catvet
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I've been keeping a blog of my sawmill barn construction over the last several months.
http://northvermont.Blogspot.com
A bit of history. We have 57 acres about 20 miles from our home in Vermont. Last Feb I got a Timber King portable sawmill to make use of the trees on the property and to work on doing some building on the property. I've never built anything before so it should be an interesting challenge.
After moving the sawmill to the property I realized we probably wouldn't really be moving it around very much and that a building would make it much nicer for milling in lousy weather, be it winter cold, or summer sun.
I looked around and decided to go with the Socket Sytem setup since I figured I could use lumber that I milled from the property.
Settled on a 26' x 36' size. Pretty much the rest is in the blog. Used my Kubota B7800 for leveling the site and partway through convinced my wife an L39 would be a good thing to get.
You will need to go through the archives to see previous months work. The blog is arranged from most recent on back.
Any suggestions or comments appreciated. The next steps are to figure out how to close it in. I'm thinking about using large polycarbonate panels (4' x 8') for windows figuring at about $70 a piece they would be a lot cheaper than glass and are supposedly pretty much unbreakable. I'm looking for a lot of light and some wind protection. One of these panels would take up most of the space between a bent.
I need to keep the gable ends open for moving the logs, and lumber in and out, that's a major reason I went with a structure that didn't have an interior posts. Looking for a way to put a loft in. I'm planning on a wood floor over the crushed stone. I'm thinking vapor barrier and then a 2 x 6 frame directly on the vapor barrier with 2 by boards on top of that. I'm planning on the "joists" being 2 feet on center. I figure with the joists directly on the ground they won't deflect at all. The sawmill weighs about 1000 lbs and there might be a 2000 lb log on top of it. Also if I get the whole floor decked out in wood the tractor (at 8000 lbs) would be on it. Sometimes the tractor would be carrying one of those 2000 lb logs.
There is a bit of other stuff in the blog also. Hopefully interesting to some.
http://northvermont.Blogspot.com
A bit of history. We have 57 acres about 20 miles from our home in Vermont. Last Feb I got a Timber King portable sawmill to make use of the trees on the property and to work on doing some building on the property. I've never built anything before so it should be an interesting challenge.
After moving the sawmill to the property I realized we probably wouldn't really be moving it around very much and that a building would make it much nicer for milling in lousy weather, be it winter cold, or summer sun.
I looked around and decided to go with the Socket Sytem setup since I figured I could use lumber that I milled from the property.
Settled on a 26' x 36' size. Pretty much the rest is in the blog. Used my Kubota B7800 for leveling the site and partway through convinced my wife an L39 would be a good thing to get.
You will need to go through the archives to see previous months work. The blog is arranged from most recent on back.
Any suggestions or comments appreciated. The next steps are to figure out how to close it in. I'm thinking about using large polycarbonate panels (4' x 8') for windows figuring at about $70 a piece they would be a lot cheaper than glass and are supposedly pretty much unbreakable. I'm looking for a lot of light and some wind protection. One of these panels would take up most of the space between a bent.
I need to keep the gable ends open for moving the logs, and lumber in and out, that's a major reason I went with a structure that didn't have an interior posts. Looking for a way to put a loft in. I'm planning on a wood floor over the crushed stone. I'm thinking vapor barrier and then a 2 x 6 frame directly on the vapor barrier with 2 by boards on top of that. I'm planning on the "joists" being 2 feet on center. I figure with the joists directly on the ground they won't deflect at all. The sawmill weighs about 1000 lbs and there might be a 2000 lb log on top of it. Also if I get the whole floor decked out in wood the tractor (at 8000 lbs) would be on it. Sometimes the tractor would be carrying one of those 2000 lb logs.
There is a bit of other stuff in the blog also. Hopefully interesting to some.
With that said, when you go to clean those panels you will need to take extra care ! Just a suggestion, I use this stuff at work and its great stuff, but has some drawbacks.