Timberframe 1/2 up

Thursday of last week was largely spent solving the complicated framing problem of making the top 7' of the prow. We are just finishing it up here.

The timber frame arrived on site on Friday afternoon. The crew was a guy short so I hopped up on the crane truck and helped unload the posts and beams. Here is a shot of about 1/2 of the pieces laying out on the slab.

When we arrived on site on Saturday morning the first bent was just being raised.

By mid afternoon the second bent was going up.


And my favorite part of this whole endeavor so far has been watching the guys use a giant homemade wooden mallet to "tap" joints into place!


The rest of the timber frame is scheduled to go up today (Monday) and we will begin putting up the SIPs walls on Tuesday.