Hello from Mark Davidson, join me here for posts about Traditional Woodworking including: Timber framing, old Ontario barns, structural design, tools of the trade and generally what keeps us busy at Whippletree.
I’ve previously been posting this information on Facebook and I’m excited to move the process to our website and I hope that you will offer your comments and questions about what you see here.
Our current shop project is for a Rammed Earth build in the Mulmer, Ontario area. The timber material is local Ontario hemlock.
These images show the first stage of design on a small sized timber frame.
Floor plan, division of floor plan into bays or aisles, Post, Tiebeam, Brace, Rafter.
This is called the End Elevation, next blog will have the Side Elevation.
Above are images from the design process, top image is early in the process,
bottom image is from the final engineering drawings.
Building in mid-span rafter support on a saggy roof section. This is one of the tallest barns I’ve been in, aisle posts are approx 24′ tall.
In the top photo, you can see how an old post became a new tiebeam.
Currently assisting Tony Jenkins with a barn removal in Keene, Ontario.
Beautiful Barn with lots of history, top notch pine, and a few angry wasps and bees.
Sept, 2020: posting more pics from the Nogies Creek raising. I basically picked all the images with water in the background… Also included another design drawing showing a lot of the dimensions for the structure.