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140 sats \ 5 replies \ @Scoresby 14h \ on: Repurposing old Japanese timber frames Photography
Timber framing is such an elegant way to build. There is a world where I would have joined a friend of mine who spent years doing timber framing in Vermont. Sadly, there's not a lot of demand: he's a roofer in North Carolina now, and I'm doing Bitcoin things in Texas.
That's interesting because we just built our home in western MA (not far from VT) and there was such a shortage of labor here that our GC couldn't do the framing. Instead, we had our design panelized by the incredible Bensonwood in New Hampshire. It's the future of building – every nail and square inch of wood pre-calculated by a company, resulting in zero waste. The walls panels with their windows pre-fitted came on trucks and were assembled by a crane in a few days. It was amazing. Demand seems very high in these parts, right now at least. But I suspect doing Bitcoin things in Texas might lead to a superior outcome.
-Tom
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Panelizing is really neat. I didn't know about Bensonwood.
My friend found that there was demand for framing, but not necessarily for timber framing -- and definitely not at a price point that made sense. But then he was feeling money pressure at the time because of a young family and maybe just needed to stick it out longer.
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the wood he milled himself
At one point I worked at a salvage yard. We specialized in taking apart old houses/barns/warehouses and salvaging the wood. They had a little mill for cutting up the bigger beams that we couldn't sell as beams. Milling is complicated, but cool. I think milling timber is probably even more complicated.
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Cool, I will have to watch this.
-Tom
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