 4 pitch. When i first read this, i was thinking that mean that the peak of the roof would be 4 foot above the top of the structure, so i built the support piece that tall. I attached it to the structure and then noticed how high that was - it was ridiculous - so i called him up and decided it should be 2 foot above. This was much better! (In the picture below, the support piece is just above the blue step on the ladder.)



We set the ridge beam in place and started attaching the trusses. Although we don't have pictures, each truss is then attached with a hurricane strap to the building structure.



By the end of the day, we pretty much had the roof structure in place.



Josh had to take off for a hot date, so Sus and i finished up some of the small stuff, then (in Josh's borrowed Tundra) headed back to Home Depot for sheets of siding and other misc stuff ...