Timber Framed Barn Part 18 Main Roof Purlins

Right, good morning everyone. So, it's been a couple of weeks since I've done a video. Before, at the end of the last video, we had all the trusses up. Sam did a lot of joinery on these purlins. Did a nice job. Did like the half lapping and stuff. And we put them up quickly. But Sam's gone now for a bit. He needed to go back to work. But I didn't get that on film, unfortunately. I've run all of my bracketry I need off to the galvanizers and the water wheel. That's still progressing. And also gone and picked up all the roofing as well. It's another thing I've been doing. But yeah, last night, finally got to doing the joinery on another run of them. I got my friend Raf here. He's helping out and working on his camper van at the same time. So he's gonna give me a bit of a hand. And we're gonna put up another run of purlins this morning. And then we'll go in the workshop, make another run, put them up, make another run, put them up and so on. So yeah, gonna get back to work. The weather's been crap. Been really difficult to get going. Yeah, it's just been really difficult. It's been the wettest summer I've ever known. But yeah, get these purlins in and then we'll go and get the bracketry and then we'll start putting up some of the big timbers going down there for those roof as well. Yeah, all right, let's get to work. So yeah, quite a lot of work in them because they have to terminate at each point because I haven't got bits of timber long enough. Can't mill bits of timber long enough to go between two. So each one has a half lap on it and then extends out for the overhang. Yeah, it's quite a bit of work in just one row. Raf's here working on his camper van for a bit, using the workshop. Yeah, so I've got all the roofing here. It's green roofing sheets. They're fiber cement, so it's quite heavy. And normally that wouldn't be a big deal getting something like that, you know, because you just get it delivered and the lorry would crane it off. But because of my access here, it's so tight, I had to trailer it all here and hand offload it. So me, Raf and Dot hand offloaded it and there's, you know, hundreds of sheets there. So yeah, that's another thing that's happened as well. So that's all here now, I'm ready to go. All right, let's get these up. Number two, it is. And it's the right way around. Yeah. Just get it rested on that tie beam for now. Raf, that's it. Let me get myself in position a bit. Yeah, get a clamp on it as soon as you can, Lee. Oh, you haven't got a clamp, have you? Yeah. Mine's going to go if it's straight. There we go, mine's going. Mine's in too. It does, yeah, good. That's what I need this way. Okay. Yeah, okay. It's actually really nice. Let me give this a tap. Take two. All right, hold on. To me. There, that's it. Okay. Do you want a mallet? It's going to need to knock to me a little bit. Yeah, and again. And again, if you can. That's about it there. Yeah. Okay, so yeah, this is what we're making. Sam did this drawing. I took a few measurements from a few places and these are all so close that it's not worth measuring them each time because that's actually quite a lot of work to get up there and you've got to have two people. So I'm just making them all to these sizes and then there's a little bit of adjustment when we're up there. So half-laps are a great joint. The problem is people often use them incorrectly. So what we're doing at the moment is I'm doing half-laps with 100. So the actual outside of the timbers is 200 mil. So there'll be like sitting in 200 mil like this. And then the half-laps 130. And then we've got 35 here and 35 here. And so that means that the weight is going down onto an edge, 35 mil edge, which is the entire thickness of the timber. Now, you'll often see people take the half-lap too far over. And if you do that, then, well, it would obviously in this case, it'd have to go around there. If you do that, then you've literally taken half of the diameter of your timber away and you're now resting on this little half-lap ledge. So whenever you do half-laps, you have to make sure, something I see often on like round wood buildings is the half-lap extends over the edge of the timber, but it has to sit on the ledge back and the half-lap itself needs to happen within that timber. So this is timber number one, which is gonna be at the front. And this is left and this is right. And that way up. So that end is gonna have nothing on it, it's the overhang. And this end wants a half-lap with the cutout on top so the next one rests on it. So that's one day, the thickness of the timber, the width, sorry, 150. So we go 75, 75. So this is the bottom piece. So we're removing this piece here. All right, hey everyone, so another day. And yesterday you watched me make another row of purlins, all the half-laps on them. And I'm gonna grab Raf, cause the sun's out, it's a pretty nice day to grab Raf. And we'll chuck another row of purlins up, interrupt his van building and chuck them up. And then I'll get them all fixed down and everything and then repeat the process loads more times. And that's just what I'm doing now for a while till I get all my bracketry back from the galvanizers. Ready? Yeah, like that, I think. Is that right? No, yeah. You got the arrow there? Yeah, that's it. Oh, sorry, it fell off the thing. Oh, it's stuck on the ladder. It's up there. Let's get up there. Yeah. All right, you ready? Looks like it needs to knock over a touch. Knock over? It's tight on this side. Yeah, it's a bit uneven then, it's touching on that edge. I think it will go, it's just because of the bend in the timber probably. Let me get your clamp. Hit it from the back there. I don't know, it's quite far out. Go on, it'll go. It went. It did. It is going. Crushing it a bit, but it is going. Yeah, go on. There she goes. There we go. Oh, that's a nice tight fit. Yeah, good. One down. To me, to me, to me, to me. There we go. Nice fit. We're in. Doc, do you think you can pass Rafa Mallet? Cool. There we go, perfect. It's in. Jammed in. Lift it, lift it. Good. Yeah, I crushed my finger between it. To you a touch. To me. Twist there. Just about in it. All right, let me just get this in. Yeah, it needs to come to me, unfortunately. Go on, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming. Keep coming, hold on. This clamp's in the way, yeah, go on. Yeah, keep coming. Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming. Keep coming, keep coming. That's it. I'm just in the trusty Land Rover. So I've just finished the purlins for that section of roofing. So they're stacked there waiting for Raf. Raf's bank holiday Monday today. Raf's back tomorrow evening, so I'm gonna wait and put them up with him. That gets that section of roof purlins done. I'm just about to go and hook up my trailer over there and go and get some timbers down from the top and get ready, because I'm probably gonna pick up the brackets for the big timbers that go down there. It's probably where I'm gonna start next, but I thought, while it's there, I don't like to make too much noise. I don't like to make too much noise on a bank holiday or a Sunday or whatever, so I tend to just do little odd things like this, workshop stuff or move some timbers about. Yeah, this is gonna be nice and fun, because I'm gonna have to reverse this trailer all the way up the track, because otherwise I'm not gonna be able to turn it round. I'll have to go all the way out about a mile and a half of off-road track and then turn it round and then come all the way back down again, or I can just reverse it up just our bit of track. Yeah, it's gonna be a laugh. All right, and we're in place. Didn't even have to go forwards once. Pretty good at reversing trailers, I have to say. All right, morning, everyone. Welcome to a messy workshop. Bit of an excuse, I've been busy. But yeah, these here I cut up last night and planed. These are all the off-cuts of doing the purlins. All the purlins are done joinery-wise. Just need to fit them, so I'm waiting for Raf to get back. He's gone away for the weekend. But yeah, these are all the off-cuts from them. I'm gonna turn these into blocks which sit behind the purlins, because the purlins, you'll notice, are quite tall. And they only sit in small pockets. And the way the roof works is, you know, they're sat like that on the trusses in just like inch-thick pockets. And obviously, the weight of the roof is actually trying to lift these and pull these out of those pockets. And although I think they would be absolutely fine, I think over time, eventually, they might start to slowly lift out. You know, we're in a very windy area. The roof could get heavy with snow. And all of that is trying to lever those out because they're quite tall. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna make these blocks which sit behind those. And, you know, as the weight gets applied to them and they're trying to pull out, they just rest against these blocks. And it uses these off-cuts. So that's what I'm gonna make now. I've got a plan in my head. And, you know, I need 20 of them for that side. And it just worked out. That's about what I had in off-cuts. Yeah, let's make them. So I got all my timbers moved yesterday on the trailer. Everything that's up there, anyway. 50 mil there. Actually, let's make sure we're on the right side if there's anything to cut off. Yeah, I wouldn't mind cutting these splits out. So that works, yeah. So yeah, I got all those timbers moved yesterday on the trailer, which I filmed. And I was hoping, the reason I did that is because I wanted my trailer free. Because I was hoping I was gonna be going to get my galvanized parts and brackets for the waterwheel and for the barn. Bracketry for some of the barn. But it's not coming now this week. Well, it is, but I'm gonna be getting it like Friday. So yeah, that's changed the plans a little bit. But yeah, I'll be going and doing the waterwheel installation at the end of this month at some point. And yeah, I need those brackets now to really move to the next phase of either doing the lean-to or the slanted roof behind the main section of the barn. So I'm just trying to get by with stuff to do at the moment until I get those parts back. Then we can carry on doing the frame, major frame building. So we're gonna cut this out. This'll be our block. Just giving these a bit of a coat of linseed oil. Not because I am too bothered about the finish because the stuff's all gonna sit out in the weather and it's all gonna go gray anyway. But it's mostly because there's quite a lot of end grain. So this is end grain and then this diagonal cut contains partial end grain as well. And it's gonna be sat on wet wood. And this is already green wood. And if I stick these up on the roof and we get a really hot cooking day, these are all gonna split. They've started doing marginally there. But getting a load of oil on the ends of these should slow the drying down so that if it does get hot, hopefully they won't split too much. Ideally something like this would be made from dry wood but I haven't got any dry wood. Not to make these out of anyway. But this will help it a lot. Because this face here, this face here and these faces here will dry at 10 times the rate of the side faces like this face. And that's what causes the splitting and cracking. So this should block that moisture from evaporating off the end grain too quickly. There we go. That's them done. So let them dry. Hopefully fit the last two lengths of purlins tomorrow and then get onto these the day after. All right, successfully got the timbers unloaded. So I need two more of these and then I need two more of the long ones which I've stacked up over here for now. And then that's all the eight by eights milled then. So I've got a couple of days of milling left still. Put rafts back and we're just gonna finish putting up the purlins. So we've got one section on one row and then one more row to do. But before then, we've gotta get that lifting contraption down from up there before we can get the last row in. All right, you ready, Raph? Nice one. It's upside down, right? Are we? Yeah. We're not doing very well today. All right, just rest it on there, mate. Yeah, okay. Can you just hold it there a sec? Fine, it should come down. You clamped, yeah? Yeah, that looks good, doesn't it? Well done, yeah. Yeah, nice. All right, so that is the second to last row. So our job now is to get this big lifting contraption down because as you can see there, we can't actually get that next row in without getting that down. And I really need that down there for completing the rest of the frame. So we're gonna get that down and then stick the next row up, which is all cut and ready. Oh yeah, fix this down as well, but that doesn't take too long. So yeah, me and Raph managed to get this down. I didn't film it because it's just the two of us and something like that can go wrong very quickly if you're not paying attention. So I've got it in the tractor bucket and I'm just gonna lower it off and leave it popped up here, hopefully. Nice one. Louie? Yeah. You okay? Too what? What, you got a gap at the bottom? How big? We can curve it though, can we? We can just do two or three. You got that for a second while I just get this mallet. As long as we can curve it, I'd rather do that and take it down. Right, let me get that in there a bit. Right, won't go too mad. Should try and tap it to you as well. Will it go at all? Is it bottomed out, it's tight at the top? Yeah, can you do a curve then? So Raph is just doing a bit of a curve cut, got a bit of a gap at the bottom and not a gap at the top, which is actually quite handy because it's easy enough to fix when it's like that. So Raph has just done a little curve cut in there. So I'm gonna tap the end to him, try and close up this gap. Right, I'll try and get it to you, mate. Ready? Yeah? Are you happy to just keep persisting on? It's easier doing it like that than just take it down, I think, from this point. Don't know why it's ended up like that, but nevermind. You ready, mate? To you. Cool. All right, that is the purlins done. And we've got the contraption off of here, which is nice, because we get a real sense for it now in here. And it just starts to close it in a little bit, which is nice. So it doesn't look like much to do, but there's so much work in them because there's thickness in them on all sides and table sawing them and then all the joinery and getting them in place, and they're quite heavy. So it's a good job done. Well pleased with that. So tomorrow I'll get those blocks on the back of the two top rails, because we're not putting them on the bottom ones. And then that'll be the purlins done. Then we'll move on to getting some big timbers in that side. Right, I'm actually back to work. I had to stop for a bit there because it just got too wet and windy and slippery. I couldn't film, couldn't do anything. So we're back to work though. It's still pretty windy for the drone though. So just get the final of these blocks on and then that's us done with this. Keen to start something new. Yeah, it was absolutely brutal this morning. That wasn't too loud. Might have to move over for this one. Yeah. Well, despite the very, very wet and windy morning I've had, I'm absolutely soaked. Had to stop work and wait for a bit because it just got too windy and slippery and rainy up here, but got it done. Got all the purlins up, got all the blocks in and it's really starting to feel like a enclosed space now. You know, more so though than it did before at least. So yeah, I finally got the actual okay to go and get those brackets tomorrow now. They're all galvanized and painted. And so that's the next video now where we'll be getting this section of roofing in using that little lifting contraption. So I am really proud of this look. Despite the fact the timbers do have a bit of a wobble to them, they all line up really well. If you sight down them, they really do line up. It looks nice and straight from down here. They say there's a little bit of a wobble on some of them in that direction because they weren't straight to start with but they look really flat from on top. All right, that's going to conclude the video. Hopefully I'll get videos out a bit more regular. So I'm going to do that roof. That'll be the next thing. And then we'll be doing a water wheel, I think, installation. So yeah, hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching.