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| The first trusses were laid out on the
street. There was no room on the site to do this. The pattern was
set aside for week #2 to use to build all the rest needed. |
We stayed in a Catholic retreat center for
priests, we were told. This room served as our dining room and devotions
room. |
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| Day #3 began with turning that pile of
block in the foreground into a front wall for the building. That's J W
Peavy, our senior block layer. He's 74 years old. So don't use age as a
reason for staying away. |
While the front wall was going up, several
guys began setting posts and welding bar joists to set the floor on.
Notice the truss in place against the back wall. |
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| Two men welded the bar joists to metal
plates mortared into the block on the walls, as you see here. They welded
the other ends to the center beams. |
The front wall is nearing completion and
it's not yet noon. Here, men are handing up buckets of mud (mortar) to the
masons, as well as blocks to get the job done. |
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| The local church members had no trouble
jumping right in. |
When tasks were completed, the masons
(Johnny in this case) jumped right in to help us lowly laborers get the
block and mortar up to the men finishing the top. |
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The final block is laid to complete the
four walls of the church. Praise God! Now just the front entrance and
steps to build to complete all the block work.
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In the mean time, guys are hanging over
planks on the floor joists to bolt the end angle iron to the walls in
order to hold the sheet metal flooring needed to carry the concrete floor
that will be poured next week. |