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The Ruth G. Trillich Memorial School at Florida Flywheelers
Village
Building Project in Progress - May, 2001
Sawmill and Preparing to Frame
Lewis is carrying a freshly milled board to stack it for drying. Green wood
must be dried to allow for shrinkage (as many of our neighbors can attest). Lew
stacks the lumber with plenty of small sticks between boards to allow for airflow.
A covering is placed on top to keep the stack dry. The polyethylene film we started
out with turned brittle, retained water, and tore miserably, so most of it was
replaced with discarded scraps of tin roofing. Lew then used tent anchors to
tie the piles in place as we are on a hill and gusts of wind can come up suddenly
and rearrange things before you know it.
This is a view of the back of the mill showing the growing pile of sawdust from
all the sawing going on. An old caterpillar diesel motor is connected to the
saw blade by a belt while the logs are carried to the blade on an old cast iron
mount.
Lew is getting boards out of the back of his golf cart to be used as the bottom
plate for the wall studs to stand on..
Here is a view of the dedication in the slab once it is framed with the wall
plates.
Behind the framed floor slab is a stack or two of lumber fresh cut from the sawmill.
The plastic was weighted down with excess boards and cement blocks. This turned
out to be a bad arrangement and had to be changed to pieces of leftover tin roof
held down with twine tied to tent pegs driven into the ground.
Just
click on the school sign to see more pictures of our school being built.
