Can you guess what it is yet?

View from the loft.

Starting to look like a building.

Frame # 3 assembled and pegged, ready to be hoisted up.

Frame # 3 standing and connected to frame # 4.

View from loft.

Taking shape...

Frame # 4 standing, connected to frame # 5 with horizontal girts and braces.

A view from the loft.

Word is out...

News travels fast.

Girts and braces fitted, ready to receive frame # 4.

Frame # 4  being assembled.

Progress from the loft staircase.

Mid week progress

Frame #5 standing ready to receive connecting girts and knee braces.

Much interest from the resident wildlife.

First frame lift

Frame # 5 assembled in situ

A view from the existing farm house loft stairs

First frame pulled up into its position on the concrete pad stones.

OJW arrives on site, carpenters at the ready...

Benches, tools and carpenters pile out of the bakkie.

Stabilizing guide ropes being fitted to the mast.

Lifting mast being positioned and assembled. 

Delivery

Parts of the green post and beam frame being loaded onto the truck, destination Swellendam.

Wood chips flying.

Dylan sizing a beam

Vinnie and Even plunging mortises on a post.

From the ground up

20 individual concrete pad stones cast ready to receive the post and beam frame.

Ground cleared and all pad stones complete.  Well done to Nigel and the team.

X marks the spot.

Principal rafters and purlins complete, ready for road freight.

On site, clearing the land.

The chosen site.

How do you cut a 250 kg beam?

With a Robinson Band Saw, roller tables and elbow grease.

Sling brace being cut to the line.

Nearly there...

The curved sling brace was cut out of one piece of timber 5 m long x 500 mm wide x 200 mm thick.  It weighed 600 kg and to make it more manageable sections were cut away from the beam with the woodmizer saw mill to reduce the weight.  The pieces that were cut away were not wasted as we turned them into knee braces.

Factory progress

Completed girts with shouldered tenons and mortises chopped in.

Frame no. 5 having the sling braces fitted.

Mike plunging a mortise through the end of the sling brace, creating a tongue and fork joint.