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[JB4310]

Nice looking machine and Timber frame building.

It's pretty cool how there's still people that can dismantle and reconstruct them like that, giving them another 100 + years of life.

About it feeling like a cathedral, physically with the geometry of the exposed beams from the posts all the way to the roof, I can see what you're talking about, kinda like the columns and vaulted ceilings of an older style church.

But in a metaphysical sense you also have some of the same characteristics of Hope, faith, survival, shelter. Maybe not you as much, the modern owner but the original owner/builder would of been more dependent on that structure for those traits.

I love history and to think of who was here before me, I would definitely be thinking of the life and people that building provided for, when in there during quiet times.

Really not to far a stretch, look at the massive timbers that make up the framework of this huge 125 year old church I work on, this was on the lowest level of 4 levels of catwalks in the attic. all wood trusses, no steel except bolts and straps, look at the size of the ceiling and roof these are holding up.

 

[Gypsy Rose]

Actually an old timber frame off my parents farm.

Great that you were able to salvage it. When properly built, those frames were good for hundreds of years (unlike so many of our contemporary buildings that will be lucky to outlast the mortgage).

Timber framing is a beautiful art- I have a whole new appreciation for it. I don't want to offend anyone, but standing in it at dusk with the light pouring in on the beams is like being in a cathedral for me.

I feel the same way. Now that I've got a few new timber framed buildings in the plans (one under construction), I find myself stopping at all the barns I took for granted as a kid. Poking around inside them I've found evidence of some terrific craftsmanship and engineering among those still standing.

All the best for 2010,

Kevin