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Originally Posted by Dantilla
Hmmm.....
Not what I was hoping to hear. My plan is to soon frame a carport/storage building now that the snow is quickly receding.
So you don't think it's wise for me to stick-frame the roof with 2x8 rafters?
I really appreciate the input.
I may stick my finger in my ears and scream La-La-La-La- like a 4-year-old, but I'll try to listen.
Grrrrr......
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I've built all my life. You can do things the hard way and the not-so-hard way. Framing is no different. You just have to engineer a way to do it with less lifting. A helper goes a LONG way to achieve that.
Take this from a guy that wouldn't take it easy. Workers comp is so costly in CA that I only carried it for a short time. I took risks and hired people that weren't insured from time to time which is pretty damn stupid. But for the most part I did the work myself. I estimate that I have installed 5000 doors and windows over a 25 year period. Towards the end it was very painful to do anything above my eye level. At the end I couldn't raise my right arm more than 10º to my side. And I was still framing last summer. Very stupid and the surgeon told me that I was a tough case, not as in a tough guy (which might be true) but tough to correct the shoulder. They had to do a bone graft to find enough anchorage for the prosthesis.
Someone said that if you have an injury see to it sooner rather than later. I believe that might be better, but if I had a replacement back when it was first recommended I'd be way more than half way through the life of that shoulder. And I wouldn't have taken care of it either. I know better now. And you should too.