What are you working on?

[henksta]

First post, longtime reader. 
Working on enclosing my 'solar shed', a saltbox design with the large roof side facing south, to eventually hold 8 solar panels. I started cutting the frame in summer 2020 using mostly hand tools, raised it last July with a couple of friends. Apart from the raising, it's a one-man job so a bit slow going. 
It has a 12 x 14 ft footprint, all EWP, except the base which is 6x6 pressure treated. 
Trying to finish the board and batten siding, install windows, doors by spring, and then the solar panels. 















 

[Chilterns]

When the weather warms up we will drill and raise our small garden office. The frame has been made from one large (100ft) Douglas Fir tree felled and converted in the woodland on our Woodland Mills sawmill that is inside our cruck barn. The sawmill affords a good alternative way to accurately fashion complex timber joints.










The sawmill can also be used to rip cut the long face of brace tenons.



Now to drill & peg

Chilterns

[Jim_Rogers]

Today, we raised a frame we've been working on all week.
A student posted a few videos of the scarf joints being assembled.

here is one:
Scarf Joint Assembly - YouTube

Jim Rogers

[Jim_Rogers]

Here is the next scarf assembly:

Timber Frame Scarf Assembly - YouTube

Jim Rogers

[Chilterns]

Hi Jim,

Do you use your sawmill to make the long flat faces of the scarf joint ?

[Jim_Rogers]

Hi Jim,

Do you use your sawmill to make the long flat faces of the scarf joint ?

We were on a job site. Not my mill. We used a 10" skill saw and cut from two sides.
The pare to the line with a slick or hand plane.
Jim Rogers