On the adobe walls in the new house, we are going to have large timbers above the windows and doors to carry the weight of the adobe over them. And when I say large, I mean large.

Yesterday, we went to Silver City to pick up the timbers. It took an elaborate configuration of two forklifts to get them into the truck bed. Then because of the weight, the truck kind of tipped over on its back axle, and I think I heard it moaning a potentially dying cry, and we knew that wasn’t going to work. (We’d estimated the weight ahead, but you never really know what the moisture content of the wood will be.) So we arranged to have the timbers delivered by truck next week instead. (For a whopping fee of $20. Yeah. OK.)

The longest beam had already been put on the truck’s rack, so we went ahead and drove that one home. This morning we unloaded it. Man, was that thing heavy! We moved it in our normal heavily brain-assisted way with lots of leverage and small moves. Not exactly sure how we’re going to boost these things 8-12 feet in the air, but I’m sure we’ll figure it out. :)