{"id":438,"date":"2013-10-30T15:55:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-11-14T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:06:16","slug":"the-third-steel-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"The Third Steel Beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today all the floor joists for the second floor went in. \u00a0But first the last steel beam had to be lifted from the ground\/basement level to the second floor and set in place atop the first floor walls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-439\" alt=\"131030_steel_beam\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam.jpg 450w, https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam-439x300.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many men does it take to lift a 1000 pound beam 20 feet? \u00a0Turns out the answer is ten, if they are hearty, clever, and determined. \u00a0First they used ropes to tilt one end up to the main floor, then used brute force to lift and slide the other end up and over, onto the floor. \u00a0Then they built a wooden ladder of sorts in the walls for the beam ends to be lifted and set upon, one rung at a time. \u00a0It was all a very impressive feat to witness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-440\" alt=\"131030_steel_beam2\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam2-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131030_steel_beam2-398x300.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today all the floor joists for the second floor went in. \u00a0But first the last steel beam had to be lifted from the ground\/basement level to the second floor and set in place atop the first floor walls. How many &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/?p=438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanvan.com\/outsiders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}