Building Concepts Course CMCC Week 18 - Timber Frame Rafters

Our timber frame project has an end in sight! This week we focused on rafters. The pictures above and the picture to the left illustrate the method of joinery that we exercised to bring our rafters together at the ridge. Tongue and Fork is the term for it.  Tongue and Fork You can see we dry fit them on the ground before erecting them on our building. Also for our birds mouth cut since their is not going to be any overhang...

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Building Concepts Course CMCC Week 17- Timber Frame Knee Braces

This week was devoted much of our time toward creating knee braces for the long walls of our timber frame. The purpose of these knee braces is to keep the long walls of the structure held square and also to offer support. Unlike the other knee braces we joined these 4 knee braces from the outside in instead of the true mortise (hole) and tenon (tongue) style joinery. Before any assembly happened their was a lot of planing and joining of the...

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Building Concepts III Course CMCC Week 16 - Hip Mock Up Completion

This week our focus we set on completing the Hip/Valley Roof System mock up. Our tasks were to calculate the five different hip/valley member ahead of time with given building dimensions. Based on what we have been taught about determining opposite interior and exterior angles inside of a rectangles.  _________________________________________________________________________________ Hip- Valley Cripple Jack Rafter  With...

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Building Concepts III Course First and Second Week CMCC- Hips Roof Assemblies Weeks 14 and 15

 Picking Up on the Timber Frame: Week 14 Week 14 was all of one full day of shop work and that shop day was spent working on pluming up and squeezing together the joints of our timbers on our timber frame shed. Once they were viced and clamped, we applied gusset plates to each side of every corner to hold them in place.   _________________________________________________________________________________ Trick of the Trade...

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