Through all those dreams and through the time spent working on the shop, Aldo developed a healthy level of respect and admiration for the boulder. He never feared it, though it tended to be the primary actor in many of his more ominous dreams and it always seemed to spook Kahn. After all, dreams are just dreams, and the boulder is just a boulder.
The workshop walls were framed and raised into place. He built in the rafters, collar ties, and ridge beam all himself, and followed those with the more tedious task of cross bracing all that framing. Over two day’s time, he was able to tack on all the sheathing and roof decking. On a third day, he layered on the shop weather barrier. The large clerestory windows arrived shortly after and at that point all the corrugated metal roofing was installed above.
Aldo rigged together a pulley system that would allow him to lift the heavy windows up to their eight-foot sill and install them himself. The pulley worked like a charm on the first window. When he moved it to place another, the pulley toppled over from the weight of the window, shattering the glass and mangling the frame. He wouldn’t risk that happening again. Breaking one window would already set him back in his progress. He resolved to find help installing the remainder of the glazing.
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