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Rendezvous at Gould Farm
July 15-30, 2000, Monterey, Massachusetts

Ground Breaking & Sponsors



Ground has broken at Gould Farm, site of the Guild's major raising this year. Guild member Phil Newey from South County Joiners in Great Barrington, Mass., is general contractor, Daniel Cryns of Gould Farm is project manager, and Joel McCarty is drawing the 36 x 56-ft. barn. The frame is a traditional American canted queen post and purlin design with common rafters; square rule layout will be used on the hemlock timbers.



We thank the following very generous donors to the project:

    Sponsors
  • Chase Manhattan Foundation
  • Katherine L.W. & Wintrhop M. Crane III Charitable Foundation
  • First Mass Bank
  • Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Larkin
  • Massachusetts Portable Sawmill Association
  • Florence Schwartz
  • Timber Framers Guild
  • Leigh Tryon, Tryon Construction, Monterey, MA
  • Doug Trumbull and Ann Vidor, Entertainment Design Workshop, Sheffield, MA

    Gifts of Goods and Services
  • Jim Barbieri of Barbieri Lumber, Housatonic, MA
  • Mike Carlotto, Carlotto Trucking, Stockbridge, MA
  • Certainteed Corp., Valley Forge, PA
  • Martin Clark
  • Dicken Crane, Holday Farm, Dalton, MA
  • Domaney's, Great Barrington, MA
  • Richard Epstein, Better Roofing Materials Co.
  • Denny Hambruch, Mafell North America, Williamsville, NY
  • Steve Harding
  • Ed Herrington, Inc., Hillsdale, NY
  • Bill Moffitt, Olympic Fasteners, Agawam, MA
  • Maxymillian Technologies, Pittsfield, MA
  • Ray Tryon and the Monterey Fire Company
  • Mt. Everett Sanitation, Great Barrington, MA
  • Scott Northcott of Walpole, New Hampshire, for the pegs used in the barn
  • David Reeder and Karin Sprague
  • Tailored Events
  • Roger Tryon, Lowland Farms, Monterey, MA
  • Whitney & Sons, Pittsfield, MA

    July 29th Event Underrwriters
  • Timber Frame Homes Magazine, Chantilly, VA
  • Town of Monterey

    Others
  • Norm Hicks has provided some very long pine timbers for the plates and continuous tie-beams that will allow the traditional frame pattern (of continuous tie beams) possible.
  • The Massachusetts Portable Sawmill Society, whose members sawed the logs on site July 15-16. They are:
    • Jim and Karla Clarke of Igloo Charlie's Woodsmen, Ashfield, Mass.
    • Chip Smith of Chip Smith Wood Products, Russell, Mass.
    • Tyler Higginbotham of Old Mountain Sawmill in Pittsfield, Mass.
    • Ted Koopman, Sales Rep for Timber Harvester in New England
    • Jim Rogers of Jim Rogers Sawmill, Georgetown, Mass.
    • Jeff Carnivale of Simonds Industries, Fitchburg, Mass., whose company donated the Simonds saw blades for the portable sawmills
    • Bob Reimels of Middleborough, Mass.

Brian, Phil Left: Brian Snyder, Executive Director of Gould Farm, and Phil Newey, timber framer and GC.


Progress to Date
The concrete is in (except for the slab), and the foundation is backfilled. Cutting of the timbers is going on in a barn dedicated in October 1996 and built from timbers felled by a tornado a few years before; the barn was raised with the help of a group of Pennsylvania Amish. Below are some photos of the timber cutting, foundation and site work.



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The barn's foundation. The new 36 x 56-ft. barn will house a full-scale food processing operation: a licensed commercial kitchen, a root cellar, a classroom, and a marketing office for Gould Farm Products. Right: Existing barns to the right of the foundation.

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Larry Newey
Deck timbers are being cut in a new red barn. Above, members of Phil's team (clockwise): Scott Jenssen, Wayne Dunlop, and Larry Newey.



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Scott uses a hand planer to smooth a timber.

Barn

The barn where the timber framers are working was built following the 1995 Memorial Day tornado that roared through Monterey and did tremendous damage to the area's buildings and trees.


Wooden sign

Inside the barn is a carved wooden plaque that reads, "Dedicated October 6, 1996. This barn stands as a symbol of community cooperation in the prevailing spirit of Gould Farm. The lumber was milled from farm trees, felled by the Memorial Day tornado, 1995. The foundation was prepared by neighboring tradesmen. The barn was raised by volunteer labor of Amish and Mennonite men from Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and Massachusetts, and neighbors under the auspices of Mennonite Brethren. ..."



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The barn is set in the rolling hills of Monterey, Mass, with sheep and llamas providing pastoral ambience at the job site.

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Another view of the foundation.



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