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loneframer
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Farmhouse renovation
Started with a 1923 farmhouse, razed and rebuilt the existing roof, added 1400 square feet of additions, including an octagonal breakfast nook. Did framing, roofing, siding, replacement windows...
Ferndale
Roof is completely stick framed.
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Lagoon road.
This is another example of an all stick framed roof. The unique part of this roof is the center gable above the curved stairs. The gable is also curved as well as some of the walls on the other end...
Arkansas
This roof has a lot going on. There were very few common rafters due to hips on the back corner of the house and all the little pop-ups in the front. The winding staircase offloads onto nine...
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Juniper Lane
This roof is all stick framed. Don't have any pics of the framing stage. The main roof is a 12/12, but behind the octagon on the right, the roof plane was a 10.5/12 so that a small triangle wouldnt...
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Sticky Vicky
This building has a completely stick framed roof. Lots of hip and valley combinations, as well as a double decker octagon roof. If you look closely in pics 1 and 3, you can see the steel flitch...
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Roll out the barrels
Most of this roof was stick framed, except for a section of flat top trusses to span the width of the front room which was around 38' wide. All stick framing had to tie in to the trusses with hips...
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Recent comments
Re: Interior dome under trussed hip
Hey Warren, glad to see the dome entered. I'm still waiting for my opportunity to try my hand at one of these, before my mingd starts to slip. Awesome job.
posted: 10:00 pm on August 19thRe: Arkansas
I wish I had pics of the back of this house, but it overlooks the inland waterway and I don't have a boat.
posted: 6:19 pm on August 19thRe: Roll out the barrels
I believe mine may have been the first raised Huck. I had done a few barrels and eyebrows previously, but not any that required more than an 8' sheet to get the width. I think the final sheet count to complete these barrels was about 110.
posted: 6:14 pm on August 19thRe: Complex cut & stack from pre-cut package
Huck, that's a great accomplishment. I usually cut ridges, hips, valleys and a few commons to pin the ridge/ridges, then cut and fill in jacks in sections. Awesome show of confidence.
posted: 9:38 pm on August 18th