Don: I never compromised floor joist or beams. The greatest stresses occur on the bottom and top surfaces, the fibers in the middle of the timber are under little or no stress. I've seen many 2x10 floor joist in conventional framing where plumbers, electricians, or home owners drilled holes for pipes or electrical wires very close to the top or bottom of the joist. The few peg through mortise mistakes happened on over sized post. Understanding structural design, bendng moment, loads, deflection, and shear are best suited for structural engineers and not butchers.
Tim On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:10 AM, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]>wrote: > Tim- > Re peg through mortise, I'd just say I was checking to see if anybody was > paying attention...;>) > Dimensional stability is underrated until you have a piece twist on you > after securing it! > -Don > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:29:03 -0500 > Subject: [ENTS] Re: White pine is a great wood for building a timber frame > > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Don: > > I felt like a butcher many times. The hardest part of the joinery was > returning to the frame after working my (real job) all week and losing the > continuity. My biggest screw up was doing the mirror image of the timber I > last work the week before. The mistakes are part of the house and they show > an important human element. A few of my biggest mistakes, show the peg > going through the mortise, sort of like an internal investigation. Since I > used oversized timbers, the mistakes were trivial so I used them as psych > art. > > Tim > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]>wrote: > > Tim- > Nice work! > Reminds me of one of my favorite coffee table books, "The Wood-butcher's > Guide to Art"! > -Don > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:24:21 -0400 > Subject: [ENTS] White pine is a great wood for building a timber frame > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > 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 > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ ' target='_new'>Sign up > now. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
