This a timber frame built using 8" x 8" pressure treated post set in concrete on grade. The tennons on top of the post and brace pockets were cut before they were concreted in the footer holes . We used a lazer transist to set them equally on grade. The rest of the timbers and framing was cut out of locally harvested yellow popular.
Classic Timber Frame Barns
This is our current project. It is a story and a half queen post truss timber frame cut from oak harvested on sight and from other local woods. It is going to be a dog kennel on half the first floor and the other half will have a large door a dog truck can pull into for loading the dogs. The secound floor will be for storage and a guest room. It is built on top of a monolithic concrete slab with a four foot wall on one side with openings in it for the dog kennels. The interior slab has tubbing in it for a radiant heat. There is a small bathroom with pluming roughed into the slab in the corner .
This is the second floor showing the 5" x 8" floor joist housed, dovetailed and wedged into the 10" x 14" summer beam. The dovetail joint was also used on the overhead perlings. These dovetail jionts are holdinng the building together securely at this time with out all the additional pegs in place or any nails or other metal bracing.
Here you can see the housed dove tail jiont connection. The reason for the 1" housing is the give added shearing strengh to the floor jiost . Also when the summer beam shrinks there will be no vissual crack on the bottom between the end of the floor jiost and summer beam.
Canted struts with princaple perlings and common raftersThis barn roof framing is found in a lot of old barns.It desigh directs roof loads directly down to the center post od the barn and virtually stops all outward thurst on the walls caused by heavy roof loads. It also enables the use of smaller lumber for the main part of the roof.
The Base of the Frame
Building the Frame
Shipped white pine nailed to the outside of the frame. This gives the house the look of a barn with all the timbers and shipped lapped pine exposed to the interior. Later studs will be nailed to the outside of the pine to form a cavity for wiring and insulation; and the extior board and batten will be nailed to these studs for a finished exterior .
This is our two stall horse barn with heated tack room, steps to loft , concrete wash bay and run in for hoses ; and equipment bay on left.
The stall doors we costum build . We weld a metal frame together out of 3" x 1" metal tubing , weld in bars and in fill with tongue and groove yellow pine. We hang then with the round cannon ball track with round neophrine rollers.