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.

Sling Brace Frame #1

Sling brace with the curvature cut on the Robinson Bandsaw.
 Each beam weighing roughly 250 kgs.

Eucalyptus cladocalyx (sugar gum) 200 x 200 mm sawn beams are being laid out over a setting out rod / template.
All joints are transferred up from the template, this is known as 'rafting'.  This ensures all five sling braced frames which make up the ribs of the structure are identical.

The shape of the frame on the right with the stoep section to the left.

Sling brace with tie beam below the apex.

Eucalyptus Cladocalyx "Sugar Gum" delivery.

 The first batch of beautiful, straight eucalyptus beams delivered to the OJW Framing Yard where they will be turned into a sling braced trussed dwelling.