#220 Removing a 100-Year-Old Stone Roof

Lets help together You go here maybe... In the next one we'll put the there anyway And then uh flip it already? the legs on the rocks, should be kind of level turn it around good for now

Nice. Okay. The other one is pretty light. did you put the choke?

lets see, does it get stuck at the choke? no you have to hold the gas, and then push it down That's choke I think we go behind it it's easier to walk than to lift it Good.

So now we put those on the ground there Feels a little scary that you're standing on half a plank with your right foot or do you feel safe?

Yeah or this one? Yeah, try it. that, that one, and this one And i think i can bind it pretty high a bit closer Good enough.

Yeah. yea it's good Oh, it is way better. And for two minutes, everyone was scared that it broke down. two whole minutes that's quite long. Well this one has been fallen from the scaffolding also the first time. I have now three of those [Sony] A7IV's and they're all kind of broken This screen is broken, right? Yeah, and other screens are broken and then I bring them away,and they fix them, and then I break them again So you need lights for the ... I've out too much salt pepper? it's kind of finished The rooster was making its first crow.

He's so tiny still. It sounded funny I couldn't record it because it was just a few times. Well, he 'll do it again. today is a big day We're gonna take the roof stones off. Eventually I decided to do like two ramps coming down from the sides because that's where we carry the stones Eventually I will finish the scaffolding also in the middle for when I have to do stonework on the gable and, Put beams in place, etcetera. But now it's just best to do it like this because I'm limited in the amount of boards that I have And it's best if the scaffolding is as wide as possible here as we come down with the stones, because there's a few really big ones bigger than on this cabin so uh it's gonna be a big job. It's hot weather so I think we'll have tomorrow also still so we're five people so Should be feasible So we start from the top and work our way down it freezes, right

Okay, not too fast. Yeah. That's how you want to cut the wood too, eh? tension goes the other way It wants to be cut. One quarter each? I'll make small pieces, it's easier easier to munch. Is it good? Yeah. So it's I I think it's a but yeah, I'm also on the camera. I gotta have this ride in one go. It's perfect.

It is Yeah, that's uh that's a nice big one. So these long hammers are very helpful to save your back when you lift a stone like this, right? A stone like this for example, Keep your feet here, underneath it, you lift it up and the trick is not to lift it up entirely, but to keep it vertical so if we have those very big ones later It's best to do your best to keep it, you know. . This is a heavy stone where I can just keep it like this. And then to move it around mhm, to lift it up on your own, it's not possible, but you can... right? one person. Careful for the one stone, it's a bit lose This one is nice to walk, so you either walk it, or you roll it.

If you have like a more round stone for example you go with this one you go like that again if you keep it vertical it's quite it doesn't weigh anything you know if you want to walk it again if you keep it vertical, it's quite... it doesn't weigh anything if you want to walk it, you don't lift it up here, but you push here, so you use the leverage, like so. You need help? Or you want to go on your own? Every stone works a bit different, but I'll manage It is very thin.

Let's go. Keep it right. behind it if you do smaller steps...

a bit further because I don't think... So let it come down. it's gonna be tight walking, because hm... I think this one we should roll it because it's gonna be too wide to walk. There we go. slowly The one on the corner is bigger. Let's go. Too big to fail. Too big to fail! That's perfectly good shoe Just need to find the other one.

Is there another one? I don't know. more? I don't know what it is. From a bucket, I think or a pot oh it's a bell! They are heavy. lets go! one, two..! That's it. One, two. That was all yours Trying to locate some dormice, that keep me awake at night the young chicks are not yet accepted in the flock.

The adults are very violent towards them. Still after three weeks or so, four weeks they're together. So um I guess it's just a matter of time. At some point the rooster is gonna be the dominant one. Baby steps I don't see behind the rock...

You're going good Now we're going down. Almost done guys.

Roll it? It's thick... Okay, let's do this one with the five of us, okay? Yep. Be careful, I think the wood is gonna take a beating So let's roll this Oh yeah, this one Uh roll it back a little bit? or just rotate it a bit. Okay. That's what I thought This was almost the same one That's okay. If you if you know this is gonna happen you can just anticipate. Okay, okay so now we need a lot of hands there. careful, careful, careful That's not in the middle. it was just exactly on a weak spot So uh we'll fix it. Yeah I think we need more more guys on top there.

with the hammer you can do it Two guys on top and two hammers pulling Let's go! Let's go guys! Okay, slowly Another shoe! Okay, well, okay, so we have to walk this point a little bit more to the middle. So push from here. Good enough? Okay. And now we're gonna we're gonna rotate it if you guide the board. Okay. So the point Needs to be in the middle of the board, right? Yeah. So I think we're gonna have to come a bit closer. Look at the dancing spiders. Slowly, slowly, slowly Good, that was easy.

Big big step. Big step. Which side? So that side. One, two. Yeah. Yeah, it can go further and the light switch is too close to the door frame

Alright, the door frames... well, the workshop doors were a bit of a side project this week Started working on the wood. It's very beautiful wood to take it through the planer and see what it does. It's very exciting I think with just a little bit of oil it's enough because the wood is quite dark from itself. Right now working on the door frame Made a few mistakes because the light switch was too close to the frame eventually. I didn't measure that properly The same with the threshold, so the self-leveling concrete is gonna be to where the door closes and that's also not in the right place. I have to fix that before I continue. So yeah, that takes some extra time. I think next week I'll be focusing more on the doors because I want to have that finished Yeah, it's a big job because I'm not very experienced in making doors.

Basically the the door down there, the arch door was my first door and these are going to be Dutch barn style doors, so there will be two and two, so four doors eventually, eight hinges, so it's a bit more complicated the roof went really well. Had a really good group of people. And because we built the scaffolding in this way, it made it really easy to walk the stones off. I watched the video of the first roof we did it, which was... Four years ago, I think. Um I think video number twenty-eight or twenty-nine or so And the scaffolding was quite a bit different because we had different levels because we worked with different materials and that made it quite difficult. So this is definitely better. Safer as well because it's like 120cm wide, the scaffolding, so it's it's really easy to walk around So yeah, next week I'll be focusing also, well I could take the battens off, but I should really focus on the doors first, and then continue with the roof.