Timber Framed Barn Part 19 Finishing the framing

Hey everyone, it is a Monday morning and just before Raf left we got a couple of three timbers I had milled. I've still got a few more left to mill but he helped me put those up on the barn and I've got my brackets back from the galvanizers and powder coaters and so in this video we're going to get the at least the five big timbers up that are on the slanted pitched roof on the barn. So yeah that's the plan so let's get to work. Right so we're up on the top of the barn and so we've got five main support timbers that go from these here down to there and they actually act as braces to some degree to these as part of the design and they sit on metal brackets because I didn't want to get everything too busy up here because we've already got a tenon going in here and then on the other side you know this is bolted through so I didn't want to get too busy up here so we've got brackets that bolt on this where there's nothing happening. Here's the brackets here, just come back from being galvanized and powder coated. The only thing is is that I thought I'd asked for them in dark grey but they've sort of come out as a blue colour. It doesn't matter because they're mostly going to be hidden in like internal walls and things but yeah I thought they were going to be dark grey but they're sort of more dark blue. I think it's something to do with the screen colour difference or something. Yeah they look cool. So yeah I'm going to get them fixed up. I've also made a template so this here is a template made out of something light which I could fit across over there and it's pretty basic woodwork. It's just a bird's mouth you know an offcut so I'm going to draw around that, make this timber and then we should try and lift it in and sit it on one of those brackets. Right that is a great fit. So that blade sits in that slot, it's a nice tight fit. This is perfect, well pleased with that. Okay this is quite exciting now for me, a lot of work got to this stage, making these brackets and sending them all off everything. I've got one That's heavy. There we go, right hold on to it for me because it could slide. I need to hit it in or slide it in. All right ready, pull it, it goes that way. Ah yes that was good. Just walked into the workshop and there was a bat on the door. Hey big boy, be a bit careful around bats because they can carry rabies. There's no reason to be scared of them. So I'm just going to help this little guy find a safer place because he was sat on there. So I've made him a little cave in there, just sat in there look. So hopefully he'll wake up a bit later on and be back to his self because I disturbed his sleep when I opened the workshop door. Yeah he's fast asleep in that woodpile now, should be safe there. So I got another one fitted yesterday afternoon. So we've got two in now, take you up there. Yeah that bat was an interesting start to the day. So I got another one fitted yesterday afternoon, so that's two done now. So we'll just carry on, I've got one more up here ready to go and then I need to mill two more. Unfortunately I'll only get this one more done today and then go and get the mill set up. I've got other 8x8's milled but not long enough so I'm gonna have to mill some. The joinery's nice and tight, happy with it, really good tight joinery. Brackets fit lovely, nice tight fit. I haven't put these bolts through here yet but I can do that anytime, no brush to do that. Yeah let's get another one in. You ready dear? Just help me lift it on there. Stay there, I'm gonna try and slide it over. Right so that is the three fitted and all the brackets line up really well, so that's cool. So yeah that's the only three timbers I've got that are long enough. So I'm gonna have to go and do some milling now which throws me off a little bit but I knew it was gonna happen. Hey everyone, so back to work on these. I had family visiting, in fact still got family here visiting so I got a bit of help today from Kieran and we got another one of these in yesterday. So me and Dot did these three, me and Kieran did one yesterday and we're about to put the last one in. We've just offered up the template that I made up to it and it needs to be a little bit shorter than the template. We're gonna mark out off the template and then make it a little bit shorter. So we make it up off the pattern and then we'll do a test fit and then hopefully today we'll have this last one in. Last bracket ready to go and then once these are in I'm gonna go to doing the frame on the other side. I'm not going to do the purlins up here yet. I'm going to get It's a bit of cleanup with the plane. We'll do a kerf cut either side of that line. That gives us our slot for our bracket. There we go. Cool. One, two, three. Whoa, you're almost lifting it up there mate. Hold it from sliding back and I'll try and slide it up. One, two, three and a little tiny bit more. Yeah, there we go. Bondo, can you hold on to it a minute? It just feels a bit looser than the other one. We're pretty good though. We'll get a clamp if you're all right there for a sec. So I've been away doing the waterwheel. I had to concentrate on that for a couple of weeks but now I'm back to the barn again. So the last clips you saw before this one was from a few weeks ago. So I'm back down the bottom now. I'm gonna get all these feet anchored in because they're starting to twist and open up some gaps. So I'm going to get them sorted out today, get them fixed in with chemical anchors and then we're going to start work on this whole lean-to side here. But yeah, first and foremost we're going to get these fixed down because winter's coming and some big storms are coming. I want that done. I'm pulling the twists out of them a little bit with a piece of wood just because they actually want to sit straight but they're twisting and they need to be fixed down. Yeah, we're using chemical anchors and it's steel when wet, although these won't be very wet when it's all sheltered, but it will be until the roof's on and everything, I'm putting a rubber washer under them so it acts as a seal from the stainless steel and the resin itself acts as a barrier between this stainless steel and this galvanized and so there shouldn't really be any galvanic reaction between them, which would be relatively mild anyway between stainless and galvanized but it is a bit of a problem. So this should stop that but it does mean I can't tighten them down to a ridiculous amount but that's okay because they're mostly preventing the building sliding off as opposed to lifting off because it's so heavy. This post there that I want to drill is twisted at the base and it's opened up a little gap on one of the joins and so I'm going to pull it. Right, I think that is about as good as I'm going to get it. It's starting to get a bit dodgy. Morning geese. These are the geese we hatched a while ago when we built that house for them. They're doing quite well, still nine of them which is good. I've got all the bases fixed down in film doing one of them, just a repetitive job but they're all done. Pretty well centered on the bases, all chem fixed in, rubber washers then stainless washers over them. Yeah, came out very well, happy with it. So yeah, now it's time to move on to doing these overhang frames. So I've just got some timbers roughly cut to length and last night I figured out my drawing. Hopefully it doesn't blow away on us here. So there's my drawing I can work to, got my measurements and my angles and stuff and I also surveyed the pads. So this is the pad over that way and this is the pad at the back of the building and this one's lower by 25mm than this one. These two are identical and so this one's, this one the post will be 20mm longer, 25mm longer than this one. These two the posts will be the same. This will be the shortest post and so when they all, you know, cutting off a bit off the bottom of the post will take into account this higher or lower pad and all of these will interact at the same point on the building and look straight when you look down them. So yeah, I'm just about to cut some angles. I've made a template just to speed things up with my 20 degree angle that I need and I'm just about to make some first cuts. So feels like it might, there we go. Right, there we go. She's pretty good. I've got a little gap here, just needs one kerf cut and we'll be good. Pretty even there, it's basically one kerf cut all the way around really just to close up this little corner. I must have slipped with the saw a little bit, a few mm there but very minimal. So do one kerf cut in the morning then we'll mark that peg plate mounted and the bracket for the top done. It's all ready to go in. I'm going to put this one in, although it's really inefficient to do that because I have to get everything set up, just do one frame. I want to check that I've done it right. So I'm going to put this one in, get a bit of help coming to help me do it. So stand this one up, if it fits and works right, I'll make the other three the same and then put them all up in one go. Set up, get the peg in here. Good. Okay, we're set up. It looks like it's going to fit. It needs to go a bit further that way and it looks like it's about right. We'll soon find out. Joint closed up really nice. Really nice joint, but happy with that. So yeah, I'm going to get the tractor in place and we'll lift this up, get it fixed on, fixed down and if it's right then I'll make the other three the same. Yep, up there. Good, yeah. I got it, we're hitting a peg in the door, we're hitting a peg in the door, we're hitting Okay, okay. Pull it in. Alright, keep going, keep going. Is it in the top there? No, keep going. Keep going, about there. Alright, I'll try and clamp it there now. Alright, now lower it a bit. Left. Take a bit of strain off of it. That's it, go on. And again. Hold it there, hold it there. Okay, balance it for me. You got it? Alright, it went in okay. Sorry, it's very windy today, storm's coming on its way. Yeah, it went in quite well actually, all things considered. It could have gone 10mm further over that way, but that's where it wants to sit in order for it to be level, so I'm not going to mess around with it. So, get it fixed up on there, and then we shall make three more of them. Alright, morning everyone. It's been a couple of days, we've had a big storm here, but I've got another frame done off camera, and then I realised that I should have been cutting these out while I had it on the floor, so I'm going to have to cut one of those out up there, that one we put up already. It was a bit annoying, but yeah, I'm just working on frame number three, which is this one, and I'm just going to cut out these notches now, then I've just got to mount the bracket on the end, and that's frame three, then we've just got one more to make. That marks our hole, we take it out, drill the hole back towards the shoulder to offset it, so when we put the peg in, it pulls it forwards. Alright, so there's our hole, that's a bit of a kerf cut I need to finish off, just to make the joint tightened up. So, there's our hole there, so we go about four or five mil over, drill it. Sorted, we are finished. That's the last of these plates, nineteen of them in total. They're quite a pain to fit, so I'm glad to have them done. Let's just trim off that excess rubber there. That's not very sharp, is it? Right, so we're all done, so I'll stack these away, and these will all be getting put up tomorrow, three more frames. Right, hey everyone, big day today, because we're going to put up these three frames. It's a bit late getting started because it has been absolutely chucking it down, and it's forecast to chuck it down all day as well, but yeah, sun's out for a minute, so let's make the most of it. We've got a frame in place, ready to go. Just got to slide it together, get a peg in, and then we'll lift her up, up there. Okay, I need to bring it around that way, and again, keep going, keep going, there. Bring it around this way a bit more, go on, and again, there. Okay. Right, hold it. Can you come and move this bit of wood underneath that foot for me? That's it, yep. Okay, keep going up. Okay, start going up. Yep, hold it. Right, hold it there, hold it there. Flushes. Right, got another one up. They're all fitting, which is nice. Didn't film that one because it chucked it down again. But yeah, landed on the pads where we want them, so I got the measurements right. So we now skip one here because this is my big opening for the sawmill, and then we've just got one more on the end here. So I shall film that one, I promise. And then that's it then. You alright? Yep. Rotate. Lift it up a bit, go on. Right, put it down, relax there a minute. Pull that round, that way, that way, that way. And again, a bit more. Yeah, go on. Hold on, hold on. Yep. Okay, up a bit. Alright, stop, stop, stop. Typical. There we go. Right, let it down as I do that. Lay down, let some down, let some down. That's it. Alright, hold it there. Right, they're all up. So I'm real well pleased with them, they all line up really well. I'm well happy with that. All sitting right. So I've only got two fixings in them, and not fixed at the bottoms. So that's what I shall do tomorrow. And then that's that section done. And then we're on to doing purlins. I've got to cut out the purlin notches for that last one as well. Yeah, good job done. Just finished cutting out those pockets on that end frame. And while I was doing that, these have dried. So we get these tightened up. And that is us done. Turned out well. So that is going to conclude this video. I'm really pleased with the amount of work we got done. Even though it did happen over quite a long period of time. Because we had to have a break to do the waterwheel. It's really nice to see it sitting. It's taking its final shape essentially. It's sitting on all the concrete pads. And it's not going to get any bigger now. And we can visualise what it's going to look like. There's obviously still a massive amount of joinery left to do. But it's really getting there. We'll just take it one step at a time. Something with so much joinery and so big. With such big timbers. It takes a very long time. And you just have to not get too overwhelmed. And just one foot in front of the other. Just joint by joint, bit by bit. Screw by screw. And eventually we'll get it done. But yeah, so that's going to conclude this video then. And in the next one we shall get the purlins done. For that lean-to and the back wall. And in between that I'll be back to finishing off the waterwheel. Alright, hope you enjoyed the video. And thanks for watching.