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<\/a>This beam is too long, since it actually touches the ground, but we can shorten it later. The bungee cords worked well and will be so easy to remove when the time comes.<\/p><\/div>\n
Lifting the beam that high was extremely difficult, and the twisting of the beam was quite dangerous to both of us.\u00a0 Dan came up with another solution.\u00a0 He drove the metal pry bar into the ground, adjacent to the beam while it was sitting in the correct position in the bracket, and then all I had to do was brace it against the pry bar and keep it vertical while letting the pry bar do most of the heavy work.\u00a0 Dan did the heavy lifting, and viola!\u00a0 One beam in the right location!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Center ridge beam put into a brace at the right finished height. Wow, was that hard to accomplish.<\/p><\/div>\n
By the time we managed that, both of us were pretty well pooped.<\/p>\n
Next chore, cut a 4×4 beam and get it in place, and braced.\u00a0 This meant moving the concrete blocks again, using a piece of string as our guide and lining them up.\u00a0 We got the 4×4 where it belonged, and then tried to life the ridge beam into place.<\/p>\n
Not a chance.\u00a0 Even with a taller ladder it was too much weight for Dan to handle, and I was of no practical use.\u00a0 I did try to get killed a couple of times during that process, getting into the wrong location while trying to help, and getting yelled at for being in danger.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s hard to get good help \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n