With additional seasonal manpower provided by Christmas guests, we got the steel up before winter set in. Actual snow has halted progress for a time, but the truly difficult bits are done...except for the roof cap.
Guests are on their way, and I have just time to overhaul the pump, which has been behaving badly for several weeks. It cycled too frequently, so I replaced the the pressure tank, but now I have to replace several fittings blocked by mineralization and the pressure switch too: the pump fails to start at 20psi, leaving an alarming total absence of pressure.
After some rain and a bit of a blow, the power is out, so I have deployed this never-before-used generator. To my astonishment, the battery worked just fine (once I found some small nuts and bolts for the terminals). The outage was over in about 20 hours, so all we missed was some showers. I kept the fridges and freezers running and saved the Christmas baking.
We had a bit of a blow, and out went the power. As we are heading for quite a green Christmas, it was easy enough to deploy the BBQ and make a late breakfast, next to the shed-in-progress. The trusses are up, thanks to the scaffold crane and electric winch, and now it is time to start on the roof sheathing.
Well, not the roof but the trusses. I built a scaffolding tower and attached the crane arm. I hooked the electric winch to the eye at the end of the beam and up they came.
