This week found me back in Maine, toiling with timbers. A friend/co-worker and I get to cut the timberframe joinery for a carriage house to be raised this summer. To cut costs we're doing all work outside, so we're relatively dependent on good weather.
On the left are 18 timbers that I have been working on. They will become 17 joists and 1 connector. At this point, they are planed close to the correct dimension and I am about to rough cut the joinery, in this case a soffit tenon. On the right are 4 rafters that Andy is working on as well as 4 finished rafters and 4 finished girts. The temperature first thing in the morning was 3 degrees above zero (Fahrenheit).
Closer up to see all the planer shavings
Near the end of the day, the joinery is complete with chamfering and holes for the 3/8" spikes that will hold the joists in the girts.
Hopefully there will be more work where this came from.
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Hopefully there will be more work where this came from.
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