Once again we had a productive weekend on the river - we managed to get a ridge beam manufactured onsite -- basically made a homebrew "glu-lam beam" with multiple full length 2x8's, a caulking gun tube full of Liquid Nails, and about 3 dozen regular nails courtesy of the Paslode nail gun. Built up a model of the gable end rafter supports and calc'd that we were going to do a 3/12 pitch roof, the minimum needed for good drainage of asphalt shingle, but yet easy enough to run around on w/o worry about slipping.
Once the beam glue dried we pre-hung the rafter hangers (metal brackets) and hoisted the beam up, them commenced with cutting rafters to pitch and hanging each one individually. We had to use an old fashioned hammer as the Paslode doesn't have a way to drive nails into the brackets.
After rafters went up we broke for lunch then went back to it and sheathed the roof as well. This is different than our last cabin as we used purlins rather than sheathing as the nailing surface for the final covering - on this one we're planning on simple shingles so needed to change plans.
We ended up being a bit short on tar paper so decided to just re-tarp (what is an Alaskan building without at least a little blue tarp showing?) the whole shebang and actually sneak in a little fishing at the end of the day. A final stop at the Buffalo Diner for a burger and malt on the way back to Fairbanks was in order and we got back to the house around 9 PM or so.
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