The outside two glue-lams are 51" tall

Now the "ribs" are set

All the gray stuff you see on the Glue-lams are the double saddles to carry the ribs

If you look close where the ribs meet the ridge, you can see the sandwich plates. It takes 4 per joint, 2 acute angled and two obtuse angled

These two pictures show the double saddles and the way they were made. each set has 2 buckets that are skewed and sloped relative to each other

They must weigh at least 200 pounds, and the flatter plates, made from 5/8" plate aren't light either

These are the sandwich plate sets

this view shows both plates and saddles. Old men volunteers such as Jim below grunted each and every one of these in place. Kudos to you guys!

This is where the all volunteer crew lives, right next to the site.

This is Jim Eberhart, a retired TWA employee. he now is in charge of the construction of this church