Timber Framed Barn Part 7 More Milling And Temporary Workshop

Right, morning everyone. So we're on the home stretch now for milling and for sketting her tree like she does every morning. So yeah, still got about another week's milling unfortunately. We're down to the last 30 logs or so. Is she coming? Yeah, oh she overtook us. Yeah, down to the last 30 logs I think. I average about three, sorry three, four or five logs a day. So I've got about a week's milling left still. So I've just got to push on, get that done because I don't want to have to do it while we're framing really. So yeah, it's another video of milling I'm afraid. Yeah, one more week and we'll have it done. Right, first little job to do is try and get this fuel tank on a bit better. The bottom bracket has snapped as well, little lug snapped off. So I'm just going to weld that back and then that should hold it until I get a top bracket sorted out. That'll hold it. Let's get this tank back on. That's got to sit in there. Let's just get that little pipe on the back there. Get that off there. Get that clip back on. Right, there we go, back on. So I've got one bracket on there, one snapped off but that's alright. We'll be back running. It's pretty well on there now. Aid from Aid Workshop, the guy who made the bearing rollers, the guide rollers for the band, has actually got one of these brackets he says. So might better get one of them off him. Yeah, let's get to work. Just come down there and get some water for the blade lubrication. Things are so difficult one-handed with a camera. This is the culvert pipe under our gate. So even though it hasn't rained for like, well ages really, nothing significant anyway, just dampness, this is spring water. This comes from a spring from the middle of this really boggy area a few fields away. So I found the water is really, really essential. Without it, the blade gets really clogged up with sawdust. So you've really got to make sure you've got plenty of good flowing water. If I fill this up, it lasts me all day. So it's quite a good system actually. I just had this laying around, it's an old fire extinguisher and yeah, it turns out to be basically exactly the right size for a full day's milling. But because of doing these repairs and I'm a bit late starting and it's a Saturday, I'll probably only do a couple of logs today, so one watering can will be enough. Another thing I want to do to this mill when I take it back down is weld some brackets and brushes on there or something, because you get all these bits of wood stuck on here, compressed in, and then before you know it, it's really difficult to push the thing along. And then you oil the tracks and then that makes even more sawdust stick to it. So yeah, little brushes there would be great, just to keep them free of sawdust that gets compressed into them. So honestly, the difference between having the sawdust on there and not is massive. I can barely push it when it's on there. So yeah, that's another design another timber, and look at the size of these sap pockets in here. It's just continuously squeezing out. Look at that, that is an incredible amount of sap. I've done this twice already, it just keeps coming out. Look at that, unbelievable, it just keeps coming out. That's gonna make that timber a bit questionable to be honest. I'll have to use it on something that's not too important, if at all. Bit annoying. Right, I think I'll call that a day for today. I've done four logs, but I've only put two decent timbers in the pile unfortunately. They just weren't sufficiently good timbers. Even the ones I put in the pile weren't the best. But I've cut a load of 2x4s for temporary building, and I've got two more questionable size logs. One there's alright, the other one's a bit small, but then I started getting into some quite big stuff, which adds its own level of difficulty. But yeah, I've got temporary building timbers and a couple in the pile. They're just slow and steady, one foot in front of the other every day, just keep pushing on. Eventually I'll get bit of ring shake here, and it goes all the way down through to the other end, so I'm gonna have to cut this section out of the middle. I'll just have that out, and just ditch that, and try and get some timbers out of there. It'll only be purlins or something. It's a shame, big waste of a lovely log. I'd get a really nice timber and a couple of purlins out of it, but this ring shake through here, that's a separated growth ring that travels through the whole log, so it's got no strength in it, so I'm gonna take it out. Yeah, I'll try and make the most of it. Hey everyone, it is the next day. It's been raining this morning, that's why I haven't done filming yet, but I've just got this big dobber on here, and I've got a big couple of big slabs cut off, which I'm gonna make into wind braces and one purlin, which are gonna get re-sawn there, and then I'm gonna try and get two 8x8s out of here. So we've got one with a heart in center, and one that's, you know, heart not in center, which isn't ideal for what I'm doing. It'd be better if they're consistent, but I'd just use it for something that's not as important. You know, it'd just be a waste not to get that nice timber out of that piece of wood there. So yeah, I've got it set up. Yeah, ready to make a cut. All right, just loading up another big boy. This is kind of getting to the sort of limit of the mill, really. It'll go a little bit bigger than this, but not a huge amount. Not because of the weight, just because of the height and the width. This is getting re-sawn into purlins. So, got that. So the first piece we took off is gonna go to 2x4s, re-sawn to 2x4s for the temporary structure. The second piece we took off will be two 100x150 purlins. Now this, along here, and this, there's a bit of waste, and then there's a 200x250 timber, and then we've got, might get one more purlin off to the side of it here, ideally. But I've got to try and flip this, I can't do it on my own. So this is a, this is a bit of a technique I use to do this, but I don't like doing it, because it's, if it, so it pings off, you can't get out the way of it really. So I'm not too fond of it, but I don't have much of a choice. It does work, just got to be very wary of something pinging off, and try and keep out the way now to a purlin. That's gonna be re-sawn now for two 2x4s for the temporary structure, and then this big boy down here is gonna be re-sawn to two purlins, and then those other bits can be re-sawn to 2x4s. So we're gonna get, I think, four or five, five 2x4s, three purlins, and eight by ten out of that, which is good going. it's not waste, it'll probably be a spacer in the stack at some point. And that's two by four for the temporary building, and that's another two by four for the temporary building. Right, load up another one. These are 2x4s, and that's purlin, two purlins. Waste. Ah, dearie me. I'll get those two purlins in the stack, and then it's re-sawn some more 2x4s. Right, morning everyone. So it is a nice day. We had a pretty decent sized storm for the last few days, and I haven't been able to do a lot. Ground's still really wet, so I can't carry on milling even though I'd like to, but what I can do is get the temporary building started. So that's what I'm gonna do today. It's just some basic 2x4 frame with a polytunnel plastic over it for us to work under, because we can't do marking and stuff like that on timbers that are soaking wet and working in the rain, and I can't afford to pay people to sit around if it's raining, so we've got to build this building to work under. There's no way round it. We've got to have it. So that's what we're gonna do today. Get that done, hopefully. So now that we've had a load of rain, obviously I've not got drainage in the back there yet, so that's gonna change things a lot. But it seems like I've got a slightly low spot on the back here, so I just need to sort that out quickly before I enclose it all. It's just gonna be a pain working in that. Like I say, it's all just running off this field at the moment because the drainage isn't in. Right, that's got it to start to drain at least. Yeah, we're getting somewhere. We'll see if that dries it out. I'll keep doing that as and when the puddles form and hopefully we'll get it flat then, using the water. Right, that's draining now. I can see it flowing down the track still, and it's looking drier, so hopefully that's worked. Right, start making this frame. So I've got a little drawing here of what we're gonna make. So that's it. It's got about three metres headroom in the middle, two on the edges. Quite low profile because it's quite a windy site, but it should be enough for us to work under at least. Right, so it's just screwed together end grain, obviously not strong, and it's got no lateral support. So I've got some plywood plates. This is leftover plywood from the forms and the screws that I took out of the forms. I'm trying to reuse everything. You know, I don't want this building to be a costly thing because it's all got to come apart. I'm not going to glue it because I want to be able to take it all apart and reuse all this stuff. Right, I've got them up on a couple of stands just so I can get to the backsides to get another plate on them because they're obviously quite I got this frame up on my own and then I managed to get these other four frames done before it started raining, but it's raining now and it's forecast to be basically pissing it down all day today, so I'm not going to do much filming. I just need to get these up. I've got some help coming. I'm just going to put them up by hand quickly and get out of the rain because it's really cold and wet and miserable and horrible. I'm just going to to get that stood up. It's not finished yet. There's loads left to do. I was hoping to have it done for this video, but the last two days it's rained so much. It rained more in the last couple of days than it rained for all of December, January and February, so I haven't been able to get out here. Also, I ended up putting a big spike of wood through my knuckle that's now gone a bit infected, so that's really hurting. I can barely bend my finger. So yeah, I'm going to plod along with this slowly and steadily and try and work around my bad finger, but yeah, it's a bit of a hindrance because this needs to be covered on Tuesday, so a bit under pressure, but we'll get it done. I'm going to get out here, fill in, put some bits across, ready to stretch the polytunnel plastic over it and then we're going to start framing. As of Tuesday, we're going to get timbers in there, get set up and then we're going to start doing the timber frame. So yeah, it's all going ahead. All right, but I'm going to conclude this video and then we'll carry on next week. Yeah, I hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.