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Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
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11-04-2009, 07:37 PM
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Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
For me as of right now it's a eyebrow dormer I didn't even know where to begin to figure it mathematically so I had to wing it.It turned out good but was a nightmarish task.
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11-04-2009, 07:58 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
the bent beam was a biatch
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11-04-2009, 07:59 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
A small handful of guys can figure out an eyebrow mathematically
 , and i am not one of them , GMOD
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11-04-2009, 08:02 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
Damn Bone Saw, that's pretty bad-ass right there!!!
Oh, to answer the question: Anytime I have to add-on or mess with a house that is 100+ years old, you might as well leave the level and the square at home.
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11-04-2009, 08:03 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
I would like to say the most fun thing to frame.
  
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11-04-2009, 08:05 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
I have done some curved decks before but nothing like that!
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11-04-2009, 08:07 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
gus that is way cool, luv the cheek block tensioner
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11-04-2009, 08:08 PM
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11-04-2009, 08:10 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
Gus & Bone saw-WOW-great work
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11-04-2009, 08:15 PM
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This was done in a small town in SW Colorado. The house ended up looking nothing like the print. I just kept the inspector in the loop about structural details and he let us site engineer the whole structure. He loved what we were doing. Those bolts you see holding the rafter logs to the center log are 5/8"lags welded to all thread. No way would I have been able to do all of this with out an engineer anywhere else I have worked. Went off like a dream. I still visit the house every few years and all is well. Most fun I ever had building a house.
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11-04-2009, 08:26 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
Most of you guys have seen these before, but for those of you that haven't....
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11-04-2009, 08:28 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
lone, is that first one at 41st oc?
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11-04-2009, 08:31 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
A few more that top the list.
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11-04-2009, 08:33 PM
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11-04-2009, 08:43 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
This one was fun, I kept telling everyone I had it it figured out but to tell the truth even after I finished I don't know how I did it !
Sorry about the attachment but it's a old scan before I knew how to do it right. check all 3 pages. http://workspace.office.live.com/?pp...e%201/scan.pdf |
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11-04-2009, 10:47 PM
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11-04-2009, 10:55 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
I would say my first hip over a bay with little guidance was a bitch
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11-05-2009, 09:24 AM
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11-05-2009, 03:59 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
I wish I had pictures of it- a little tiny addition on a log house. It was the most cut up framing that you could possibly imagion. You could probabably frame something 3-4 times larger with the same amount of wood, just because of all the funky angles and extra blocking and such. Studs with compound miters on both ends, fun stuff like that.
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11-05-2009, 05:12 PM
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Re: Hardest Thing You Have Ever Framed?
Most of these guys have seen this as well, but it was sooooo much fun (and award winning! Thanks Loneframer)
This was my second dome frame. First one was about 10 years ago and I never took any pics. |
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