![]() Quieter moments found everyone sitting along rollers and decks inside the mill listening to Dana Southworth answer questions about all aspects of sawmill operations, economics, and history.īen Southworth led an inspirational Sunday morning tour of his parents’ Passive Haus-standard high-performance home just across the country road from the mill. Sawmill demonstrations showed the various water-powered machines in operation, and participants were even encouraged to match wits with the edging machine to produce a clean, straight board from a tapered slab with bark on two sides. ![]() On the practical side, the GMT crew illustrated how the rain and snow falling into the watershed to the north and east journeys to the pond and into the mill, ultimately providing the motive power to saw the floating logs into the timbers, braces, and boards. The sawmill tour included many of the stories, history, and family lore that have surrounded Garland Mill from the mid-1800s through today. Matt Hammon, a stalwart Guild member and crew leader at Garland Mill Timberframes, did double duty as nineteenth-century sawmill tour guide and co-inventor (with Makaio Maher of Green Timber Works) of a fun trifecta of Woodcraft Olympic events in which Rendezvous teams competed. Saturday afternoon was a flurry of activity, both out in the notching yard and in the shop, where Ben Brungraber ( Fire Tower Engineered Timber) kept a packed house riveted on the endless possibilities, and complexities, of timber-framed structures. The completed pavilion frame will be donated to the town of Lancaster in memory of Tom Southworth and raised and roofed community-style next spring. The specifics of this informal gathering will be made known in advance. Timbers were fitted together, and though the frame was not finished, plans are being made to invite participants back to the Garland Mill in early 2020 to see their work through to completion. The learning as well as the notching proceeded from Saturday through Sunday morning. Beyond plumb line layout, the top, bottom layout, and compound miter/bevel saw sets were all developed directly on the timbers using simple drafting methods rather than relying on the calculator or CAD modeling. Subsequent drafting steps can lead to drafting and visualizing almost all angles needed for a valley or hip system, such as valley trough bevel angle. By focusing on the basics-plumb, level and the common pitch of a roof plan, hip or valley angle lines can be developed directly on the timber. Chris’ “unplugged” approach utilized mostly a simple plan view (as opposed to detailed individual timber drawings) and an intuitive step-by-step process to accurately reveal the joinery in-situ as the layout progressed. He, along with Kyle Whitehead, Garrett Mcentee, and Reed Leberman led participants through the conceptualization, layout, and notching of a hip roof system for a small pavilion. Pre-Rendezvous sessions on architecture and engineering, an engaging compound roof joinery workshop, observation of a fully operating water-powered sawmill, and a high-performance home tour kept folks moving, though there was also time to catch up with old friends and meet new ones.Īndrea Warchaizer ( Springpoint, Inc.) and Janet Kane got the event rolling on Friday with back to back participatory seminars-informative, practical, and hands-on application of architectural and engineering concepts at the heart of every timber frame structure.Ĭhris Barstow from Specialty Timberworks in Bethel, Maine, presented a two-day workshop focused on how to get rafters and ridges to cooperate when roof planes collide using traditional tools and no complex math. The Guild on Garland 2019 Rendezvous at Garland Mill Timberframes in Lancaster, New Hampshire, enjoyed the company of more than a few TFG long-distance runners and a goodly number of new and eager participants. Hard to spoil the soup with those ingredients. Forty-plus timber frame enthusiasts, crisp New England Fall weather, good food, and even better camaraderie.
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