Bobbie Lane House

With the foundation in, we turned our attention to framing the house.  This entailed putting on sill plates which were bolted down with the anchor bolts.  And since it was a crawl-space construction, we had to put in floor joists, which were supported on piers and posts.  Fortunately the man in the house next to where we were building was a contractor and offered to lend my Dad a Skil Saw, otherwise I am certain he would have had us cutting all the lumber with a handsaw.

I don't remember a whole lot about the framing process other than that my brother reminds me when the inspector came out for the framing inspection he would not pass it off because we had nailed down the plywood parallel to the joists instead of perpendicular to the joists.  My Dad's solution to this setback was to put down another layer of plywood running in the correct direction.  Of course we hand nailed all the plywood with hammers (there were no pneumatic nail guns back then.  We did all the framing with hammer and nail.)  But it was a lot easier than if we would have had to pull out all the nails (with a Cat's Paw) in the thousands of square feet of plywood already down, then quarter turn each sheet and re-nail it.

Eventually the framing was complete when we finished nailing down the plywood for the roof.  We would soon be introduced to new skills besides swinging a hammer.