Blah, Blah, Blah. Did anyone reallty understand what I was saying? I need to work on my videography!

A Little Progress to Fuel Motivation for the rest of The Project.

The rafters are resting in the mortises cut into the top plate. The rafters will be approx 1.5 ft higher giving that much more headroom. It won't be spacious but there will be sufficient headroom with the peak about 9 ft off the floor. The kneewall will be 3 1/2 ft.

                                      

                                      

I'm gonna have to work on the joints a little in this top plate. Need to make them about a 1/16 of an inch wider.

Overall I'm pretty satisfied with how the rafters fit.  

I got some new members to my mighty little barn family. I've been on vacation now about 20 days and was expecting to have accomplished quite a bit on the barn project, but with going to Gainsville where our daughter goes to college, trip to Georgia for 6 days of camping and working on the land, all the stuff that has to be done around the house and also buying a car for Caitlin, I just havn't gotten alot done. My next concern is the fact that it's getting pretty hot during the day here. Last year at one point I decided to stop completly until it got cool enough to work outside during the day and I've got a feeling it won't be long till I won't be able to get much done until it cools off.

Here's what I'm up to now. I still have two more post to complete and the top plate that I'm working on here is one of six. After that I have twenty eight rafters to cut. The rafters are pretty easy and straight forward. These rafter seats are one of my least favorite to do. I just cut one incorrectly, had something else on my mind and didn't measure enough. The joint will still work but the bearing area for the rafter tail was reduced quite a bit. I'll try to explain on another video.