Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Goats.
Timber Framing
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Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I rived up some pegs fron the log in the last pic I posted. Very straight grain. Pegs will return to the site to be used in the building.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Parallelogram ridge for a cruck frame with a 3/4 pitch roof.
Burnham
Woods walker
OMG, Dave...that makes my brain hurt to contemplate. My hat is off to you, sir.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Tajmahorsebarn is up! Rafters and roof coming next.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Hewing demo Sunday. A lot of people interested. Especially little kids. They had about 7x10²⁵ questions.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Roof on the Tajmahorsebarn.
stikine
Treehouser
Very cool Dave. Question for you, are the sills laying directly on the crushed aggregate and if so do you feel like they will last a bit before rotting? My climate conditions are brutal on untreated wood which is why I ask.
Burnham
Woods walker
It would be an issue here too, within only a few years. Like to hear your thoughts, Dave.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Black locust. It'll last two years longer than the stone is sitting on.
My wood boiler is sitting on two white pine 8x8s in the dirt with sawdust and bark pulled against them since 2014. I am surprised they've lasted this long, but they aren't ready to be replaced yet either.
My wood boiler is sitting on two white pine 8x8s in the dirt with sawdust and bark pulled against them since 2014. I am surprised they've lasted this long, but they aren't ready to be replaced yet either.
Burnham
Woods walker
OK...maybe...but not very likely in my climate.
Still, that's great. What the 'eff do I know about black locust
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Still, that's great. What the 'eff do I know about black locust
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pantheraba
More biners!!!
Black locust is some bodacious wood. We've got some fence at my father's house that a buddy and I put in 45 years ago. Some of it is rotten but some of it is still very viable. And it is simply in the dirt with rocks thrown in to stabilize it and packed back in with Georgia water-holding red clay.
Burnham
Woods walker
OK, I get that. But for a building of that quality, one that ought to be good for 200 years...I still would have reservations on doing it that way.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Job security. Actually, it was out of necessity. No money for a more substantial foundation, and ledge just a foot down. I expect it to outlast pt easily. It's really not much different than being on a dry laid foundation. If they pile it full of horse manure, it doesn't matter how high off the ground it is.
Burnham
Woods walker
Fair point, especially the latter.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Siding the Tajmahorsebarn. 1/2" sub layer with 1" outer. No gaps, no ship lapping.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Finished all of the 1/2" layer today. We have about half of the 1" layer done also. Should have it done next weekend, pending a replacement drive belt for the sawmill.
Burnham
Woods walker
Stunning work.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I'm trying to figure out how to live in it. Not sure the horse would appreciate it, however.
Marc-Antoine
TreeHouser
They are sooo picky !
ruel
TreeHouser
So the sheathing/ siding is 1/2" full cover, then 1" nailed right on top? Do you take care to offset boards so gaps don't line up?
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Yes, we're offsetting. We were going to ship lap, but didn't work out a system, so just went with the no fuss two layer system. It's got some advantages. If you have boards that might lose a knot over time, you won't have a big hole in the siding. There's no machining necessary. You can use random widths.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Getting down to the final details. We got more siding on, and installed my idea for a drip cap over the tack room door. It's a small detail, but makes a big difference.
