Josh: I can't imagine using hemlock for a frame. Hemlock is heavy and splinters so much I always take caution before I pet it. I built a log house, stick house and I thought about a stone house but after reading Jack's book, I wanted to experience the lost Art of timber framing. I used white oak and hickory for the pegs. I bought the wood pegs from an apprentice timber framer.
Tim On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Josh Kelly <[email protected]>wrote: > > Tim, > > That's beautiful! Timber framing is my favorite style of building and > your house (I assume) looks lovely! > > A couple of years ago I helped put up a timber framed barn made from > hemlock and poplar. I enjoyed working with both, but hemlock > splintered much more. > > Josh > > On Oct 31, 7:24 pm, Timothy Zelazo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Russ: > > > > When I was building the timber frame 15 years ago, I played around with > many > > different kinds of wood. Early framers used beech, spruce, chestnut, > white > > pine, red spruce, hemlock, aspen, ironwood, ash, oak, yellow birch and > sugar > > maple. The English colonists used white oak because it was very rot > > resistant and abundant. I mostly used white pine because it is very > stable > > and has one of the lowest shrinkage rates of northern trees. I felt like > I > > needed a walking stick after working many long hours on most of my > > vacations. > > > > Tim > > > > Copy of Timber Frame.JPG > > 170KViewDownload > > > > Copy of the timber frame interior.JPG > > 171KViewDownload > > > > Copy of Sun Room.JPG > > 237KViewDownload > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
