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Timber framer looking to save a barnMy wife & I have been looking for a barn to save and move to our site near Leesburg Va. Maybe with your help we can find a barn to convert to our timber frame house. We would like to preserve the right frame/barn, by designing a house that will fit our needs and our hillside(with 5'run to 1' fall to the S.E.), like an old bank barn. We hope to have a 3(maybe 4) bay frame, around (3-4000 sq. ft.) The condition of the frame would be something like this; GOOD SHAPE DRY TIMBERS WITH ROOF we are not stuck on hand-hewn timbers and prefer square cut frames with a full bent & purlin system with out (2X_) rafters. The flooring and barn boards will be used for case work and stuff and all original hardware and fixtures would be nice to save and use. We have contacted some folks up in Penn. that save barns but with little luck. So far Marcus Brandt from Belthlehem Pa. has been some help but has not found anything to show us. Please let us know if you have any leads or info to save a barn from the sprawl of "development".Thank youSteve & Pam IF THEY COME IT WILL GET BUILTI am looking for volunteers to help me build a, 10 bent, timber frame house this June and July '97. This is a non-for-profit adventure that could use all the help it can get. Beginners welcomed and no experience is necessary as I will teach you, and share the knowledge that I have learned from those kind enough to share it with me. If you already understand traditional square rule and have experience I "love" you and want you to come of course:) This house is NOT getting built, any time soon, without your help. I am all alone on this. I understand we all have our lives to deal with, but here is an opportunity to revive a community spirited building technique that will last for generations. Consider learning more about the project. I may be reached in person from 10am-4:30pm at (718) 935-5532. Michael Martin <Twopervs@tiac.net> New Paltz, NY Ulster - Thursday, May 29, 1997 at 09:32:30 (EDT) Brotus Mills is a custom cabinet shop that builds cabinets using blue-stain beetle kill pine. Blue-stained pine would be the wood to use in a timber framed home. Our door styles include raised panel, flat panel, wainscot panel, and knotty pine plywood . Cabinets are finished and ready for delivery or shipping. If you are interested in adding blue-stained cabinets to your timer frame home contact Frank at Brotus Mills, 307-745-0302. E-mail - Brotusmill@aol.com . Brotus Mills <Brotusmill@aol.com> Laramie, WY - Thursday, May 29, 1997 at 00:51:52 (EDT) TIMBER FRAMES FOR SALE: Heartwood has a 12'x16' workshop frame for sale. It's rough sawn pine, 12/12 pitch gable roof. Ideal for small cabin, studio or storage building.Available early August; price $2500, not including delivery and erection on-site. Contact will@heartwoodschool.com for more info. Fellow Guild members Mark Brandt and John Miller have the frame produced by their workshop at Davis Elkins College (West Virginia) for sale. It's a planed oak & pine frame, 20'x24', 6/12 pitch gable roof, clear-span, with 2' overhangs at eave and rake. $7500 minimum bid; sealed bids being accepted now. Price includes cutting and test assembly; delivery and erection on-site extra. Contact Mark Brandt at 706-878-3256 for more details. Will Beemer <will@heartwoodschool.com> washington, ma usa - Sunday, May 25, 1997 at 12:35:19 (EDT) >Hello!!>>I am a student from Norway and I have got some questions for you.>I was wandering if you could tell me how many timberframehouses there>are in these countries:>- Canada>- USA>- New Zealand>- Australia and>- South Africa.>>I am working with a big task so I have got more questions.>>I was also wandering if you could tell me how the development in>timberframehouses has been the past 10 years in the same countries.>>I would also like to know how much forrest there are in these 5>countries, and how much of the wood goes to housebuilding.>>I would be very happy if you had some links that could be usefull for>me.>And I mean links to constructioncompanies in these 5 countries.>>I would be very happy if you could help me ansvering these questions.>>Yours faithflly>>Arve Johan Lilledrange>> Arve Johan Lilledrange <Lilledrange@oks.stud.his.no> Stavanger, Norway - Wednesday, May 14, 1997 at 08:28:14 (EDT) Great Site !We are Ireland's only Timberframes Consultants and designers. We'd be very glad to hear fromyou if you have any enquiries on the matter of Timber Frames House Construction ! Thomas Beggan <info@e-maginet.com> Kinvara, Co. Galway, - Ireland - Tuesday, May 06, 1997 at 08:25:25 (EDT) I am blowing the dust off the woodworking skills I learned in my boyhood from my father and this wonderful site will undoubtly be of great value for this task. Venezuela has an almost lost tradition of wood framing construction that stems from our spanish heritage and remains slightly only as part of the high end of home construction of our traditional families. It also remains in the construction of small boats and trawlers of the artesanal fishing industry. Juan Urich <oranpa@email.lagoven.pdv.com> maturin, monagas venezuela - Friday, May 02, 1997 at 20:07:52 (EDT) We currently have approximately 20 to 25 thousand board feetof hand hewn Red Oak timbers ranging in sizes from 8 X 8'swith some 14 X 14's. We also have several thousand bd/ft ofexterior barn wood and barn foundation stones. If you areinterested and want an estimate of cost please contact us atyour convenience. Kelly G. Wilson <lagnaf@nauticom.net> Greenville, PA USA - Friday, June 27, 1997 at 19:12:22 (EDT) Good site. I've just returned from the Fox Maple June Workshop. It was great. I need sources for timbers in theEast Texas area (including Arkansas, Louisana, Oklahoma, etc). Reclaimed long leaf pine, cypress (new or old), oak (new or old), or other. Prefer precision square planed. Thanks. Ross Canant <bandit@webwide.net> Greenville, TX USA - Friday, June 27, 1997 at 09:44:18 (EDT) interesting and informative site ibrahim shiaz <shiaz @hotmail.com> male', maldives - Thursday, June 19, 1997 at 06:11:53 (EDT) If anyone has any information or experience with radiant floor heatwithin a timberfram, please contact me. I am consideringsuch a system and would like to know the plusses and minusses. Karl Michels <kmarmichels@sprintmail.com> Spokane, Wa USA - Monday, June 16, 1997 at 01:07:34 (EDT) Please add us to your list. We would like to receive info about the guild. Kenneth Dick <kenginny@gte.net> Snohomish, WA 98295 - Friday, June 13, 1997 at 08:47:45 (EDT) We recently purchased some property in the U.P. of Mich. and were trying to locate an experienced timber frame builder in the Chatham ,Mich. area any interested parties can contact me at 815-623-7361 morning or early afternoon Dale Travis Roscoe, IL US - Thursday, June 12, 1997 at 13:29:40 (EDT) "IF THEY COME IT WILL GET BUILT"New E Mail address is: armor@tiac.netThose wishing to get on my Timber Framing mailing list just drop me your snail mail address.The news letter is designed to inform people about my house building project with all its ups and downs. Michael Martin <armor@tiac.net> Plattekill, NY - Thursday, June 05, 1997 at 15:46:04 (EDT) Looking for something to do before the TFGNA Conference? Howabout a trip to Cape Cod for a few days of timber work!Individuals interested in building a 20' covered bridge for a kids play ground on Cape Cod June 15-19 should contact Ian Ellison 508-430-0407 ASAP. Camp sites are provided forvolunteers. Individuals familiar with round log scribemethods needed but any skill level accepted. Reed Leberman - Monday, June 02, 1997 at 20:57:44 (EDT) HELLO, I AM LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON THE TIMBER FRAME HOME INDUSTRY. I AM INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHAT THE SIZE OF THE T.F. HOME INDUSTRY IS, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF NEW HOME STARTS ARE T.F., AND ANY OTHER MARKETING STATISTICS THAT ARE AVAILABLE. IF ANYONE HAS THIS INFORMATION OR KNOWS WHERE I MAY BE ABLE TO FIND THESE KIND OF STATISTICS MY MAILING ADDRESS IS P.O. BOX 391, POCOPSON, PA. 19366 THANKS, AND I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON. Paige Marra <RDHJM@AOL.COM> POCOPSON, , PA USA - Monday, June 02, 1997 at 15:08:27 (EDT) | ||||||||||
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