The Good Life Timber Frame

[Music] look at this beautiful sawmill lumber we've got here on this trailer in less than three or four days we're going to turn this into this so what we're doing right now on the job site is we just got our strings pulled we're putting up our simpson post holders dad right now is leveling the holder to the string which is actually the inside of the post holder we're leveling to the string that way when that post comes down it's right dead on the side of string we're doing everything by what the county code requires that's using these uh simpson post holders and a 5 8 bolt drilling down we're using a wedge anchor but we're going one step ahead and we're using an epoxy in the hole with the wedge anchor bolt this right here is just going to make it last forever folks [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] we got our first bed up today what we've done if you can pan in close we drilled a hole all the way through the post put a half inch carriage head galvanized bolt in there so no rust and i know you'll see in in other pictures coming up on our video of fielding this down here drilling the holes making everything work but we like to always put our braces on and all do we have bolts in here but these plates have little holes on the side for screws so on each side we've got four three and a half inch t25 screws in there to hold it together this is eight foot tall this will help folks whenever having videos like this helps a lot of people to know heights this is eight feet when we get continue going we'll be going up nearly about three foot taller off the center of this beam here for the roof structure so it's gonna be a really nice structure also as you can already see how far we are from the sides when we have these nice overhangs the is going to be able to flow [Music] [Music] perfectly [Music] [Music] so [Music] so so so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] we've got a beautiful morning here in the good life city it's nice and cooled outside we've got so far is everything's ready except for our leather i want you to take a look at our knee braces these are here for support when it comes to shaking this way and our knee braces shaking the other direction these knee braces are up higher so you don't hit your head these are lower because that's what's giving the strength in this direction if you can see up here we've got our king post and we've also got a brace from the king post uh all the way up to our ridge beam all of our rafters up everything fit in these pockets so well that we cut this project is going super smooth and it's going to be a beautiful build when we get done with it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is how we do it at old south barns with the final touches this project is complete and we'll move on to our next timber framing project and we invite you to watch us here on youtube and follow us on facebook at old south barnes

Channel: Old South Barns

Views: 142,841

Keywords: timber frame, barn builders, rough cut sawmill beams, yard buildings, cook sheds, outside kitchens, she sheds, how to build timber frame structures, how to build using heavy wood beams, how to build a wooden pavilion

Id: GKsCTMNQHo4

Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 10 2020