A White Christmas in Williams

Most years I would think that a white Christmas would be kind of a nice touch to get one into the holiday spirit. Not this year.

There was about three inches of snow covering everything when we arrived late Friday afternoon. My son and I got right to work getting the slab shoveled off. We ended up getting the majority of the snow shoveled off by dark.

I was up long before sunrise trying to get the SIPs shoveled off on the second floor. We are using them to stand ladders up on temporarily until we get some sheeting put down. By sunrise I had most of the snow shoveled off of everything up there, as well as the SIPs on the ground.

Our first project was to put back together the platform I had made this past week for hoisting 12 ft. pieces of sheet rock. I made it so it broke down to fit in the truck to transport up to Williams.

The middle has an arm that swings down and then a piece of sheet rock can lay on the platform and then the arm is swung back up into place to hold the piece while it is lifted into position.

I had hoped to have a picture of us setting a piece in place , but it was a little breezy while we were working with the sheet rock so there was not a lot of spare moments to stop and take pictures. Hopefully next week I will get a shot of the platform in action.

I must say it worked great and sure saves a lot of time and aggravation trying to man handle 12 ft pieces of sheet rock and getting them into place on the second floor.

After getting the lifting platform together we got to work moving the scaffolding to the South side of the house and adding two more sections to it. This should save on a lot of time moving ladders into place and make the whole process easier. By the time this was completed the remainder of the snow on the timbers was melting off, and was making things feel more like it was raining out with water dripping on us in spots and the ground starting to get rather muddy. Fortunately it sounds like we are in for above normal temps so the snow will probably be short lived.


I can't say it was an overly productive day but we got a lot of little things done and ready to go for this next week after Christmas when we will be spending the whole week trying to make a dent in getting the SIPs up.

May all of you have A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!