Saturday, October 3, 2015

Week 1


     Our first week working outside of the shop, we drove ourselves down over the hill and were seperated into small groups - ours being a group of three. We were asked to set up lines for a squared foundation (eventually moving into erecting concrete forms), and in the picture above I am driving one of the four stakes.
 

Driving our third stake.


Here we are fine tuning our foundation's squareness, shifting the nail head as needed (and maybe driving another stake or two.). Once we were getting matching lengths, widths and diagonals, our foundation was square and ready for us to tie our lines on.
 

Stringing our line, making sure it's wrapped tightly and securely.

 

Once we had a square foundation to work off of, we started to construct our batter boards. They needed to be set at a 90° angle, so we went ahead and used a 3, 4, 5 triangle. If measured 3 feet on one leg, 4' on the other, the span between them pulled in (or pushed out) to 5' gave us our right angle on each of the four batter boards. 


Finally our batter boards get their legs! We measured 3' from our stake and line to get each batter board leg equidistant and keep each leg parallel to the foundation line. Next post we show how we set up for our foundation footing.

3 comments:

  1. Good blog start. Keep up with the detailed journal entries. Remember the grading rubric states a minimum of 6 photos for an A. Don't forget you can photo / describe any of the squaring exercises in the shop or even comp testing. You can revise this post for a better grade - maybe ask if anyone took any photos of the squaring exercises and have them email a couple to you.

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  2. Added the extra 2 pictures, to makeup the 6 total required.

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