Arched braced Truss

[Wooden Lungs]

[attachimg=2]Made two of these for a local builder will be fitting them next week so will post pictures of them up! Was so much fun making them.

 

[stvrowe]

Great work!  I look forward to seeing more pictures.

 

[ear3]

Wow, that's a "solid" piece of work.  Did you have help moving it around and fitting it?  That would be a tall order for one person.

 

[overanalyze]

Awesome!! More pics! How did you make the curve?

 

[Wooden Lungs]

Wow, that's a "solid" piece of work.  Did you have help moving it around and fitting it?  That would be a tall order for one person.

Yes the Oak is incredibly heavy as its green (Freshly felled and unseasoned). We use all manner of contraptions from tele handlers to dollies to electric pulleys. Its pretty dangerous work to be honest and you have to have your wits about you all the time. I had a set of wooden trestle's collapse under the weight of a 6m beam once and that was a brown trouser moment! One thing about green Oak is the lack of "dry" dust particles flying about as the water content in the Oak is a natural dampener when working it.

 

[Wooden Lungs]

Awesome!! More pics! How did you make the curve?

I made up the rafters, collar and stub posts then laid it all out square  [embarassed] then I made a trammel with a long piece of scrap douglas fir screwed to a trestle with the marking end I just drilled a pencil size hole in the douglas fir.
I cut some long and wide template pieces out of shuttering ply and these were placed below Oak beams before squaring.
Then I simply arched my cut lines onto the ply and slid it out from under the Oak. Then these were placed an pretty large slabs of Oak and cut with a portable bandsaw. There was a lot of waste from the arched braces as they had to be cut from rectangular pieces!! The rafters have a "Dart end" stop chamfer.Which is a very old English embellishment on Oak frames and some furniture.The mortices were massive! and I used a Slick to clean up the oversized and elongated tenons.

 

[tiralie]

Finally got these fitted. More treenails than I imagined. Client is chuffed and wants more Oak frame elsewhere on property.

That and the post about making these look great. Love this traditional green timber work.
Tim

 

[Billy stray]

Very impressive,  I'm seeing a trend here in new England of these becoming popular
Most I'm seeing are purely decorative though and built in place wich always makes me raise an eye brow as to why?
I don't think I've ever seen a portable bandsaw,  got a pic ?

 

[Lbob131]

My brother has a large braced truss  in his  front quite  high  hall.
It bears no structural weight.
I might have asked him  before he  started  "why"  also.
But now I see why. It looks fantastic.

 

[rizzoa13]

Love the use of the trammel arm. I built one to draw a large (to me) arch for an overhang on my front porch and nothing is cooler than seeing the trammel move in different ways to draw that perfect ellipse you want.  [thumbs up]

 

[jacko9]

Very impressive,  I'm seeing a trend here in new England of these becoming popular
Most I'm seeing are purely decorative though and built in place wich always makes me raise an eye brow as to why?
I don't think I've ever seen a portable bandsaw,  got a pic ?

Billy,

Timberwolf is not too far from where you live and if your interested in portable bandsaws;

http://www.timberwolftools.com/tools/kind/bandsaws.html

Jack

 

[Billy stray]

My brother has a large braced truss  in his  front quite  high  hall.
It bears no structural weight.
I might have asked him  before he  started  "why"  also.
But now I see why. It looks fantastic.

My "WHY" was more in reference to why not build it to be structural like these in the pics

Thanks jack09 I'll check it out

 

[jacko9]

My brother has a large braced truss  in his  front quite  high  hall.
It bears no structural weight.
I might have asked him  before he  started  "why"  also.
But now I see why. It looks fantastic.

My "WHY" was more in reference to why not build it to be structural like these in the pics

Thanks jack09 I'll check it out

Billy, I should mention that I bought the Mafell MT55cc Plunge Track Saw from Timberwolf and they are great people to deal with if you're interested in their products.

Jack