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Current & Recent Projects
Below is a sampling of either our current projects or recent projects that have been completed in the past year or so.
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Coop Deluxe
c. 2011
This 8' x 16' framework serves as a rather fancy yet stout coop for a mixed flock of 80 or so very fortunate chickens. Framed in both eastern hemlock and black locust, the coop is centrally located between two fenced paddocks that will serve as alternate pasture in a high-intensity rotational foraging system for the laying hens.
We designed, framed, and finished this building just before the on-set of winter.
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Outdoor Classroom Pavilion
c. 2011
This framework serves as an outdoor educational pavilion on the grounds of Lake Metroparks' Penitentiary Glen, located in Lake County, Ohio.
The original design for this pavilion was done by TDA Architecture of Willoughby, Ohio for Lake Metroparks. We were graciously invited by the architect to propose minor changes to the original design in order to integrate more traditional methods and patterns of historical heavy timber carpentry. We obliged, and the result is a collaboration of the architects intended vision and our ties to historical timberwork detailing and joinery. The frame was raised in a single day in October, 2011.
The framework is joined entirely in Western Red Cedar and will remain fully exposed without the enclosure of roof or walls. The joinery has been slightly modified to fascilitate the drainage of water.
Normally, we don't extensively test-assemble frames in the shop. But, with this frame, we assembled portions in order to
photo-document our project progress.
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Porches, Porches, & More Porches
c. 2011
2011 seems to be the year for porches!
We started this spring by installing two kingpost trusses atop posts within a conventionally framed screened porch. The porch is part of a conventionally built home by Payne and Payne Custom Builders of Chardon, Ohio.
Our next porch project was a more traditional porch. We supplied the structural framework in Eastern Hemlock that included timber joists that form a flat ceiling for the porch of this conventionally framed home built by Bravo Homes of Chagrin Falls, Ohio
In July, we traveled back to North Tunbridge, Vermont to add a timber-framed front porch to the cabin that we framed in the summer of 2010. The porch will most likely be screened in the future. Framed in Eastern Hemlock, just like the cabin, it features exposed rafters.
Just completed in September, 2001, the timberwork of our most recent porch was part of a much larger exterior home make-over by
B.B. Brigham Remodeling, LLC of Burton Ohio. The exterior timberwork is framed in Western Red Cedar.
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Lakeside Granary
original late 19th century frame with 2011 repairs
This little frame was recently dismantled by it's current owner and moved from its previous site near the Lake Erie shore in northeast Ohio and will soon be re-erected at the owner's farm in Geauga County, Ohio. Once used as a granary (amongst other things) this 12' x 18' frame has undergone several moves. After having moved the dismantled frame to his farm, the current owner contacted us and asked us to help in repair and reassembly of the framework. The frame is predominantly eastern hemlock with some yellow-poplar as well. The frame shows evidence of having been more than a single storey originally. Consequently, we'll be crafting a new set of white oak sills for the current version and retrofitting the post bases to join the new sills. The new/old building will most likely serve as a garden shed and/or canning kitchen in its new life.
Although this is a small frame and a small project, we feel strongly that it illustrates just how resilient and worthy of repair traditional timber-framed buildings are. In an age when most "old" construction ends up in the landfill, this project and the vision of the current owner makes quite a statement.
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