| A Weather Vane
Grant MacLaren 6/29/18 grant@grantmaclaren.com -- The base of the wether vane is a welded-up shaft. Its lower portion is 1/2" water pipe and its pintle is 7/16" in diameter with a "sharpened" top. A greased steel ball will reside in the tube at the base of the "horse." I've obtain a ball to replace the missing one. The assembled weather vane weighs 8 lbs, 10 ox. A one inch pipe flange achored the "base" of the weather vane on the horse barn roof in Rhode Island.
6/29/18 -- Grant, See attached. Revised to have the flat bar support mounted on top of the sheathing. From the photo you send showing the garage framing it seems like Todd will have the roof on the garage before you can have this support made. He will have to cut
4 slots in the sheathing to receive the tabs that get screwed to the side of the truss cord.
NOTE: The bottom three photos will require use of your "back button" to return here. BTW, I had this weather vane made as a gift to my parents on their 30th wedding anniversary. I mounted it on my maternal grandfather's horse barn. The horse represents the kind used by my father as a boy in Nova Scotia. It stayed atop that barn until the move to North Kingstown. |
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Another pretty good web page by Grant MacLaren