Roof trusses are an efficient, fast structural system.

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From the start of framing I reserved the second wedge - walls and roof - contingent on the date by which the rest was completed. A roof-less wedge would be impossible to protect from winter rain. On the first of October I decided "go ahead" withi the second "wedge."

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A lot of wall awaits sheathing. Accessing the high walls is a challenge. The framers use a mobile scaffold, gradually orbiting the perimeter.

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While framers complete the wall sheating Bruce begins to apply roof metal. It is mid-October. Rains could arrive at any time.

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Framers are leaving. They help hand me some roof metal sheets to the roof.

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Signing the beam, a Japanese tradition.

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Framers have left. Funds are gone. Bruce must complete what the framers overlooked.

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The framers had to go elsewhere and my framing budget was exhausted. By agreement the rest of the work falls to me. The first challenge is the lack of access to the high reaches of exterior walls. They framers had used a mobile scaffold they took away with them. My scaffolding was far short of what was needed to ring the whole building. How was I to complete the nailing?

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Framers have left, along with their mobile scafflold. The rest of the nailing must be done by me.

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Bruce begins deploying scaffold, cantilever brackets and improvisation.

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For now the priority is roof metal.

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Spreading roof metal in anticipation of first rains.

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Various odd means to get access to the upper reaches of walls.