Timber Framed Barn Part 21 Main Framing Complete

Hey everyone so start of a new barn video weather's not great again but it is January so well nearly February and the days are starting to get longer so hoping for some good weather. I don't know if anyone else does that but towards the end of summer I start looking forward to winter and the quiet and more relaxed sort of time of year that it is but then come this sort of time in winter I just can't wait to get a bit of better weather back again. So yeah I'm at that stage now where I could really do with some better weather. Oh look at these lot down here look. You all right? What are you up to? For some reason they really like that little spot. So yeah in this video we are going to be doing the purlins for the lean-to. Slightly different from the last ones because we've got that really big span and I have to figure out how to do that but yeah today's just going to be in the workshop making some more purlins which I probably won't show because you've seen that a lot now. All right hey everyone next day and yesterday I got these made. I didn't show because it's the same as all the other ones. It's just four half laps and all plain down and thicknessed. Ready to go up there. Ready to go up there. So the first one I can get from the top floor I think is the easiest so I can just slide that one through and then the other three will get progressively easier and I'll lift them up from the ground with the tractor. Just be ready to get out of the way dear. Can you stand back a bit? Still film but stand back a bit because I don't want this to, if the clamps go it's going to come towards you. There we go. Nice. That's good. That's a good fit. Happy with that and that technique worked all right as well really. It wasn't too dangerous is it? Good. Ready? Just be careful. Get ready to run out the way. Angle's not right. Okay. It's annoying. A little bit too tight. Keep filming. Keep filming. Don't one fixed down and then that's that job done. Move on to the next row. All right so that's a good job done. Didn't take me too long. It's all in the preparation. So this end's not fixed yet because obviously we've got half laps. Just got to fix that end there and then I've got to get back in the workshop and make another set. Yeah I'm pleased to be back to work on it. I'm enjoying it and the sun's out so that's good. So this is the bottom piece so we're removing this piece here. Okay. Hey everyone. Next day. Bit of a gloomy day but it's dry enough. Yesterday I got those other four pieces done. Four half laps for this next section which is actually going to be the last wooden section because we're going to have to do this long span in steel. I wanted to do it in what's called a flitch beam which is half wood half steel but I can't get wood long enough. I can't really join the wood in a way that it's going to be safe and strong enough and even the RSJs are actually going to struggle and I might have to do something to add a bit of extra support but that's for another the next job. This bay is all cut and that's what we're going to get done today. Bit gloomy but I'm going to try and get the drone up to get some better footage for you. All right let's get to work. Right let's get this first piece in which I can get in from up here relatively easily. Hopefully. I've just spotted a potential issue. It's going to try and slide off isn't it? Because it might be right. I'll be a bit careful today because it's a bit wet and it's a bit slippery. All right there we go. This way a little bit. Let's weigh a little bit more. Weigh a little bit. Let's see if this will rotate and go in. That would be nice if it would. That's good. It's a good fit. That is really helpful. That is really really helpful. Hopefully this one goes in. It looks like it's a bit tight but we'll see. Go on. There we go. Excellent and it's a good fit. Happy with that. Right as you can see the weather has deteriorated on me. The drone keeps getting fogged up so you'll have to excuse the foggy lens. So we'll start with getting this in. There we go. Nice. That was good. Is she gonna fit? And the answer to that question is it doesn't look like it. It's close. Oh me mallet's down there. What a disaster. Excellent. So that's that job done for the wooden bits. The next bit is not gonna be so easy unfortunately but if you have a look they do all line up quite nicely. And so the next job is to get 150mm RSJ bridging that gap and then maybe offering some more support to it if needs be. Yeah pretty happy with that. Good job done. Show you from underneath quickly. Oh the ladder's in the way. Move this ladder. Yeah good job done. Right I think I'm lined up. My plan is try and get these. I can't lift them off with the tractor it's too heavy. I'm gonna try and get this end plopped over here and then I get the tractor in behind them and lift one end over. But it's easier said than done. Can you shout dear if I'm gonna hit anything? Okay all right thank you dear. Apologies for the wind. It's a windy old day today. I'm essentially doing the same thing that I was doing on the wooden ones but just with these it's nothing too complicated. It's basically half lapping steel instead of wood. So we're gonna cut this one off. Yeah I'm not particularly good at arc welding. That one's not too bad but it will be strong. That's the main thing. It doesn't even need to be that strong. It's only mostly just sitting down on these bits but yeah it'll be strong. Okay not too bad. Certainly strong enough for this. Right so that is two down. Roll that over. Two to go. Yeah I am pretty pleased with that actually. Not bad for arc welding on a windy day. But yeah so if it weren't clear from the video these holes are for getting the fixing down in. You can get a socket through there to fix them down with. It'll all become clear when I put them up. Come on. Right I've finally got a dry day. So I've got all my joinery done on these RSJs and four RSJs. I'm just painting them now. I've tried to match the color to the brackets up there. I think it's pretty close. So yeah just I've got one layer on the back side. I've just flipped them over. Now I've got to get these painted but it's going to chuck you down with rain in about five hours. So I need to get going with this really. Give it time enough to dry. Dot's getting the garden ready for spring. Geese having a rummage through the nice grass in there. They've eaten all the grass on the outside of the garden but there's nothing they can really hurt in there at the minute. So they can be in there. Dot's just getting all our homemade compost out which is good stuff for the lovely worms. A lot of worms in there. Yeah we've got three piles that size from this year from the animals and vegetables and stuff. Yeah Dot's just going to put a whole layer over the whole garden while I build the barn. All right hey everyone. New day. Weather's not great. Not good at all actually but I'm going to get on anyway. The RSJs came out nice. All painted. Ready to go. I've set up this contraption to help us lift. You can't get it into the center because that posts in the way but it'll do the most of the work for us. So yeah going to try and get them lifted up now. Are you going to be okay? You're all right to me. Slow down, slow down, slow down. All right I just want to do a safety check on this. Just stand out of the way a minute. Yeah it's never lifted at this angle though before. So yeah that's all right though. I've just doubled the weight of it by bouncing up and down and it's all right. So we'll be fine. Let it go back. That's it. Ready? All right don't try and fight it. Put it on the brace now. Use the brace to hold it and I'll bring it up on here a bit. And up. Hold it. Ready? And up. Ready? And up. Can you hold it? All right I'm gonna lift it up onto this. Don't drop it. There you go. Let it down onto there a minute. Let it down. There you go. Paint is a bit sticky still. I lift it, you hold it. Yeah. Ready? Yeah hold it. One, two, three. Yeah. All right. Okay. Let it down. Down, down, down. Right. No. Okay. Drop it down. You ready? Yeah. There we go. Is there much of a gap around there now? A little bit still is there? Uh yeah about two to three inches or something like that. Oh there's a bit of a gap under here still. It'll come down a bit with the fixing. Okay. All right. That's good. Yeah. All right. I had to borrow Dot for a minute there so we didn't get as much filming as I'd like. Just was quite difficult to get it up here. I've had to cut these out as well because I Okay. We're there. One, two, three. Heave. One, two, three. Heave. Again. One, two, three. Okay. We're bottomed out. Let's come back down again. There we go. All right. Can someone lower otherwise we wouldn't have been able to slide the next one down it. So yeah. Last one. Last one to and the sun's come out. Been in the rain all day in the clouds, struggling and everything's been wet and slippery. Soon as I finish it, sun comes out. So yeah. Went well, all things considered. So it's meant to be a nicer day tomorrow. So I'll get the drone out so you can get a better shot of it. But lifting contraption all worked. All thing, it all looks good. Just going to have to touch the paint up in a few spots. But yeah. Okay. So that is going to conclude this video. Good bit of progress made. All those purlins for the lean to are up. That is all the heavy work done on the frame now really. I'm pretty pleased with how that turned out. I was a bit worried about trying to figure out what to do with that big span because I did originally think I was going to try and do it with timber and bits of metal to make a flitch beam. But it became too, it wasn't going to be strong enough. I was going to have to join timbers and it wasn't going to work well. I think we made the right decision going with the RSJs and I think it looks really nice as well. I really like the combination of the timber and the metal comparing the old with the new kind of thing. And I think the join between them came out really well as well. Generally really pleased with it. So yeah, in the next video I'm going to start putting up roof rafters, getting ready for roofing. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching.