Tom Howell

Timber Frame Assembly and Raising

Prior stage: Floor Sequence One Next stage: Roof Assembly
29 Oct: New standard view.
New viewpoint is south and east of the original viewpoint, and somewhat lower in elevation.
Nice weather, huh?
29 Oct: The standard view.
Looks like I'l have to find another viewpoint. I can't get it all in, even in two shots.
28 Oct: A view to the south..
Not our usual viewpoint, but the frame is mostly up. We're preparing to fly in the west bent
girt supporting the upper floor. The joists aren't in the upper floor, and the middle bay
plate in the north wall and the ridge over the entrance are laying in the foreground.
Later, as it was getting dark, we put in those floor joists.
26 Oct: Finally, some standing timber: 'G' wall where front door goes..
It's only three pieces of wood, but that's the 'G' wall standing where the front door will be.
Bay one of the 'F' wall is together and pegged.    Not shown here; bay three of the 'F' wall is also ready to pick up.
22 Oct: Upper floor installed; some of north 'F' wall.
Upper floor installed; bay one of north wall 'F' in place, but not assembled.
21 Oct: Two thirds of upper floor.
Storage room and landing floor timbers assembled and pegged.  
19 Oct: Wall B.assembled and pegged.
B wall is together, as square as it's going to get, and pegged.     Upper floor started.
Thu 18 October, B wall is together, but still needs to be pulled square and pegged.     It was too dark to take pictures. My apologies.
14 Oct: South wall.assembled and pegged.
After two days in the rain: South wall completely assembled.
Mon 12 October, we "dry fit" all the joints that will go together with the help of the crane.     In the process, we also moved two of the south wall posts and the two parts of the south wall top plate down onto the dance floor joists.     For Tuesday, we'll only have to move down two big, heavy posts.     The remaining parts of the south wall are smaller and lighter.     We should have the south wall assembled and pegged by Tuesday night - bar heavy rain.
 
Installed: 26 Nov 2009; Last Modified: 12 Dec 2009