Once we completed the floor deck above the basement we set to work assembling the timber-framed wall sections.
All was going like clockwork.
We scheduled for a crane to come in the following day. Within 24 hours we would have a completed standing frame for the world to see!
As fate would have it, when the morning came to raise the timber-frame that the sky opened up and poured upon us.
The forecast called for the rain to pass quickly so we held to our schedule.
The crane was on the way.
Within minutes of the crane’s arrival the assembled timber-frame walls began to rise.
The heavy duty forklift begins hauling the trusses to the area where the crane can lift them into place. Each of these trusses weighs about the same as a small car so without all of this heavy equipment we would be assembling this frame one piece at a time… or be calling in a hundred of our closest Amish friends.
The first of four timbered trusses floats down onto the top plates. I’ve always loved these moments when men reach out as far as they can and first touch a timber as it is set into place.
One after another the trusses are set in place.
Originally posted 2015-07-19 16:07:01.
I think it would be really cool to have a timber framed house just like they had in the past. Some of those homes still stand today so it would be a quality frame that you are setting up. I really like how you were able to get most of the work done so quickly.
Agreed Charles. I think the timberframing is the pinnacle of the housing craft… peaking in skill and design the mid 1800’s after centuries of slow improvements. Everything since has been all about faster and cheaper, not better.