When are you going to give up some pictures of your project? We can’t be there with you but I’d bet I am not the only one that wants to see what is going on.
Boogering is reserved, but how about Friggin With Frenchy?
Pictures or not, what you are doing is unique, and you would do us all a favor by starting a thread discussing the day to day of it all.
I catch bits and pieces of the whole thing on different threads, but want to know more…
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After a day like today, I'm not certain I want to ever look at it again, let alone take pictures of it. Two of us worked all day and managed to get a handfull of screws installed on the roof SIP, plus a couple of timbers installed in the 4th dormer in the pool room. In doing so, we managed to break two of those expensive drill bits. I'm out well over $300.00 plus the time it will take to make and ship two more.
In addition I have to wait while the power company moves the lines which may be another 3 or 4 weeks.
My sister took some photo's and a couple of them aren't too bad. (none show the unique burl timbers or give any impression of the size of things) but they show what I did up to about march or so.. However I am really stupid, I just couldn't figure out how to post pictures when I had my scanner, so I traded it for some help getting my daughters computer fixed and well, now evan if I could figure out that stuff I don't have a way of posting things. (my daughters computer lasted about a week before it died again....)
First chance I get I'll go and try to get whatever I need to post pictures but this time I'll make certain the purchase includes information on how to post pictures.
Pictures are optional guy, but you should really start a thread on your project. I doubt I am the only one following it from here and there. Even if it is a weekly update it would be a blast, you'll see.
Hey, if you want any advice on pics and so on, e-mail me, I am all over that stuff.
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Frenchy, I aint laughin, I'm interested, and I'm sure many others are too. If you are worried we will catch you screwing up, let me tell you a secret, I screw up every day.
As far as how fast you go...we guts time. Want an example? This house I am sitting in now...bought land in '87, moved in in '89 and haven't stopped working on it yet. My deal was the land, the house part was easy, but I think I am going to see the end of it soon. Hmm, let me see if I can find a front shot off the deck...ok, crappy photo, but you should have seen it before. I hope to have all that mess in the front turned into reclaimed fields bounded by stone walls. At this point it is cleared and grubbed, and I am just waiting for my friends with machines to get some free time. Free time? Ya, what's that?
Tell you what, you buy a camera and I will, we can have a contest on who has the slowest thread.
WOW!
What a view! I understand why you would spend your life building a place with a view like that. Isn't that what we really do? I mean, we try to achieve something special but we realize that we aren't made of money so our efforts go into what we can control. That is our "free" time...(Yeh, what's that?)
Hopefully we share our dream with someone who feels as we do and allows us to spend way too much time makin' sawdust and noise.
By the way, I've got the equipment, if you've got the time, I'll trade you some of my equipment and labor for some of your time,...... now if I can just get my end of the stargate hooked up and workin'.
Also post a pix of those $300 bits?
A couple more drill bits like that and you'll wish you had bought a metal lathe to make your own.
Now be specific junkhound,
which pieces of those bits do you want to see? The piece that stayed in the milwaukee hole hawg, the counterbore piece that broke off and hit me in the arm, the shank part that I spent the better part of two hours beatin' out of the hole, or the pilot hole piece that I sacraficed to get the shank out?
Oh, and it was $300.00 for two bits so you see it really wasn't all that bad, SOB! Waaaaaaaaa
What the fool did this week. chapter 2
I got the last of the roof sips installed over the west wing. 24 feet long, 11 inches thick, 4 feet wide. Pretty much should eleminate any heat loss thru the roof! Covered with 5 mil. poly to shed rain off the OSB untill I get a chance to cover everything with shingles.
I had the forklift stretched out to it's full capacity with a 12 foot jib extension on. That's 42 feet plus 12 for a total of 54 feet. My buddy had to ride the jib to the peak in order to guide the final panels into place. I climbed up a thirty foot ladder and he balanced on the peak of a 27 /12 pitch roof. the first time to ensure that everything fit (or second, third,fourth etc.) time then one more time trying our best to avoid the glue smeared all over the edges.
Sure wish I could brag about how everything went click click, but the trueth is timbers while they are as straight as I could get them they did manage to show a little charcter. Panels that rigid don't exactly bend so you have to figure out where in space things will intersect and somehow manage to get several hundreds of pounds to dance to that spot. (did I mention wind?) Well you see, if you have that much area hanging from a line 40 or fifty feet in the air wind will try it's level best to teach you new words to add to an already colorful vocabulary. Landing something like that is somewhat close to trying to get all of the leaves that fall off the tree in the fall to land in your trash bags.....
Just in case you are still interested I just posted this weeks recent doin's
Frenchy, you climbed up a 30' ladder to get to the eave? And you had ONE friend to help do all of this? Ha, had is probably the operative word here.
Sounds like fun and I'm glad I missed it. Hey, does this mean the worst is done, or do you have some other surprises for your buddy?
Frenchy is glad you asked Qtrmeg. Seems he's looking for a new friend.....:) Joe H
This whole thing needs video, this "I don't have a camera" story isn't good enough coming from a guy who can afford to pay $150 each drill bits.
JoeH,
If I send you the pieces will you come and take the pictures? Actaully if there is anyone in the Mpls. area who would like to take pictures and post them you are welcome just e-mail me and I give you directions.
Nah! the ladder at full extension reached to the peak of the dormer (from the back side ) if I had tried from the front I would have been 9 or 10 feet short. as for the friend, well I envy him. He thinks that it's fun to do a dismount from the second story. He used to do gymnastics and would grab a beam and roll around it dropping himself to the ground. Not like the flying dismount on the back of this months Magazine, but impressive anyway.
Where I have to climb up a ladder he could grab a timber and skamper up unaided. Of course maybe I could too if I was only 28 instead of 53 and 100 pounds over weight
Oh no, the worst is a long way from over. We still have the whole great room to build and assemble. In the west wing its less than twenty feet from the peak of the roof to the pool room on the second floor. In the great room it will be 28 feet. Although the pitch on the west wing is 27/12 it won't be nearly as steep over the great room, only 17 /12.
I will have some really long reaches to place the timbers for the great room, In order to do it I plan on using our 56 foot forklift and the 12 foot jib for a total of 68 feet, but I think I'll be able to use it for only three trusses. after that I'll be able to go back to using the 42 foot forklift and 12 foot jib....(I hope)
as far as him remaining a friend, well we are actively planning his families vacation home up on a lake so he still thinks timber framing is neat. (did I mention that I was a salesman?)
You've got to get pictures of this place, it sounds great. I wish you lived around the corner so I could bug the heck out of you, but I wouldn't be the one dangling offa nothin. Ha, I would be the one sneaking timber out in my truck for the daughter's projects. (don't ask, her mom has got her asking me for completion dates for the things).
Had a bit of luck on my hobby this week. One of my digger friends fell into a slump and decided to come over and sit on the machine he left here last year. He got the best of one of the fields this week. Yea!
While I was writing this I had 7 phone calls, one stop over, three e-mails about some computer thing...and almost the whole time, (until the stop over), a doe jumped the wall I can see outside this window and grazed on the low bush blueberries that transition between the "grass" and the woods. The deer is a keeper, the rest is noise.
People wonder why we do what we do, sounds to me like people have too much free time.
RAIN, RAIN, go away!
Nothin's gettin done today,
nothins gettin done at all,
at this rate it'll take 'till fall.
2010
Water on the shop floor was over ankle deep. Too much shavings are clogging the drains and I spent whatever free time I've had with a snake and plunger.
Now I'm worried that the rain will ruin the OSB and force me to nail/screw plywood over it. something about one step forward and twenty back.... I put plastic over it and evan nailed it down rather than rely on staples, wind shredded it.
Today I found out that the power lines which are keeping me from working anymore on the timberframe will be at least three four weeks more since the dummy at the power company failed to get the required permit to cross under the street. 6 weeks so far and now another three weeks or so! I keep getting this sense that a hundred dollars or so would make all the problems disappear.....