sawing out a house

[Planman1954]

Finally thawed out enough around here to get back outside to the mill. I took a photo of the shingle cants loaded on the 4 jigs. It's time to make shingles!   ...12 at the time.

 

[1GUNRUNNER]

No tar paper or at least vapor barrier? 

[trailman]

i once worked for a builder who built a house in a very wet spring time. the frame wasnt very dry before the drywall went up and later on drywall screws were poping every where.!

[Planman1954]

Trailman:   The shingles are on a barn. I'm going to use wood on all the interior as well as the exterior...no sheetrock. I do plan on using a kraft backed insulation for an interior vapor barrier.

There is no felt under the shingles so that they can stay dry all the time...this will help to reduce rot. (You may want to read the earlier posts on this thread). I hope ya'll have a good weekend!  Go Saints...

Planman

[JD350Cmark]

  Planman -  Looks good.  Do you have to turn the cants after each cut to get a taper on each set of shingles?

[Planman1954]

No JD. The cants stay put on the jig. If you look back on page 4 of this thread, about half way down the page on the second photo of the jig, you'll see a little stick. All I do is walk the line after each cut and flip all the sticks up, or flip all the sticks down. This gives a taper. They work pretty well. I do get a little vibration sometimes on a cant here or there, but that is due to a little bit of slack between the cant bottom and the side of the jig. I just put a little taper wedge along the bottom of the cant, and the thing usually stops shaking so bad. Also, I've found that the dimensions on the scale for each cut is: Sticks up..1/4" cut.  Sticks down..5/8" cut. Works like a champ. Oh, and I walked out to the barn today in the rain...just for kicks to look up to see if there was any water under the area that is covered... Thank GOD! It worked.

[paul case]

plannman   
hows the shingles holding up?
pc

[Planman1954]

They're holding up better than me! I've still not gotten all of them on. I'm still tryin' though. It's slow doing all the work yourself....from logs to installed (and stained) finished product. I plan on posting a photo of the finished roof soon...I hope. And also, this week I'm rebuilding my father's old trailer...completely. The last load of large logs killed it. I got the boards and bolts off of it today before it began to rain, and have a buddy lined up for Monday to re-weld the broken supports. I'm going to grind all the metal, prime it, paint it, recut boards and paint them (Not the bottom side) and install them. Then I'll put on new lights, and I should be good to go for many years...Anyway that's the plan from the Planman1954!!

Here's a before photo of the 45 year old trailer:
 

[paul case]

planman,
does it look any different yet? i was wondering if you been roofing lately with it being so hot.pc

[Planman1954]

It does look a little better. Not through with the shingles yet though. I had to stop last week and do the trailer restoration that I showed in the General Board thread. I cut 28 cants (2 runs ) of shingles yesterday and this morning. I'll start putting them on Monday morning. I''ll problably have to do about 8 more full runs of 14 cants to have enough to finish. Thatl be about another 30 short logs worth...That's why it takes so much time... but I'll persevere. I'll post a finished pic when it's completely done.
Later

[paul case]

 







 there is some pics of the addition to the house. the first is live edge erc paneling. the second is red oak lap paneling or wall board. the third shows the steel exterior. pc