As I showed earlier I have the rear bay floor system completed. I am currently working on the sills of the middle bay. As you can see in the pic I have one beam laid out and the dovetail mortise and the edge halved scarf joint with bridled butts cut. Next to it is the opposing sill which will have the dovetail mortise for the other end of the dovetailed floor joist. This will be the second bay inside floor system but there will be another short 8ft. bay for a porch that will have a loft accessible from the inside. I hope this doesn't look too awkward when finished. I'm thinking of using floor joist hangers on the porch area because I keep picturing water filling up and causing all kinds of problems in my dovetail joints. Not sure how the Amish did this. Beside the floor system is one pine bent with braces (pictured earlier) and 3 more 8x8 sills. I still need to purchase about eight more 6x6's to complete the floor system. As you can see it is getting crowded in the garage! Once this is completed, squared and all joint are test fitted I plan to load them up and haul them to Georgia where they will sit stacked and covered in a makeshift tarp quansenhut sort of structure made out of pvc and sil nylon. Boy do I hope this all works out and the joints fit after the wood cures! Here are Pics below.
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