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The Macon County Library project
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Cabin Creek Timber Frames
In 2004, Architect Tom Ritter asked the timber
frame designers at Cabin Creek Timber Frames to
design a timber frame structure based on his
tentative ideas and plans. He then submitted it to
the Macon County Board of Commissioners for their
approval. His design was accepted and the project
was put out for bid. Cabin Creek Timber Frames then
submitted their cost proposal for the central core
that was to be timber frame construction to several
of the general contractors that bid on this project.
On December 2005, we were informed by Perry
Bartsch of Asheville, NC that we had been chosen to
do the central timber frame core of Macon County's
new library. The new library will be on Siler Rd,
Franklin, NC 28734.
Since we had in the mean time signed contracts
for other timber frame work, Tracy Bailey went about
contacting our clients. Interestingly enough, they
acquiesced to our request to postpone work on their
projects so that we might do the library. It turned
out that their sites were not going to be ready
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Macon
County Library Timber Frame by Cabin Creek Timber Frames
Timber Frame Design & Raising
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The New Timber Frame Library has been raised
and the roof panels are being set in place May
24, 2006 |
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See the first bent of the Macon County Library
being raised into place.
All of the bents are
assembled before the time of the actual raising. As the
raising begins, the first bent is lifted by a large
crane and moved into its position and secured.
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The second bent of the Macon County Library being
raised into place.
After the first bent is moved
into place, the second bent is raised and brought over
to the next position. The purlins will then be placed,
joining the first and second bents together.
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The purlins connect the bents.
After each bent
is raised, the purlins between the last to two bents are
placed.Click
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Manuel Hernandez, Joe Ezechel, Joshua Ezechel, John
Booker, Steve Hinman and Robert Funderburk sit atop the
sixteen hundred plus pound Douglas Fir connecting girt
on the new Macon Country Library's porte-cochere.
Cabin
Creek Timber Frames finished raising the timbered entry
way and porte-cochere the second week in July 2006.
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The timber frame is constructed of over 35,000
board feet of Douglas fir.
The wood for this
project reached us on THREE flat bed trailers from
Washington state.
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Here the second of three flat bed trailers has
arrived from Washington state with the Douglas fir
for the Macon County library project. It takes
forty-four hours driving time to get from the mill
in Washington state to our beamery here in Macon
County. |
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Here Manuel is using our Gehl forklift to
unload twelve 6" x 10" x 16' Douglas fir
timbers into the beamery. |
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Stacking the 28' Douglas fir timbers |
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Douglas fir stacked, waiting to be laid out. |
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Ready for individual lay out. |
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John Booker laying out rafter |
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Hammer beam end being worked
into an OGEE |
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- Bent 1 (far left) is a queen post bent of Douglas
fir.
- Bents 2, 3, 4, 5 (counting from the far left) are
double hammer beam bents of Douglas fir.
- Bent 6 (from far left) is a single hammer beam
Douglas fir bent.
- Bent 7 (from far left) is a queen post bent of
Douglas fir.
- The timbered breeze-way is also Douglas fir of a
simpler timber frame construction.
- The porte-cochere (far right) has queen post
bents on both ends of Douglas fir.
- The center bent of the porte-cochere is a king
post bent of Douglas fir.
Trial Assembly of Double Hammer Beam bent #3 |
Trial Assembly of another Double Hammer Beam
bent here in our beamery, bent #2 |
Double Hammer Beam bent #4 being trial fit here
in the beamery, prior to being drilled for peg
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Double Hammer Beam bent #5. |
Queen Post bent #7 for drilling. |
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Once the timber frame sections
are assembled here in the beamery, the holes for
the pegs are predrilled. Pre-drilling the peg
holes helps assure tight re-assembly on the job
site. |
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Here Manuel is back drilling
the peg holes where this knee brace intersects
with the post of this section of the timber
frame wall. |
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Our timber framers, (pictured are Steve,
Joe E., Manuel, and John (drilling)) are fine
tuning the assembly of this timber frame wall
and predrilling the holes for the pegs. |
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Here Joshua checks a joint on
this single hammer beam bent (bent #6) in the
timber frame that will make up the center core
of the new Macon County Library. |
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These photos show the timber frame being
prepared for delivery to the job site. Since the
job site was only 6 miles from our beamery, we
were able to haul it there our selves. |
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Here Joe E. is using our
smaller forklift to load onto the truck for
delivery.
You are also able to see our
timber frame office building and single hammer
beam entry porch in this shot. |
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If you look very carefully, you will notice that
each timber has been marked with its exact location as
to where its location IS in the timber frame. |
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Here the pre-cut, pre-fit
sections of wall panels that will go into bent
the walls are off loaded at the Siler Road job
site. |
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Here Joe E. is using our
smaller forklift to load onto the truck for
delivery.
Here bent #6 is being
reassembled on the Siler Road job site. This
bent has SIP wall panels to be fit into the non
Douglas Fir areas of this bent as it is being
reassembled. The straw & large wooden locks
set out on the ground will help keep the
timberframe clean until the time comes to fly
into place with the help of |
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Here you are able to see how the
structurally insulated panels have been pre-cut,
pre-fit to fit snuggly in bent #7 of the timber
frame. Please note that in this photo this bent
has not been totally reassembled yet. |
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The bent closest to the ground
in this photo is a queen post bent. Atop the
queen post bent rests a double hammer beam bent.
These bents are in the process of being
reassembled on the Siler Road jobsite. If you
will look closely you can see the knee braces
placed where the next double hammer beam bent
will be reassembled. |
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Pictured here are the timber
framers of Cabin Creek reassembling this double
hammer bent on the jobsite.
Steve, Joe E., Joshua, Manuel,
John and Kevin are pictured. |
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Joshua drives several of the
pegs into place while John and Joe E. move a
strut into position.
On the new Macon County
Library project we are employing octagonal
locust pegs. These pegs are one inch in diameter
and vary in length depending on the situation.
One occasionally hears of
trunnels being employed. Trunnels are usually
two inches in diameter and are usually hand
fashioned and used primarily in restoration
work. |
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Above are more pictures of the onsite reassembly:
here you can see the pegs being hammered into place by
large wooden mallets. Pictured below are some of the
eight hundred pegs that the children of Macon County
signed that are being used to hold their library
together. |
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Pictured here is the artists conception of what the
new Macon Library will look like when completed.
Cabin Creek Timber Frames looks forward to being
able to bring you pictures of the raising when the time
comes. Please check back with us on the this same
website http://cabincreektimberframes.com
for more photos. |
Learn More ...
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The
Franklin Press
An article on the Macon
County Library project. The timber frame structure is
being constructed by Cabin Creek Timber Frames. |
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The
Friends of the Library Newsletter
Another
article on the Macon County Library project. The timber
frame pegs are being signed by children at the school
for later use by Cabin Creek Timber Frames. |
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Cabin Creek
Timber Frames
info@cabincreektimberframes.com |
6624 Georgia Rd.
Franklin, NC 28734 |
Toll Free Phone:
(877) 369 - 5899 |
Phone: (828) 369 -
5899
Or (828) 349 - 0734 |
Fax: (828) 369 -
8512 |
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