Both Saturday and Sunday were cold, wet, and miserable.

Saturday morning I started to mark up the positions of the noggings for frame #3.

It rained, the mark washed away, I marked it up again, the rain washed it away.

If I have been feeling better I would have, of course, used my builder's pencil.

Instead, because I was feeling so crook I just gave up, went inside to the warmth of the house, and fell asleep in front of the television.

Over the next few days I gradually installed all the noggings and then the cross bracing.

What I have discovered is that the framing gun really struggles to push a nail through two layers of jarrah and I have now switched to predrilling and hand nailing the noggings.

All other nailing is ok with the gun as it is going through a pine plate before penetrating the jarrah.

Thursday is forecast to be a fine day - I am hoping to transport frames 2 and 3 out to site on that day and maybe erect them on the Saturday.

Thursday

I did indeed manage to transport the frames out to site.

The frames are very heavy (80 Kg) but I managed to move them around without injury by sliding them down some pine timbers and attaching P trolleys with pneumatic tyres to roll them across the corrugations.

Caught up with my immediate neighbours Ian and Ross.