MLK Challenge Team Helps Put a Roof Up
What a great
surprise. In the middle of January the sun came out and the temperature jumped up
into the 40s. It was a perfect day
for our MLK Challenge.
The big surprise,
however, was that everything we planned to do that day changed. Our challenge was to
dig out our root cellar in the basement of the model Eco-Home.
Instead, literally
minutes before our team arrived, a delivery truck showed up with our roof trusses for the
house.
Our challenge instantaneously changed: we unloaded the truck, and carried a
ton of trusses down to the work site.
We had to think
through our challenge and engineer a way to move the trusses, nearly 60' in length,
down the hill and up on the roof of the house.
By the end of the
day we had fastened down the internal scaffolding, set up scaffolding in front
of the house, carried down all of the small trusses, and then carried, lifted,
and slid into position the two heaviest girder trusses.
With these two girders in place, we
can now begin the installation of the roof, starting at the two outside ends.
Working together
to make a
difference in this world!
