Dig Post Holes and Prepare Footings

frankie and i divide and conquer he starts prepping to put in the post while i'm hanging the joist hangers so frankie's leveled the sill plate out using the railroad jack to lift it up yep then he'll dig down get his post in and measure down to actually insert the post right take the top surface off because the rest of it should be compacted from the rain and stuff that comes off the roof up here it's sand oh yeah we're good the new deck framing is not actually tied to the house this deck will sit next to the house but not be physically connected to it as soon as we connect the deck to the house then we've opened up a whole new