Rest of Oak Timber Glued
This morning, we finished gluing the last fifteen sets of Oak timber, only using 5 set of clamps (as our new ones haven’t arrived yet). We had to wait for…
First Set of Oak Timber Joined
This afternoon, after lunch, we finished off planing the various pieces of the Oak Timber so they are ready for the job of gluing them together to form wide enough…
Oak Timber Still Continues to be Processed
These last few days have been somewhat disrupted with various external meetings and other commitments and the work on sorting out, planing and processing the Oak Timber have been patchy.…
Oak Timber Sorted and Being Processed
Today, the all the timber pieces were sorted, measured and recorded in a new spreadsheet. We now have a realistic list of timber pieces with known minimum widths and we…
Oak Timber Work Continues
This afternoon, the task of passing our Oak Timber through our Planer Machine to produce one straight flat edge continues. The remaining pieces (about 20 lengths) were completed. Then the…
Final Five Inside Corners Trimmed!
The last task of the day was to adapt our template that we have been using to trim the top of our cement boards on our walls so we can…
Planer Machine Has Been Extended
Today we finished off the task of building two extension tables for our Planer Machine. On Saturday, we had our double thickness OSB boards all set from the gluing and…
Planer Machine Grows Longer!
Today, we settled down to analyse the planer machine to learn what is happening when we try to plane larger pieces of Oak timber and why it is coming out…
Oak Timber Continues Being regularised
The task continues today of processing each Oak timber piece to regularised them into flat and straight consistent planks of wood. The smaller widths are now done. But the wider…
Walls All Trimmed Almost!
The task of trimming the tops off the walls in between the rafters continues today and now the majority have been done with only the inside corners left to do…