Timber Framed Barn Part 9 Wall Frames Complete

Hey everyone, it is a new day and a new video. The last video we made this beast of a wall frame, which is actually the smallest one. And in this video, we're gonna do the next wall frame. So this is the outside on the left of the building. When you look at the plan, left-hand wall. And the next one we're doing is the middle wall. That these two, this wall and the next wall will have a piece between them that ties them together, if that makes sense. You'll see on the plan. Yeah, a few of the scarves have been done for that top plate already. So we've gotta get five posts lined up and I've got a big pile of braces to get through. I ran out of brace material in four inch, which is what these are. So we're gonna put in some curvy organic ones as well. So I'm gonna start making them while the boys lay out the posts and get everything sorted out down there. All right, get to work. All right, so same as before really, making the braces, but they're just quite a bit bigger than the last ones. See there, well, nearly as tall as me, which isn't that tall. Yeah, so I'm making them while Howard's laying up the top plate for the other wall. And then everyone's gonna start lifting the posts on in a minute. And then we've gotta try and figure out what we're gonna do with these curved braces. Is they're gonna be a bit awkward, but I think they're gonna look nice. So I think we're gonna push, persist with it. Three down. So while everyone's laying up those posts, I'm just gonna start getting one of these curved braces cleaned up a little bit. Just wanna do one for now and make sure they look right. And then we can go from there basically. But I was running out of big material to do the knee braces out of the other style from the template. So I thought let's try and add a bit of organic look to it. Cause I like both. I like the square timbers, but also like the round timbers. As I'm sure viewers of this channel will know. So it's gonna be a bit of a pain, take a bit more time, but I think we're gonna try and make some of these curved ones work for the upstairs. Right, got that cleaned up enough so that we can get an idea of what it's gonna look like. Don't wanna spend too much time on it in case we decided it didn't look right. And I've got most of the braces made. Nice long braces, it's what we make. And then there's the curved braces. Just cleaned up. We're gonna have to do a bit of messing around to get fitted. And I got to go early today cause I've got to get the geese in cause Dot's got to go on a course. And then we'll resume tomorrow. Got to bring some timbers, trailer full of timbers. And yeah, then we'll really be rolling with this frame as of tomorrow. All right, low range. Make sure we're in. All right, let's do it. Here we go, ready? All right, arrived safely with another trailer load of logs. We've got to offload them. After I left last night, the guys got the tenons done on the long posts and the mortises, they did well. And yeah, so just fitting them up. And then we've got to do one scarf joint on the end and then start laying up the other wall plate as well. Yeah, we're going ahead. Yeah, it's a bit dark in here today. It's, as you've seen, it's a pretty miserable day out. So yeah, we'll have a shuffle around with some vehicles, get some timbers unloaded, and yeah, be doing some braces on that wall frame today. She's tight. Yeah, let's get the ratchet on it. We're just laying up some of these curved braces that are going to be a bit more of a pain to do, but I think they're going to look nice if we can get them to fit, which we will. Between us, we'll manage to do this. I've successfully done curved and round wood stuff before, as I'm sure you've seen. But I just want to make sure it looks right with the other ones that are squared off. So we're going to lay them up where they're going to sit and then fly the drone over the top and see what it looks like. Check it looks all right. If it looks all right, we'll get them to work. So we're just using the drone to check what these braces look like. And so we just clamped them from underneath. I just wanted to make sure they didn't look too odd with the other ones, the square ones. And I think they look quite cool, to be honest, especially that one there with a nice curve to it. So yeah, I think we're going to go with it. I don't think it looks wrong at all to have them different on each side. I think it looks quite nice. I think it's artistic. So yeah, we're going to go with that because I quite like it. All right, we're going to scribe them up and start doing them today. What are you up to there, Steve? Oh, I'm just scribing in these braces. Scribing the big braces. Yeah, yeah, we've got a bit of that. So, we have to play the cheers a bit, that's what you want. A lot to do, so, yeah. Cool. I hope to get them cut today as well. Yeah, I think we can do it, even though it's Friday. Room on these. Nice. Right, so we're doing the awkward scribe of a curvy brace. So I was just putting some flat spots on it, just so- Flat spot on your curvy brace? Yeah, just, mostly just so we can see the lines on it. And then we blend that in afterwards. That makes our life easier. And this one- It's quite square, isn't it? It's pretty square. That's the other beauty of having these. Level reference lines. Yeah. On this face for the top plate. Yeah. Because you know your posts are coming into it and your braces, so. Yeah, so it's level. Hopefully then, at a couple of points, you might find a flat spot. This is a bit wet, so it might be a bit for marking, might have to knife it through. Getting in this plane is a bit of a guess. Well, yeah, on the back edge, it doesn't matter really. It's not saying it matters, but- You know, even if it's a relatively loose fit on the back, it's not doing anything, is it? Yeah, well, I wouldn't know that when we test fit them, if they don't go all the way up, and you can just knock the back off. Knock the back off, yeah. Because the timber's going to shrink anyway, so. Yeah. How many carpenters did you take to drive the round hood? Exactly. Yeah. Nice. There's a lot of experience in that one wind brace. Right, that, we've got a nib. Right, we are ready to strip down and start mortising. So, I was just filming Howard laying out that other round mortise. Probably looks like I don't really do anything in these videos, but it's because every time we see something, it's because I'm filming it. But I am doing stuff in between, I promise. Not as much as the other guys, because I've got to film. But, yeah, so we're going to strip this all down, and then it's mortises, and then fitting, so. Good shot. There it is. Beautiful. Just needed a bit of fettling. That is going to look really nice. And that's pretty good, yeah. So, it's Monday morning. Just about to go off to work, and we've got our second little lamb's just come out, popped out, all on its own. Good mum. So, we're going to put him in a little pen now, under the panels. Here's the first one we had. About three days old now. The little boy lamb. So, yeah, we'll get another one in this pen. Keeps them safe from the fox and the badgers. All right, we're going to go and grab this lamb. Oh, hope we've got a girl, little, little you lamb. Come on then, let me grab her. Come on then. Come on, be a good mum. Come on. Come on, good girl. She's over there, look. There she is, look. There she is. He, it's a he, is it? There we go. Safe and sound, look. Oh, aren't you lovely? Aren't you a lovely little creature? All right, that's two sheep down, or two lambs down, five to go. But I have got to get off to the barn, do some timber framing. Hey, it's cold this morning. All right, we're here, Monday morning, and today's goal is to get this wall framed on. So, one scarf joint to do down the bottom, and then a couple of fit ups, and then that'll be done. Let's just leave it, we'll just work our way along. So, we might as well start from this end, pull it up, check it. Three, four, five there. Is it good on its string line? Should we clamp the wall plate to the trestles for now, just while we get them in? Most likely it will go that way. Yeah, okay. We can check that after. Okay? Yeah, so I'll lift that. Cool. All right, so the guys are just doing a three, four, five to square up this post. That's a way of squaring things up without a square. You measure three meters one way, four another, and if you've got five in the last direction, it's a perfect triangle. So, we've got, yeah, they're gonna level up that first post, and then we can measure the other ones off of it. So, here is the offset markings to drill to. So, normally I'd have a center point where I've done it before. Now I just move the drill to the side, but Howard's got his special tool that offsets them. Yeah, we'll just make one to be honest. Yeah, it's quite a simple thing. What's the offset? About four mil? Three mil. And when you do them, you don't go like 90 degrees back. You try and follow the angle of the brace as well. Yeah, so it's, normally it would be to the shoulder. Yeah. Yeah, so we'd wanna pull it in, but with braces, we're doing it to the shoulder in a fraction of a turn. Pull it in and down a little bit. And down towards it, yeah. Steve's done another fantastic job on the scarf joint. Sharp, isn't it? I've got to shoot off now, and go and get some timber loaded on the trailer, and I've got to re-saw a couple of timbers to bring some stuff over. I think they'll probably manage without me. Right. Right, I'm gonna shoot off, Howard, and go and get some timbers loaded up. Yeah, all right, what's up? So, got me a trailer loaded up with some timbers. These are mostly floor joists, not joists, floor beams, and a couple of eight by eights. But the ground's really wet, so there's a bit of a battle with this. Anyway, I can do it. I've got to put the trailer here, and drive on as many bits of wood over there as I can. Yeah, get in there. Take them in the morning. Right, back for another day. So, Steve just laying out the other curved brace, scrubbing it. Nye looks like he's cutting out tenons, and Howard is working on the scarf joint for the other wall plate, getting ready to do the other wall plate. So, we get that wall frame done today, and then start this other one. So, I've got to catch up with me filming, and then I'm gonna date him out the next timber Howard needs, and then he's start making some more braces. You all right, Steve? Yeah, not too bad. I'm gonna go with these funky braces. Yeah, of course, you've done that without making it a flat spot. Yeah, a bit of guesswork, a bit of an experiment. Yeah. But yeah, you just have to eye it through, and sort of sketch it in, really. As if it's been sliced through. Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be. Cool. It's just that back edge, isn't it? It's literally just on that step, isn't it? You can do it like a purse type of fit, can't you? Yeah, it's looking quite good. Yeah, it just needs a little fluff off this back. I left the line on there, just to be sure. Might be the timber a bit wiggly. A little bit, but yeah, I think it's just Steve's just used the saw to do a kerf cut, just to show him this back edge is just literally just touching, so now he's got a mark to chisel that off, and it'll sit nice and flat. Push. Yeah, that's pretty good. That is looking really good, Steve. Yeah, really nice fit. Really, really nice fit. All right, wall frame two is complete, with the curvy braces and the five, it's five metres tall. It doesn't look it when it's laid down, but it is, it's five metres tall. So Steve and I have finished up this end, the curves, so we're just having to tidy up, and then I'll show you from the drone above, get some better shots. Yeah, looking cool. Still some data marks and some labelling marks to do, and some peg holes to drill, but other than that, we're done. It's not gonna go back together now, so that's why I'm showing it to you. Yeah, lovely curvy braces. Steve is just putting some marks on. So these are data marks, that we can refer back to, because one of these frames, the first one we did, is actually shorter, and it sits on pillars that are a bit taller, so we need a reference point to mark everything from, so that's what that is. It's a reference to work from. And then I think you've been marking some stuff. Is this curly, this frame, is that right? So yeah, this frame is what they call curly, so three gouge chisel marks. So yeah, this is curly number three. And flag, yeah. So it's curly three, and then flag, which means it's on this to the right, basically, yeah. Yeah, cool. That's wall frame number two complete. In the first video, we worked on wall frame one, which is that one there, and the model, and this one is wall frame two, which is the one just to the right of it, and then shortly, we shall be starting wall frame three, on the right-hand side there. Thought we'd just quickly run over the model, show the model, just so it's clear what it is, because when it's all laid down like this, it's kind of hard to keep track of what everything is. But yeah, we've got wall frame one, wall frame two, and wall frame three. So the next task is to start wall frame number three. All right, morning, everyone. So start of a new frame. That frame's done, so we're gonna take two of the posts off of it, so it's not in the way. Everyone's gonna probably start laying them up, and I'm gonna start getting the braces cut out, because I've become the main brace man. So yeah, gonna get to work and have a wall frame. Yeah. It's in. Oh! Yeah. Wiggle. All right, little bit of an issue, so one of these slabs that I need for one of the braces just got a bit too much sapwood on it, and I just don't think it's gonna be structurally that great. So I'm gonna have to leave early, go and mill another curved wiggly one. And yeah, I'll have to do that. So yeah. So now there's gonna be another wiggly one, another curved one on this wall instead. So I'm gonna get my trailer unloaded, and then I'm gonna go and mill another curved one. There we go. All right, another day. So I've just come back with this that I milled last night. So Steve just scribed them, and now everyone's cutting stuff out. Nye's on the mortiser. I'm just catching up with the filming, and I'll probably go cleaning out the mortises, because that's the apprentice job, and I'm the apprentice around here. All right, we've had a big mortising and tenon cleaning up session, and I think we're ready to do our first test fit. Steve's just gone around drilling all of the peg holes. We've all tested all the braces and all the mortises. And yeah, ready to do our first fit. And this is the last wall frame. Is it? I think it's just a little bit too tight. Yeah, a little bit. Tough bit of grain as well. You all right? Yeah. It's definitely long on these nibs, I think. How are you getting on, Steve? Is it fitting for you? Yeah, I think I'm nearly there. Dream, Steve. Fertile, fitted, mould skin. Howard and Steve are just reassembling the two posts for wall frame two that we started at the start of this video. We thought it'd be nice to have them both assembled. But yeah, wall frame three is done now. So that's a pretty pivotal point in this build, really, because that's the three main wall frames are complete. So from this point onwards, we need to basically take out all of the posts and then reassemble them, so to do the cross frames, because now the long frames are done. So now we need to reassemble it all in a way in which we can lay out the cross frames or the frames that support the floor. So there's five more layups left to do and 20-something-odd braces. And then there's still five trusses to do after that. So we've definitely got our work cut out for us, but it's going to plan. It's going really well. I'm really happy with the quality of work. And we all seem to be working really well together. And yeah, I can't really complain. It's just all going very, very smooth. And I think you'll agree that it's just looking absolutely great. So that's going to conclude this video. I hope you enjoyed it. And thanks for watching.