Framing again Arky style

[ARKANSAWYER]

   Did you know that you could raise a frame with a knuckle boom loader?




  Last bent up and still standing!   8)




   Got the roof on and never fell off!  (falling off is the norm)



   This is the view of the inside where the car will be parked.




  This is a 32x36 carport (3 bay) and the front of the building is 12 ft and the back wall is 8 ft.  The front post are 8x8 octagon cedar post the the rest are 6x6 pine with a few 6x6 cedar post.   Been a busy week with sprinkles of rain the whole time.  But the frame is up and I am paid. (if the check clears)  ;)

[dewwood]

Looking good Arky!

[Mr Mom]

     I am going to have to try to use your type of framing. I called the local steel co and they said about $25.00 for one piece for the steel cut to your specks.Seem to be a fast way to build things.
     Great pictures i like the way the building looks.
     What is the siding going to be?


     Thanks Alot Mr Mom

[FrankLad]

Looks good, Mr. Arky!

How are those braces connected?

[ARKANSAWYER]

  Yes the steel has gone up.   When I first started it was about $19.70 for the steel to make one connector and that was cut to 30 degrees.   Now it is about $27.00   I charge $40.00 each now for them.   They are bolted with 3/8 x 3 galvanized lag bolts.   Still a good system as you would have to use larger timbers to have enough wood to make the joints needed.

[jpgreen]

Are they selling steel box tubing that shape, or are you welding them up out of flat?

[jpgreen]

I found your pics in a search.

The 1/4" 6x6 box will fit a 6x6 roughsawn post inside pretty well? I guess the Socket company uses 3/16".  I wonder if they have there box tubing custome extruded?

I wish I would have seen these sockets last year.  I would have done my current building differently.

[ARKANSAWYER]

  You can get the steel in 3/16 or 1/4 or 3/8 or 1/2 thick.   I can also get it in 4x4, 4x6, 6x8, 4x10,  and so on.   Then I can use it to make up what ever I need.   I have done frames out of 8x8 timbers and tubes.   My office on the new log yard is done in 4x4's.

[jpgreen]

Oh I see what ya did now... shave the corners a little.

That''s what I was wondering, how they fit on the inside.  I wonder if the socket company designed their own exstrustion dies so the manufacturer could make the inside of the box corners square?

THat would be pricey.

Do you make the bottom post sockets with the "air space" like they advertise?

THey prolly weld in some angle or plate to hold the post off the bottom.

[jpgreen]

Arky..

I thought I read somewhere you made a shed for your boat?

I've got to make one for my boat and my LT40,and was wondering what size beams you used, and the spacing/span for the bents on that?