Tom and I officially started on the timber frame today. First order of business was pulling out some of the antique timbers so we could get at the posts and assess what needs to be done on them. One will need a repair on the bottom where some of the material has decayed. Several have missing stub tenons, so work to be done to locate the posts without the tenons.
After we figured out where the sills go on the building, I started cutting the sills to length and making the joinery. I'll lap the sill on the 32' contiguous wall, and the corners by the garage doors will be joined by mortise and tenon. The other two corners will be a butt joint, possibly with a spline between the members. With anchor bolts every 6', nothing will move.
Some of the first joinery - the longer members are the outside pieces of the 32' run, with their lap joints cut in. The shorter piece is for the gable wall and has a tenon to join to the adjacent member.
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