I forgot one question.
How do you raise the bents in the order of #1,#2,#6,#5,#3,#4? How do you get the last #4 bent up. Wouldn't it hit the other raised bents. I wouldn't think there would be enough room to tip it up. Maybe there is, I have to look at my drawings to see how long the main posts were compared to the bent spacing. Where is the jin pole located to tip up the gable bents? Where is the gable bent lying when it's tipped up. Is it on the floor with it's post bottoms beside where they will go and the jin pole located on the ground at the end of the barn, or is the jin pole on the floor with the bent turned around and once it's tipped up the posts are pushed a bit at a time to the end of the barn where they will go?
I assume that the secondary posts (the ones that sit on the main tie beam and are capped with the main perlin at the rafters) are lifted up after all the bents are up and the wall plates are on to hold them up. I can't imagine this all going up together as one huge bent. You would have to brace it like crazy. Doesn't sound right to me.
Steve.
