April 27 2007—page 2  

Here come the second set of trusses.

There are some smaller parts that Tom, the guest cottage framing crew boss, has to remove before they can be raised to the plate.
Here they come.
The crew catches them, making sure they don’t snag on batch A1.
Once they are braced, the crew unhooks the crane cable from the bunch of trusses.

Next the crane will move the final glue-lam beam for the barn. The previous beam has been bolted into its bucket and is ready to support one end of this beam.

It’s hard to see here, but the crew has tied a leash onto one end of the beam, to guide it and keep it from swinging en route.
For some reason, the crane operator swings the crane all the way around clockwise, and brings the beam up from the north side of the barn.
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