First flatbed arrived

Well on Friday afternoon last week, the trailer arrived with the first shipment of our timberframe. We were blown away by the size of some of the beams, with the largest being 6" x 10" x 24'. Three men can't pick those suckers up!

So Saturday morning, early if not bright, we went up to the lot to meet the boom truck to unload the trailer. The weather was, shall we say, not cooperating.
The boom truck arrived at 7:45 am.

We got underway very quickly - with Erick and I setting up blocking to lay the beams on, strapping the beams, hooking the straps to the ball on the crane, and Kevin (the crane guy) moving the loads where we directed. We pretty much layed everything out on the north and east walls of the frame, since the well digging truck was parked behing the house we had to leave the south and west sides free so he could get back out.

And before we knew it, the trailer was empty! Well, ok, it took 2 and a half hours and it poured the entire time. BUT we were done by 11:00 am. After that we were absolutely exhausted, and spent the rest of the morning/early afternoon lying around being lazy.

And... now we know where the low spots on our floor are. ;)

And here we are Sunday morning, with all the lumber tarped over:

Stay tuned - I will be posting another update today! :)