Wanna see how vigas are installed? Here you go, with share requests.

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It's Tuesday, which means that it's my busiest day of the week, and almost my longest writing day. The post for Wings's site will not be ready for several hours yet. so in the meantime, since folks have expressed a great deal of interest in the vigas, I'm putting up this quick a dirty post showing how it's done.

What you see above is the more or less finished result of the hoist job, but it began as you see below:

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Buffy had been up on the bond beam; here, he jumps down onto the scaffold. Toney, José, and Lawrence carried the beam through the doorway and are hoisting it into the air for Buffy to catch the other end.

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Buffy lowers that end to the scaffold, while the other three push it forward from the end.

Meanwhile, Buffy's hopping back up onto the bond beam — from the vantage point of someone looking at the photo, just out of sight on the upper left. He walks that beam like the Skywalkers, although his indigenous blood is more likely to Puebloan than Mohawk. 

What you also can't see here is José and Lawrence jumping up onto the scaffold to wrangle to other end.

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Meanwhile, Toney ties industrial twine securely around the left-most end . . . 

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and then loops the loose end of the twine and throws it up to Buffy, waiting on the bond beam out of sight at upper left.

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While Buffy holds the end of the rope, Toney keeps it from falling on the bound end, while José and Lawrence lift the end on the right (that little dark-blue square at upper left through the window is Buffy's legs and feet on the bond beam).

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With all four of them working in concert, they lift the beam (and fairly rapidly, too). José and Lawrence heave it into its place on their end while Toney balances the other end as Buffy lifts with the rope.

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Once the four of them have the beam level, Buffy continues to pull on the twine while the other four slide it toward him to span the entire forward half of the house.

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Once in place, they settle it securely, unhook the twine, and the operation starts all over again with the next viga.

I will likely have more photos later, of what they'll be working on next, and if so, I'll add them in a separate post. For now, here's the share information, which we will still need consistently: first, our YouCaring page, via the widgets provided, especially the widget code from the purple box at the lower right-hand corner of the page, to give you this:

Next, Wings's Web site; sales are, after all, both how we pay our day-to-day expenses, as well as a means to fund construction. 

And finally, spirit sister belinda ridgewood's diary for us last night at the GOS, which has more photos and more info.

Many thanks to everyone for all the help you've all given us thus far. We have a long way to go, but things are about to start moving very, very fast. I'll update as I can, but I'm still way behind on everything right now.

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