One Month
It's been over a month since I've updated the blog. Unacceptable I know.
However, a great miracle happened this weekend. The Roof got raised. It took two days instead of one and 12 hours instead of two, but I couldn't be more thrilled. The process is a bit hard to explain in text, but basically we built two tall wooden archways, drove the bus underneath them, connected cables to the roof, ran those cables over the top of the arches down to winches, cut off the roof with a metal saw and used the winches to raise it up. Then we took steel poles bolted them to the free hanging roof, lowered the roof a bit and bolted the bottom of those poles to the bottom of the bus. Voila, the roof is two feet higher than it was before.
Of course, this was not without incident. The wooden archways were swaying in the breeze at slight winds and so we had to bolt them to the lower half of the bus for additional stability. The steel poles didn't want to lower properly into the holes we had made for them so two people had to go up on the roof and jump up and down until they lowered into place. It was wild.
Frankly, though pictures tell the story best. Here are some high quality ones shot by our friend Tom:
http://tomwalsh.homelinux.com/pix/index.php
However, a great miracle happened this weekend. The Roof got raised. It took two days instead of one and 12 hours instead of two, but I couldn't be more thrilled. The process is a bit hard to explain in text, but basically we built two tall wooden archways, drove the bus underneath them, connected cables to the roof, ran those cables over the top of the arches down to winches, cut off the roof with a metal saw and used the winches to raise it up. Then we took steel poles bolted them to the free hanging roof, lowered the roof a bit and bolted the bottom of those poles to the bottom of the bus. Voila, the roof is two feet higher than it was before.
Of course, this was not without incident. The wooden archways were swaying in the breeze at slight winds and so we had to bolt them to the lower half of the bus for additional stability. The steel poles didn't want to lower properly into the holes we had made for them so two people had to go up on the roof and jump up and down until they lowered into place. It was wild.
Frankly, though pictures tell the story best. Here are some high quality ones shot by our friend Tom:
http://tomwalsh.homelinux.com/pix/index.php
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