One more little step forward.... Sill 'A' is complete!  Got the joints cut and, now that I know better, put on the Anchor Seal.

Wow, been a while.  A few things have happened I suppose.  Mostly lots of changes to 'the plan'.  One of the big ones is the location of the finished Timber Frame shed I have been working on.  I think we are going to put it in West Virgina instead of the back yard.  Long story :-).

If you have ever read the short called "Sequences" by Patrick McManus you'll have a deep appreciation for the ripples on both sides of the cause and effect that came from this change.  One of them was the decision to build a little post and beam wood shed as a thank you gift for our friend who donated a bunch of wood for the big shed.  I have been cutting beams from trees that had come down in the yard due to either storms or thining for a couple of years now.  Problem is there was one more tree and I don't really need any more beams, so....

The screen capture here shows the design I came up with.  Pretty simple.  They have a fireplace that they use a few times a season so it doesn't have too be all that big.  Need to keep the firewood up off the ground and the weather off.

Wood Shed Design

The small size drove the timber size to 4x4 posts so there was really no way to do timber frame joints so went with metal fasteners, post and beam style. Still like the timber frame look though so put some lap joints in to give it a little bit of effect.

Beams, Ready to Assemble

Next photo is all of the timbers cut and ready to go.  For such a small little thing the pile ended up a lot bigger then I expected.  Of course this also means it took much longer than anticipated as well.  Twice the cost and four times as long as the estimate as I am often told by certain other people near and dear to me.

Mostly Finished

Last shot shows the decking going on. At this point I was doing an hour or so at a time after work so it took one more trip to get the shingles down, in the rain of course.  Need to get back over and see how it looks with some wood stacked up....

Laying Down the Decking

Well, another beam done :-).  Short girt this time, one more of them then 4 sills next.

Well.... found out what the problem was with the girt not fitting.  I didn't (don't) understand housings very well.  So, I had to remodel the entire top half of the timber frame shed and take off half an inch. This is a pretty big DIY project after all....

Good case of 'the more I learn the less I know'.  Must need to learn some more, wait, that makes it worse.  Also turns out that some some of the joints that TF Rubies were suppose to be automatically cutting weren't.  Modeled incorrectly, of course ;-).  I now have a much better understanding of how they work and how to set up the joint.

Ever have one of those times when you're looking for the answer, and it's just not coming?  Not in the help file, not in the faq, even Google can't find it.  Oh, that button front and center on the main tool bar exercises the function.  And the icon is oh so obvious.  Won't quickly forget that lesson.

Well, step forward on the shed, finished post #4.  I was pretty excited.  The next timber to cut joint in is the top beam.  Had to mill off 3/4 of an inch, good to get the saw going after several months.  Brought it in the shop then got quite a surprise when I went to mark up the shop drawings.  One of my knee brace joints isn't working :-(.  I'll have to figure out how to take care of it....

Wow, been a while.  Finally got a new lens published.  Do it Yourself Timber Frame.  I would like to see if this one will make it up the list a bit in the search engines.  It's pretty unique content so perhaps....

Edits on 'internet Life'

Visited the land, did some shooting, now trying to put Intersecting the Internet into better order and add the bit about collaborative writing....