28'x50' Barn, broke ground this weekend

[jimdad07]

Setting floor joists with my homebrew boom stick.

https://youtu.be/hjpj1CZQSDs

[jimdad07]

Chain mortiser have me some fits but we got through it.

https://youtu.be/J_HPva1o_x8

https://youtu.be/mNTGBUkejUw

[jimdad07]

Had a good time with my middle kid last night.  She got to participate in the joinery cutting and had fun doing it.

https://youtu.be/we64bBdzgEQ

[PA_Walnut]

Great thread and motivational. Just about to begin a similar conquest with a VERY similarly sized building and frame. That boom invention is genius! Any particulars or tips?
Thanks.

[jimdad07]

Great thread and motivational. Just about to begin a similar conquest with a VERY similarly sized building and frame. That boom invention is genius! Any particulars or tips?
Thanks.

Good morning.  Only tip I can give you is to be patient and think outside the box if you're doing it alone.  Good luck to you, don't be afraid to video or take lots of pictures along the way.

[PA_Walnut]

Will do. In fact, my REAL job is in the video biz, so I'll document the whole thing with video.  ;D

[jimdad07]

Arts boy...I'm still learning the ins and outs of video work...getting there very slowly.

[PA_Walnut]

20 years and I'm still learning each day. Your videos look reasonable and informative, so you're doing something right. The best advice I'd give is to keep them short and sweet. Attention spans diminish exponentially with each generation.  :

[jimdad07]

20 years and I'm still learning each day. Your videos look reasonable and informative, so you're doing something right. The best advice I'd give is to keep them short and sweet. Attention spans diminish exponentially with each generation.  :

The last few I've shortened up a lot, trying new editing techniques and taking advantage of the iPhone 7 features.  Working on a shaving horse finally, half way through the project of course but the fourth video in that series I think came out much better than what I've been doing...time will tell.

https://youtu.be/OYhQCmIvGFo

[PA_Walnut]

Looks great and THANK YOU for using a mic.  :D
Are you getting decent metrics/views on your videos.

iPhone7 is a fabulous little tool. If you get your video out of the phone and into an edit app like Premiere, you'll really sail.

Thanks for the timber framing inspiration and the motivation to actually put together my shave horse that I cut parts for 10+ years ago! Seeking some nice white pine logs now to get sawing and stack them. My site is scheduled for excavation in 2 weeks!  8)

[jimdad07]

The channel is growing steadily, the views are climbing daily as well as the sub count.  Its slow but steady, I'm gaining 10 to 30 subs a day depending on what part of the week it is.  I use Davinnci Resolve for my editing after converting the video files to MP4 720P in Movavi.  The editing is actually enjoyable.

[PA_Walnut]

You are on a good path with Resolve! We use that exclusively now for both editing and color-grading. Love it. In fact, we have the full-blown Resolve with big control surfaces, etc. It's the bomb.

I hope my timber-framing project gets me out from behind the console though. Sanity break, for sure!

[jimdad07]

Been slow on updates here but I finally raised the final bent this weekend.

https://youtu.be/TT3pc3co9sU

https://youtu.be/Mn8z776Jkcc

[samandothers]

Congratulations, long journey.

[thechknhwk]

Beautiful barn, you've done a great job. 8)

[jimdad07]

Thank you guys, it's been slow going but worth it all the way so far.

[jimdad07]

Here's a milling video from yesterday.  Another long day but a good day.

https://youtu.be/dIN_MpE_9TE

[jimdad07]

As promised, we have a new scarf joint to layout and here's the how to, no time lapses in this one.

https://youtu.be/672V7Pl4vqI

[jimdad07]

This is the cutting of an edge-halved and bridled scarf joint.  This is the joint we laid out in the last video.  This one is super easy to cut.
https://youtu.be/kHqFm3LtIe8

[jimdad07]

Test fitted the scarf for the top plate last night.  It went pretty well for the first one.  So much easier to cut that scarf than the ones in my ties.  The rest I'll cut on the saw mill, cut the time in half.  This joint sure will solve my setting the top plate dillema.
https://youtu.be/914H-qa_PPw

[jimdad07]

Hard to make progress a couple of hours at a time but we are chopping away at it.  Here's another one doing our edge halved and bridled scarf joint on the band mill.
https://youtu.be/d-OSttNeUEo

[fishfighter]

You doing some fine work there.

[jimdad07]

Almost have this side of top plates ready to go.  It goes slow at a couple of hours a night but any progress is its own reward.

https://youtu.be/e50xlfNTkCM

[jimdad07]

Spent a day in the woods with the boy dropping trees for our timber frame project.  It was a good day and a safe one too, can't ask for more than that.  Enjoy the show.
https://youtu.be/1NToxPoqIaU

[michaelh_rley]

...I was all over the place with design ideas...

There's a useful tool https://hearthstonehomes.com/log-home-style-guide for anyone else experiencing the plight of the design aspect of their timber frame/log home projects.

It will get a lot of questions out of the way and can be a good reference for materials and pricing once you start the project also.