The roof is finally up. Tom, Scott Eckert and myself went up to the lake first week of March. It was a little nippy at -20 but it made the freight sled pull nice on the cold snow and when the sun came out it was nice to bask in it a little as we took the first truss out of the trailer and placed it on the sled. We took just one the first trip in case we ended up with a rodeo going in. It was tight in several areas of the trail we had less than an inch of clearance for the 7 foot by 20 foot truss. With the length you had to be careful in any narrow jog in the trees or cut banks. We had a couple miles of lake then 3 1/2 miles of through the woods and across 3 small lakes then up to hill to our place. We barely skinned a couple of spruce and thought we had hung up on a small birch the fist load. It pulled right past and we got to the front of the cabin about 45 minutes after leaving Wolverine Lodge.
We Stacked the truss against some trees and headed back. We had 12 remaining so took small loads of 3 and made 4 trips. It worked quick and slick. We were down to 25 minutes to make the 6 1/2 mile one way trip. They were stacked and ready to haul up and tie to a second floor wall.
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