well we put the bressemer beams in place yesterday! it is nice to have them up and off the ground. putting them up was a little daunting because we knew we needed to have someone lift them in place for us with a boom truck, which we had no idea where to find someone that had one. just having to work in the air is significantly slower than on the ground and i don’t think we were looking forward to that. luckily johnny parker came out and helped us weld the beams to the columns. it took almost all day and thanks to joe and his crew from akron who supplied the truck we were able to get them in place and secured.

all that is left is to put structural welds on all the columns and prep the beams for the recievers to be welded on. we hope if all goes well that we can have them on by the middle of november.

here are a few photos of the raising, there will be more to follow in the next post.