Bundwerk barn

[SamQ aka Ah! Q!]

Magnificent looking building!

Seconded, with emphasis!

What an absolute work of Art.

 

[GaryR]

I believe that he is nailing only through the battens in the gap between the boards, but I'll ask him.

 

[Mike G]

This is turning into quite a special building. To my mind, it's a pity to see press metal sheeting on the roof instead of a "natural" material such as slate or clay tiles. Steepening the pitch and thatching it would also have been wonderful, but thatching isn't a big thing in the States as I understand it.

 

[Cabinetman]

I believe that he is nailing only through the battens in the gap between the boards, but I'll ask him.

Thank you, yes quite agree re the battens being nailed and them holding the planks in place but my understanding is that a single nail in the centre of the plank is used to hold the planks in place then the battens are fitted. Maybe they can’t be seen as they’ve been nailed using a nailgun with small heads?

 

[GaryR]

Thank you, yes quite agree re the battens being nailed and them holding the planks in place but my understanding is that a single nail in the centre of the plank is used to hold the planks in place then the battens are fitted. Maybe they can’t be seen as they’ve been nailed using a nailgun with small heads?

Yes, exactly like that: Reuben says,

One 8d galvanized ring shank nail squarely in the middle of the board, roughly every three feet or so where I had blocking, and then a 16d* galvanized nail through the middle of the batten into the same blocking, trying to get the nail through the crack between the boards.

And yes, he is using a nail gun.

 

[GaryR]

This is turning into quite a special building. To my mind, it's a pity to see press metal sheeting on the roof instead of a "natural" material such as slate or clay tiles. Steepening the pitch and thatching it would also have been wonderful, but thatching isn't a big thing in the States as I understand it.

Thatch is essentially non-existent here, especially on the west coast.

I can't speak for Reuben but I know that one of his goals is to do most of this work himself on a budget using local materials when possible. He is a carpenter by profession and has installed a lot of metal roofs so he knows that system. He likes them because they are light weight, durable, fire resistant (a big deal when you are building in a forest in Oregon) and recyclable. They also match the roofing on the other buildings in the compound.

I think he might have considered clay tiles but I know that would have substantially changed the roof design and the cost.

 

[GaryR]

The annual fall invasion of box elder bugs (Boisea trivitatta). Harmless but a nuisance pest when they go looking for a warm place to spend the winter and that warm place is your house or barn. And there can be a lot of them.

 

[Cabinetman]

The annual fall invasion of box elder bugs (Boisea trivitatta). Harmless but a nuisance pest when they go looking for a warm place to spend the winter and that warm place is your house or barn. And there can be a lot of them.


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Hope I don’t have a plague of them when I get home Gary, they look most annoying, but the brill joints make up for them. I’d love to see one like it in real

 

[GaryR]

 

[GaryR]

The siding is almost done. When that is finished the barn will be closed up for the winter and Reuben goes back to his regular job/paying work until the Spring.

 

[GaryR]

All done for now. Temporary doors in place to keep the woodland critters out during the winter. Building will resume in the spring.

 

[Cabinetman]

Looks absolutely stunning, very Tyrolean to my eyes.

 

[wallace]

I bet the smell inside is amazing.

 

[TrimTheKing]

I am jealous beyond words of this! Stunning space, beautifully designed and somewhere I would absolutely love to call my own and work in!

 

[GaryR]

I mentioned the doors to keep out woodland critters. One in particular is the packrat, so-called because they gather whatever is nearby to build their nests.

For years Reuben has been storing a stash of old woodworking machines that are destined for his bundwerk barn in a shipping container on site. When he opened the container to move the first of the machines into the barn he saw this:

 

[HdV]

The stone martens around here are known to create a real mess wherever they create their nest. But this is on a different scale.

 

[Cabinetman]

Crikey they’ve been working hard, surprised they could get into a shipping container, unless it was a bit porous in places? But messy and everything suspect of causing Weiles disease. I hate vermin!

 

[wallace]

That is a very odd spindle moulder. what breed is BG

 

[GaryR]

I believe it is a German machine: Bottger-Gessner. Reuben bought it at auction from somewhere in Canada.

http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=13033

 

[GaryR]

Reuben is back at work on the barn. This summer's task is to make what he is calling "The Annex," an approximately 20ft x 20 ft addition to the right (as you are facing the front of the barn). The site is tucked behind the saw mill. You can see the rough opening into the barn.



Since the site is sloped he needs to pour piers.

Not being afraid of hard labour, he is mixing the concrete by hand.




And it is handy to have a sawmill and Douglas fir logs just a few steps away.




And some oak logs as well.