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What is the total number of years experience you have in Timber Framing and or Log construction (Round to the closest number))

1 year
43 (43.4%)
5 years
23 (23.2%)
10 years
16 (16.2%)
15 years
7 (7.1%)
20 years
3 (3%)
25 years
2 (2%)
30 years
2 (2%)
35 years
2 (2%)
40 years
1 (1%)
45 years
0 (0%)
50 years
0 (0%)
55 years
0 (0%)
60 years
0 (0%)
65 years
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 99

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Offline Jeff

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We are trying to figure out how many years of experience and knowledge this forum offers in certain areas. You will find similar polls on other boars such as sawmilling and the logging boards. This Poll is for Timber Framing and log type construction. Cord wood construction would fit as well I do believe.

When answering the poll, round to the nearest number, either up or down, what ever is closest. It would be just to much for the poll if we added an option for every year. What we will come up with by rounding will be a very accurate number for our total.
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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2008, 04:55:20 pm »
I finally after years playing in the sugar bush built the my log cabin, and am now working on the garage.

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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2009, 07:09:58 am »
If my log building experience was compacted to full time work it would be a little more than a year, I suppose.

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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2009, 02:08:37 pm »
I started in 1978 as a full time handscribe log builder.  Did 35 homes up to 1990.  Got tired of pushing a chainsaw...went back to school...learned AutoCAD and have been designing log homes (and other custom houses too) to present.  Guess that makes 40 years!  So 12 years hands on and a couple of hundred designs for 18 more.  I got stories....bet you do too!

(Sorry I haven't been on this Forum for a while.  Thanks for the reminder to get back on!)
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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2009, 07:03:18 pm »
I started out timber framing in the mid 80's and was there with the beginnings of TFGNA. It's been a nice career. I have a Wood Mizer LT40, with siding and resaw attachments, and I generally make all my buildings from scratch, starting with the logs. I'm also a general contractor, since I do the entire project from foundation to finish.

Before that, I grew up working with my grandfather, making post and beam barns and trusses using ring-and-plate joinery from WWII era technology--the same method used to create the giant blimp hangars in Texas and Oregon.

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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2009, 04:25:33 pm »
I know the blimp building in Tillamook.  That is one HUGE structure.  When I saw it last it had a nice tower crane inside.  Just Google
Tillamook blimp hanger for pix.
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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2009, 06:23:42 am »
Whoa Greg, does LHOTI know your having an affair with The Forestry Forum? lol

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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2010, 01:20:50 pm »

  Shame on me.  I just got around to posting my time on the poll.  GrandPa taught me but Dad was a stick framer and finisher for the most part.  Back in 1995 I went to work at a sawmill while in civil engineering school.  Sawdust got into my blood and I bought a mill in 2001.  When I could make my own timbers I started framing and do between 3 to 5 frames a year.  I am no snob and will frame with 4x4 on up and use steel or what  ever the customer wants.  Last big job was a hybrid or timber framing and stick framing.  Customer is right most of the time. ;D

 

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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2010, 01:01:59 pm »
I've been at it for 6 mos. But a carpenter for 25 years. things turned out well. I found most customers require guidance, like a teenager. I tell my customers that they need to treat their general contractor like a doctor. Tell me the problem, I'll do the operation. Keep your hands out of the way! The best thing aout TF is Im always shopping for Big and manly tools.LOL
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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2010, 08:19:08 pm »
ive been messing around at it for about a year started a saw shed this year . have learned a lot here and gained some valueable information. im a little slow on getting it finnished with working on some custom saw jobs here and there.
got some pictures in my gallery but havent learned learned how to post them yet. i have to helpers neighbor is 84 and his brother whos 78
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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2010, 09:38:44 am »
When I lived in North Dakota with my grandparents we built and rebuilt a few barns with Birch and Popular logs cut locally.  Didn't square them up just worked the ends to fit together and then sided the structure with sawmill lumber that was powered by a huge JohnDeere tractor PTO, maybe a #6?  Anyway maybe it amounts to 3 years combined over 6 or 7 summers.
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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2011, 08:56:23 pm »
I have deconstructing one barn, timberfamed two, built a pole barn and timberframed a kitchen ... in the last five years. I have an Alaskan Saw Mill ... slow but consistant. I am currently working on a nice set of Timber Framed Ponies to joint my addition on ... in my garage ... nights and weekends ... for the rest of my life! I joined this forum quite a long time ago and gained the knowledge I needed at that time. I revisit this forum tonight, saw this post and felt obligated to respond. I have several project in the works ... as do several others from what I read. Thanks for the venue, great site!

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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2011, 07:05:57 pm »
Am in the process of building a log home.  I have an old Foley's Belsaw with a 40" blade.  A John Deere 4610 tractor with front end loader and other attachments.  Lots of other junk I have gathered up over the past couple of years.  I have about 1 year experience in working with logs and no timber frame.   Built my own stick house in 1980 and covered it with rock and cedar.

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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2012, 05:57:08 pm »
I started building log and timber buildings in January of 1980 and have been at it ever since . Work mostly with white pine . Have an M30 enercraft sawmill that I bought new in 1993 . Good reliable mill but they were bought out by Baker and they moved to the Southern States from Ontario . Use a couple of gin poles for lifting the logs onto the building and a Komatsu WA120 for moving the logs to the building site ect. Been at it for over 30years and still really enjoy it. scouter Joe

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Re: Total of our experience-Timber Framing and Log type construction
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2012, 09:37:31 am »
Welcome to the Forestry Forum, Joe.

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