Hello everyone
Just had to stop in and see these wonderful pics and the great comraderie going on inthis thread.
A few posts back Ken was wondering what kept the feet of the bents from kicking out as the frame was being lifted, well I have reconstructed and raised a fair number of historic buildings over the years using man power assisted with gin poles you name it, in every instance what I did was to position one man with a good 4 foot pointed pry bar at the foot of each vertical post inserting it into the mortise hole, and as the post and bent was raised he would just gently guide it into its final resting spot, you would just hear a dull thud as it dropped into its position as the weight of the bent came to bear on it as it neared its vertical.
good thread
NH
