O/T Its getting close

Anonymous-0 · Oct 9, 2012

To do the big LIFT :wink:

SweetFeet · Oct 9, 2012

Lyle N.,
Hope you video it and post it. Would be really interesting to see.

gtractorfan · Oct 9, 2012

Got Paul Bunyan coming to help?

Daryl in PA · Oct 9, 2012

no weather vane?

Mike (WA) · Oct 9, 2012

Yeah, and tell the videographer to KEEP SHOOTING, no matter what! If things go sideways, you can probably sell the video to one of those blooper outfits for enough to pay for the damage.

Badger bob · Oct 9, 2012

boy ho boy got to git me a big bag of popcorn and sit back and watch. good luck to ya. Bob

pete black · Oct 9, 2012

looks good, it very apparent you have done this
before, my confidence is in you.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 9, 2012

I just figgered you was gonna give up on having it lifted, and just hire a bunch of midgets to work for ya...

GordoSD · Oct 9, 2012

Can you dig an 18 foot hole underneath it?

jbp · Oct 9, 2012

It can be done. A neighbor raised a building used for a hog grower high enough to get a road tractor and box trailer inside. Its now a tobacco stripping barn, about 14 ft. at the eaves. Joe

mjbrown · Oct 9, 2012

Stuff it full of helium balloons? I'd much prefer putting the tin on
there than up on the poles.

larry@stinescorners · Oct 9, 2012

If anyone can do it Lyle can !

Anonymous-0 · Oct 9, 2012

With helium being in such limited supply, it would cost a fortune to raise the roof with helium balloons. If you can find it, a 244 cu. ft. helium is about $350. The equivalent size oxygen is less than $50.

David G · Oct 9, 2012

I am still waiting to see you get that roof on top of the walls.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 9, 2012

(quoted from post at 01:15:45 10/10/12) I am still waiting to see you get that roof on top of the walls.

am doing this all by me lonesome so its taking me a little longer then I thought, this is the first time Im doing some thing like this so I have ta scratch me heads lots..lol

JDB · Oct 9, 2012

Plenty of hot air blowing out of Washington and best of all, it is free

RN · Oct 9, 2012

So if walls are up and roof is next to them, and you have slanted ramp boards, lots of rope, pulleys and a tractor handy you can hitch rope to braced side of roof and pull it up slanted ramp, then over top plates of walls to close to finish location. pry bars for final locating, then nail down to center, then some bolts in predrilled holes in top plates to end of rafter or rafter ties. Amish do this with horse teams when moving or repairing storm damaged roof structures or sometimes working up new buildings when prebuilt trusses are used as a base for ground finished roof. Tilt roof with jacks to get clearance for a brace/rope or chain attach beam, ramps, brace end wall and pull. Alignment beams/boards guide roof onto walls in proper place, lag bolts to roof from underneath through the top plate-as noted predrilled pilot hole- and you have it tacked in place for final hold downs.

casenut1 · Oct 9, 2012

looking good.

Tony in Mass. · Oct 9, 2012

Just thought of something. The crews that raise the blue harveststore silos, don't they have a sysyem to raise stuff like this? Not shift it over the width of itself, but I would give one of them a call and see if they can get that on in a morning ...without incident...

Paul from MI · Oct 9, 2012

Hot air from Washington, AND THERE'S LOTS OF IT, is not free! We taxpayers pay for evry bit of it.

GordoSD · Oct 9, 2012

I would do a lot more work on the structure first. Make sure it can take a few "hits and misses" from the lid.

JMS/.MN · Oct 9, 2012

Harvestores are put together roof first with top panel, then lower panels as the first ones are jacked up with 6-8 hyd jacks, run in unison. Similar to grain bins with hand cranked jacks. They do not have the ability to move anything sideways.

RusselAZ · Oct 9, 2012

Worry about you. don't get hurt. You are to much fun to replace.

donjr · Oct 9, 2012

I'm waitin for the video when you lift that thing. I want to see the look on Smokey's face when you catch him taking a dump under there.....

Ralph Bauer · Oct 9, 2012

I think I just re-invented a different way of raising a barn (roof). Built the walls, then trusses and rafters, sheething, and roofing materials..... I think they did that in the good ole days....lol...
Go Lyle!!!

Anonymous-0 · Oct 10, 2012

(quoted from post at 23:19:40 10/09/12) boy ho boy got to git me a big bag of popcorn and sit back and watch. good luck to ya. Bob

ous gonna have to eat your popcorn fast, cause it will be spotted within an hour :wink:

randallinMo · Oct 10, 2012

I"d like to ask an obvious question that no-one has...."Why are you doing it this way"????

Anonymous-0 · Oct 10, 2012

(quoted from post at 14:48:28 10/10/12) I"d like to ask an obvious question that no-one has...."Why are you doing it this way"????

ts safer, easier, cheaper and turns a 3 man job into a 1 man job

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