Some pictures from a company that has done the indoor lightning. www.portalidea.hr/en/project/sv-german-np-brijuni/

Funny :) but I swear I never been to Croatia ;)

When she finish it and she'll send me picture or video I'll try to incorporate this in an other episode

Most defenetly, it would be great to see another timber frame house, in a green house style, great job.

KSFWG Yeah 👍 Definitely 👍 Hope she's videos it, & Everything 🖖👍🙏

Thanks, but even if I'm glad being back inside the shop, I miss a little bit the fun I had over there ;(

Yes she had no idea how to make that, and she made it by herself.

Thank you

Thank you. But my nastiest comments are about my bad English. I know trolls are everywhere and my English is not that bad, but maybe some people can't understand that for us French Canadian the H's are hard to prononced.

Alain Vaillancourt Don't worry about people making rude comments about your speech. You speak very well. Here in the US most of the people I work with and run into day to day can't read past a 3rd grade level, can barely spell and write and those are the College Graduates.

I suggest you ignore the bad comments with contempt that they deserve. I am British, I speak English and I know exactly what you are saying. I enjoy your videos and I thank you for sharing your skills.

I really appreciate the subtitles. I'm autistic, and though his English is very good, I can't understand the words very well because of the accent. With the subtitles I can hear his words perfectly. It happens with other accented English speakers too, from Texas to Australia and everywhere in between. I never complain though, I just find ways to work around it if there aren't any subtitles on other videos. I think his accent is spectacular by the way, as well as others. I'm from south dakota but when I go south people ask if I'm from Canada lol. So I get it too when I travel. Heck, I even get it in my home state when I use certain words Haha.

Finally good answer!

Yes I still have this table saw, but I rarely use the sliding table since I bought a nice mitre saw. I use it when I need to cut a piece wider than the mitre saw. It's not tin the way but I had to remove the left wing of the saw so I can't use the mitre gauge on the left of the blade, sometime I wish it was possible. but still, it's working nicely

Hi Daniel, just go to my website thewoodpecker.net an they're in the plans section

You're welcome. I always put closed captioning in French and English on all my videos

Thanks :)

That depends where you live. In Europe it's mostly oak. But around here it's hemlock or pine. Hemlock is brittle if you drop it on the ground but pine has bigger nuts but looks better when sanded. I've used hemlock since it's cheaper and I didn't intended to sand it.

Yes it was a Veritas scew rabbet plane. With this plane it's easy to get the tenon's corners.

Merci Alain!

I had to read a bunch of books to make them. but to calculate the size of the timber I uses a book and rechecked my calculation with the web site the forestry forum

When I build my shop I bought a book for the load charge. TIMBER FRAME ENGINEERING I n L i m i t S t a t e s D e s i g n. Than I went to the website the forestry forum and they had an online load calculator, I'm not sure if they still have it?

This is so helpful! Thank you so much, it was really kind of you to get back to me with this. All the best

It's my pleasure. I'm always frustrated when I ask a question on a KZfaq video and never get any answer... They're no way in the world that I'm this impolite... I don't encourage trolls, so I never answer on bad comments...

to get a real tight fit, yes. But I shoed Caroline how I did it. With 450lb rafters it was too much trouble removing them to ofset the peg's holes, so I've screwed it frrom the top with 18" wood screws to push it down and then I added a peg. For a 20 lbs 4X4 like she used, yes I would had offset the pegs it's easy to remove the rafter and put it back again. But I'm pretty sure she won't be using 4X4's it will probably be longer 6X6's which are a bit more heavy.

If only I had some time in my hand..... I can't wait to take my early retirement.... still 2 years to go...

I showed her waht I did on my shop; I didn't draw bored my mortices, because of the weight of my wooden pieces. It would had been too difficult to put hem in place mark the hole remove the 350 pounds piece of wood drill it and put it back in place. You have to remember, I managesd to find volunteers to help me put it all together so I didn't want to take the chance of having one of them hurting him/her self. So I told Caroline to drill for pegs and to add screws from the top where they will not show, this way she'll be all covered, and on top of it all I'm not sure how much help she would get so I showed what one lady can do by herself alone.

Alain Vaillancourt vgv

No this pastern is for this roof slope. I made another one for the roof slope of my shop, but it's quite easy to make, if you draw your roof slope with a 3d cad program. Or if you're good with a pencil and a ruler.

This is my rabet plane www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=59999&cat=1,230,41182,48945

Go to my website thewoodpecker.net there in the Plans section you will find the pattern, if I remember correctly I have it on the plan of this truss and on the plan of the whole shop

Yes I know. but I didn't do that on my shop, and I showed Caroline what I did. I didn't do that on my shop for 2 reasons; first lifting pieces close to 200Kg alone with no machinery is something to hurt yourself, so I moved the pieces only when it was absolutely necessary. Second the tie beams were twisted so on sawhorses it was impossible to untwist them to drill an offset hole. So to untwist them I screwed them to the top plate with 40cm screws, this untwisted the tie beams and the rafters were sitting flat on them after. And at the end I screwed the rafters to the tie beams and the top plate with 50cm screws. But it's all in the video I made about the raising of the shop structure. This small rafter was just a mock up of the "real" one I have in my shop

I spent a lot of days making the 10 rafters of my shop. But I spent an enormous amount of time to build it all.

This particular one, only a day. But it was just an exercise half he actual size, On my shop I made 5 of them, and the easiest pieces were the tie beams, I was able to mortise 2 beams per day. Then the rafter, since they need to have pretty accurate cuts this took a while, I think one rafter per day, and then the king post, this was fairly complicated but since it was only about 150lbs it was faster to make. What was taking the longest time, was moving around beams that weight 350lbs by hand, just me and my wife. This exercise was super easy the 4x4 were easily manageable.

No not for this exercise, Caroline needed to take this apart so she could bring it to her home. But on my shop, which has the exact same design, just twice the size, I screwed two 15" structural screws at the top of each rafter, and two 18" at the bottom, on top of the mortise/tenon.

Les trous on été percé a travers la mortaise et le tenon en même temps. C'est pas avec un ofset, je voulais que ce sois facile à démonté et avec moins de chance de briser le bois a chaque démontage. En fait je m'en sert que très peu souvent je ne veux pas les gardés assemblé mais je veux quand même quand je m'en sert, de pouvoir les démonter facilement...

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker Bien apprécié et merci beaucoup . Je trouve vraiment bien ce que vous faites. Il faut avoir du courage pour demontrer son travail. Je suis bien sur d'accord avec la critique reliée au "drawbore" pour les tenons du "frame" mais je comprends la "situation" . Bravo encore.

Not really, except the plan on these rafters. They are on my website in the plan section. thewoodpecker.net

The patern depend on the roof slope, here I made Caroline a 7-12 pitch, just like my shop, but you might want something else so it's hard to have a formula.

I assumed that there is some average value depending on the size of the material ... Anyway, thanks for the reply.

Probably but just for a couple of mortices this is not that critical.

Non j'ai pas de template mais sur mon site internet thewoodpecker.net vous pouvez trouver le plan de mon atelier avec les fermes et leur dimensions

Yes this would look great. If you go to my website, in the plans sections you'll find the sketchup file we've used to make this truss (thewoodpecker.net)

I only used it once whern I made my shop tu roughly cut tthe top of the rafters. The thing is without a brand new chain this always cuts at an angle, so I rather use other tools.

probably you must buy a new sharp chain and try it. Or you buy a rat-tail file and grind up the old chain. I am a carpenter in Germany and using my chainsaw very often. It works very well. By the way, i've seen all of your episodes up to here and I like it! The timber working in Canada is a little bit different to Europe and so it is very interesting for me to watch it how you are working. Greetings.

I might try, but I'm unsure.... I know it's a litlle bit diferent, before building my shop I read a lot of books from around here and some from europe and it was a bit different. When I built my cottage more than 20 years ago I was young and thought I knew everything, and obviously I made a lot of mistakes, I didn't want to repeat the same thing a second time, it's why I read a lot of books.

Well your shop and your cottage ar still standing up to now and they looks very well! I dont think you make big mistake. May be try and error and that do everyone. Differents are interesting, thats all. Another question: do you have or do you need a stress analyst who compute the construction? Here in Germany it must be for every building even a little tinny house in the garden. Now i'm watching ep 118....

Since it's not the main house I needed nothing just an hand drawed aproximative plans. Mostly the size, where it will be built in the yard and it's size. I made all my calculation with a book I bought on the subject and I rechecked them with the calculator on the forestry forum. Since everything was looking finbe on both calculation I went ahead. But still 20X25 cm beams can withhold a lot of weight.

Sketchup v8

Alain Vaillancourt thank you

If you mean, how the rafters are held in place; first with a peg and two 15" screws and also two additional 18" screws at their botom. Plus two 15" screws at the top. This is on my shop, I advise Caroline to do the same, beter safe than sorry.

Thanks for the reply.

Why not use metal dowels? I would think that wrought iron, or spring steel would be stronger than hand riven oak. I know hardwood dowels are traditional, but they use steel brackets to hold some post and beam structures together, and I would think that steel or some type of metal rod would be at least as strong as those metal brackets, or wooden dowels. I'm probably wrong on this, but I'm still curious about if it would work. Any knowledgeable feedback will be appreciated, as I'm going to attempt to build some post and beam structures soon.

Yes but I don't make timber frame trusses with that; I make mortices and tenons :))

Yes, I made a beginer mistake there and I only caught it when people said the same thing as you said.... Well, this won't be my last mistake...

Alain Vaillancourt Sorry I bet you're tired of reading that then. keep up the good work! you should do a spline tutorial

No problem, I don't mind. The thing that bugs me the most is the people who are complaining about my bad accent, like I don't know I have a bad accent, I would be happy to have a nice conversation in French whith them one day.... But I'm more mad at myself not catching this mistake before the video was publish than any other thing...

Alain Vaillancourt your accent makes you unique buddy don't listen to the haters haha.

Bubbles Correct..this guy is a glorified amateur that should learn some simple facts before teaching others and making videos that embarrass himself.

But not as attractive... It's why I my shop, I also used 18" screws on top of traditional mortises and tenons. I also said to Caroline to screw long screws

Envoie moi un courriel a lgosseuxdbois@gmail.com je pourrai peut-être répondre a quelques de tes questions

LOL I had it when I was a teenager. I love the fact that if I unplug it and re-plug it it starts right away so I control the on/off just by having a outlet remote control

Lol they always had like 20 D batteries!

Yes :)) who uses those bateries anymore :) But for a shop it's the perfect radio

exactly. you shouldn't have any weight on the tie beam. In fact the king post helps when assembling the truss 16' in the air and you have a 450lbs rafter to hold in place without any industrial crane...

bine sûr, je reviens tout juste me mon chalet envoie moi un courriel lgosseuxdbois a gmail.com

It will be overkill ,but she wanted the look of a timberframe structure. I can't argue with her, a timberframe structure is so pleasing to be in, or maybe it's just me...

Peter Compton that's because it's not fit for purpose..a total waste of decent timber.

Yes, I notice too late after posting the video that I messed up in the wording, and it's not because I didn't know..... Thank you

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker😊

Thank you for your videos

No, this was just to get the feeling of making trusses, it's only 4x4. It's why this is not strong enough for a real structure, but it was easier to move around. In my shop I uses 8x8 and 8x10 at 350Lbs each piece, it was a pain to move around especially when you're alone to make the joinery...

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker But surely 4×4 or 6×6 timberframed trusses are strong enough for a greenhouse??

Depends on how far apart they are. You see in my shop the trusses are 10' apart. 6x6 would not be enough. But if I would had put them 5' apart it would had been more than enough but the appeal of a timber frame structure is that you barely have ties beams over your head, otherwise I would had just use 2x6 and a flat ceiling. Everything depend on the look you want.

The crown tenon is meant to be loose, it's just there to be sure that when the 400lbs rafter is lay on the king post, it will not slip on the side. When I did the shop and I didn't have a hydrolic crane to lift the 400lbs rafters, I was unable to make a draw tight peg mortise, so instead I used 18"screws to pull all the rafters together. On this "mock up" truss, we didn't used screw but I told Caroline not to forget to put some before drilling for the pegs.

But not everyones listening comprehension might be. Also there are people that have no hearing.

You can turn them off if you don't want them on the screen. Put your mouse over the video and press the CC button in the lower right of the video.

Subtitles are necessary for people with motion blindness. They can't see moving images as well as static text.

That broken English french is far from perfect.... It is understandable albeit annoying...

Humm not the ketchup but for the rafters you can go to my website and I have the plans for this particular rafter

I have the plan on my website. If I remember correctly, it's the same pitch as my shop 7-12

We don't have termite around here :) If the wood stay dry the ants won't touch it. I guess termites don't like our -35° in winter....

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker Nice. Where live the temperatures are mild so just about every wood structure has dry wood termites. I was once was doing framing and they were swarming around us while we were working. They just couldn't even wait until we were done! We used pre-fab 2x4 truss construction but had ornamental 8x8 timbers poking out for show. I use to joke that the timbers were just sacrificial food for the termintes to keep them out of our real trusses! Great video by the way.

WOW since we don't have termite over here I had no idea they were as much of a nuisance... You know it's thing you see in movies and know that it must be exaggerated... Like people think we have 10' of snow here in winter and every day is -35°. As a mater of fact we only have about 3' of snow around Montreal, and this year it was just about 2' and no week at -35° it was pretty mild , sad for snowmobiling....

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker "Only 3 feet on snow". LOL. You have no idea how extreme that sounds to me. No idea about negative temperatures so I looked it up. Really interesting that -40 is the same temp in C or F. If you had your frig outside it would need to be heated.

Yes, at -40° both Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same. But Beside 32°F, I can't wrap my mind around the rest of the Fahrenheit temperature. Inches are OK though... You're right each year we take all the stuff inside our freezer put it in bins and leave them outside in the coldest weeks, so we can thaw the tons of ice inside our freezer. 25 years ago a repairman said that this freezer was good for the garbage, it still running like the day my parent bought it 40 years ago, but got all icy inside

I don't remember... But it must be a mistake I always wear my earmuff, As a mather of fact I have 6 pairs in the shop

Yes I messed up the words... I know... And I only noticed it when people started saying it....

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker So, I wasn't the first one. No matter. You were the first to show me how it's done. Thanks.

Oui pas mal.... C'est souvent comme ça qu'on se vend quand on parle Anglais

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker oh ok

You're right, I messed up in my explanation I only realized too late, when people pointed that I made a mistake.