Off-Grid Mountainside Income & BarnBuild Ep23 | How To: DIY Gin Pole To Lift Wall & "Shear Panels"

Well our second wall lift using our DIY gin pole worked well, but I didn't place the pick points low enough and ended up having to do a lot of maneuvering to get it upright. In the end it went well and we are now 1/4 done with the walls.
I then spend a day putting up sheathing/shear wall panels on the first floor to get the east wall all tied together.
Utilizing advanced framing techniques, building science and a limited budget, we set out to build an affordable living quarters/workspace above an animal barn. We want the building to reflect our existing home's modified Saltbox shape, but of course with our own design and eye for clean lines, functional features while utilize resources our Appalachia homestead provides us.
You'll find this in the beams and columns from Poplar and Black Locust felled at the building site, to locally sawn Hemlock for traditional board and batten siding site finished using the Japanese wood treatment Yakisuki (aka Shou Sugi Ban).
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[@ralfschumann6201]

Xft you can if you need what you want... oky ttfnow

[@MaFettig]

You had the gin pole on the wrong side of the wall

[@PoeRunCraftProvisions]

Yes, ideally it would be on the other side, but this second floor is 10ft above the ground level so I would have needed a 25'-28' gin pole.