Frame event 2010 Cressing Temple, Essex

This was a perfect venue for this event !

   

Outbuildings and practice targets for double head axes, Gransfors, mainly

 

Now let's rest a bit, wich one ? 

This one ?

Or this one ?

Pick one...

 The big mean joints breaking  machine

Broken joints, tenon and mortice on pulling...

 What ? Yeah, they stand a great force, double peg=5.5 t, 1 peg= 4 t

Over engineered, but very ugly and unsuitable in timber framing

but stud to 9.6 t

I like this one very much, stud to 4.6 t

 6 mm dried pine dowels !!!

And broken....

It has created a void in the back of the beam, strange...

More to break next year, ahh this year :)

My first project...

 

  The site before framing...

 

The crane with the mighty oak...

  

Simple post and beam...

 

Naked posts...   

  A very nice day for framing 

The second floor

 Yes is a very long way down, don't looook... down

 There is the church

 

A nice view

 The whole oak frame is erected in 3 days, this is the huge  floor

 

Time to put the deck in place 

Down are the walls coming...

More walls

Stone and timber...

 A green house

 

Window for opportunity

 

Some studding 

 Brace ready for plaster boarding

The roof

End gable and ladder

Braced roof and trusses

Is  a line somewhere there... 

From inside

The slate is on, let's move in !