Saturday, December 12, 2009

Preassembly begins ...

... as the sun comes out in the afternoon. The snow actually stayed on two hours longer than predicted, mocking my weather forecast. Embarrassing ... how do you explain subgrid-scale orographic effects, a turbulent boundary layer, and the limitations of deterministic forecasts to a public wary of weathermen ...

All smiles now as Willy discovers to his pleasure that everything fits together. All measurements are punctuated by a "Perfect!" ... Willy says you never say "good enough" in front of a customer :-).

The saw is for cutting off the pegs that fasten the mortises to the tenons. That's timber framing jargon. The tenons are the parts that jut out at the end of a beam and the motises the holes in the beam that receive the tenons ... or is that the other way around?

The temporary power supply makes for a nice quiet worksite and easy access to power tools. Glad I did this ... don't need a diesel generator. The saw and drill actually inaugurated the power supply.

Viewers should click on all these photos to see how beautiful the timbers are. The sides of the timbers with marker on them will face towards the wall.

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