tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48379221667905800982024-03-05T21:57:39.593-08:00Michael's Timber FramingMichaelstf101michaelstf101http://www.blogger.com/profile/00157055419261170638noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837922166790580098.post-19902491523343795362021-12-27T14:03:00.000-08:002021-12-27T14:07:47.167-08:00The Barn Story<p>Below are links to the first five chapters of "The Barn Story" - the third, and perhaps final structure, of my Timber Framing adventure. Hope you enjoyed the saga.</p><p>Michael<br /></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D7AIH4RjB5zq9fo6kEgbIw5XdxGiCVQs/view?usp=sharing">The Barn Story - Chapter 1</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BJOWOrhqxzqccZWZ72CYzm84ot9rrQcK/view?usp=sharing">The Barn Story - Chapter 2</a></p><p> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1siPu_nK4o3kjilKByBqV9ux8B6JcXWE8/view?usp=sharing">The Barn Story - Chapter 3</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yyHJpL0Z5_rJWz4w-9fA5XhVvHjsJ6r0/view?usp=sharing">The Barn Story - Chapter 4</a></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G1W6h7Gw6Ta60XWVaBrD_hc71TOC7fz1/view?usp=sharing">The Barn Story - Chapter 5</a> </p><p> </p><p> </p>michaelstf101http://www.blogger.com/profile/00157055419261170638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837922166790580098.post-10983732636582134592021-03-24T15:20:00.000-07:002021-03-24T15:20:06.645-07:00The Greenhouse Story<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>The Greenhouse Story</b></u></span></span> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnzEhYq-XufqMd53PcNfJch9zCDHu5lDyhWoZeOWn5iKPqdvrdNtUPLo6SAIKbNKMKbnPX65NmgrCdmywqoLO3jSww0zCir2iu7TRvxBcr_00g6sbgJqRHCQKZJEjrlZndLtPIpXZUwlP/s3264/002+-+Begin+Framing.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnzEhYq-XufqMd53PcNfJch9zCDHu5lDyhWoZeOWn5iKPqdvrdNtUPLo6SAIKbNKMKbnPX65NmgrCdmywqoLO3jSww0zCir2iu7TRvxBcr_00g6sbgJqRHCQKZJEjrlZndLtPIpXZUwlP/s320/002+-+Begin+Framing.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The greenhouse was originally conceived to be a garage with a door facing on the driveway side of the building. The idea was to use the timbers that were left over from the timber framed house construction project that was completed in 1998. When I ordered timbers for the 3-year long house project, I always added one or two extra timbers of each size to allow for the possibility that one might bow or twist. Indeed, that did happen in some cases, the worst being two 16-foot 6x8 purlins that bowed by about four inches before I could even use them. Ten years later, I decided to design a structure to make use of these leftovers, a garage, I thought.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the photo above, the original stick framed shed is in the background and a section of the house roof is visible behind it. The shed was built with nothing more than a handsaw and a hammer for tools. It served as my residence for the several years while I was building my timber framed house. The shed is sitting on flat rocks sitting on the ground. The house has a real concrete foundation and the garage was designed to sit on cinder-block pylons. These pylons are three blocks high, mostly because that was as deep as I could dig with a shovel when I hit bedrock.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRoWLvcoNFexbUcyHNP6iJyMvyP4k-MmM9EFKQjPWhd6YylG5z8rnT3_PerkUsuW1VXf53PY6kiUo722dIMj3kr4QlRfl98rlzaL7sPWDg-zCchynhyphenhyphen69kZVUWzZ1caFW_SpnHiJWWPBY0/s3264/004+-+First+Post+Raising.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRoWLvcoNFexbUcyHNP6iJyMvyP4k-MmM9EFKQjPWhd6YylG5z8rnT3_PerkUsuW1VXf53PY6kiUo722dIMj3kr4QlRfl98rlzaL7sPWDg-zCchynhyphenhyphen69kZVUWzZ1caFW_SpnHiJWWPBY0/s320/004+-+First+Post+Raising.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At this point, I had already designed the frame and had all the joinery cut and ready to assemble. The engine hoist that I used to build the house was still functional after sitting outside for the past ten years. On the left, the crane is lifting this first post. This post was originally a house beam and so it has all the original mortices as well as the new mortices. In the background is the test-assembled south bay frame and the crane is resting on the posts for the north bay. Once this post was raised and secured with guy-lines, the two eight-foot beams were lifted into place, their braces installed and strapped to hold them in place.</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_QP5e1VsGAe0LXc9rNg1VGuNe4ByT6j49aROY6s2p4m5yXVA0r71Cm3JMd_aXHlJ6TRrBv1tJssmLaNrXc3jON2RS3AgPXQUisT1Yld5_KOlMZeK3Qvt_nH3Xc6vHzrbphZh0abIzl12/s3264/007+-+Third+Post+Raising.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_QP5e1VsGAe0LXc9rNg1VGuNe4ByT6j49aROY6s2p4m5yXVA0r71Cm3JMd_aXHlJ6TRrBv1tJssmLaNrXc3jON2RS3AgPXQUisT1Yld5_KOlMZeK3Qvt_nH3Xc6vHzrbphZh0abIzl12/s320/007+-+Third+Post+Raising.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the right, the southeast corner post is being lifted into place with a come-along. Once the post was nearly vertical, the two braces could be loosely installed. Notice that the tall center post has two brace mortices at the top and the bottom since this post was originally cut to be a house beam. The top mortice is being re-purposed as a ridge pole brace mortice. Just below the beam being installed is a girt dovetail mortice that was in the center of the original beam. I cut some blocks to fill this mortice and glued them in place. The photo below shows the assembled structure, what I called Bent 3, tightly strapped together ready to be pegged.</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNOvrZKsUsjgUSEarhqTgsFj6KWIihtsfOvYEBfs91cyPXDwCFcKrmWfsrKrlFcPuKcL__5XX6JKn_yHakr1AikF93xebdSBgxiK9bHgfODgHuR4mFUcZPQPbgk1x_VtxLJbTDh8-ic46R/s3264/009+-+Bent+I+Done.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNOvrZKsUsjgUSEarhqTgsFj6KWIihtsfOvYEBfs91cyPXDwCFcKrmWfsrKrlFcPuKcL__5XX6JKn_yHakr1AikF93xebdSBgxiK9bHgfODgHuR4mFUcZPQPbgk1x_VtxLJbTDh8-ic46R/w400-h300/009+-+Bent+I+Done.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the third bent raised and guy wired in place, the crane needed to be moved from its east-west orientation to a north-south orientation. This crane is very heavy so this re-orientation process is a bit tedious. Strapping the legs to the boards allows the boards to be slowly rotated, supported by blocks in the process. It also has a maximum height of eight feet. Since the corner posts are ten feet tall and the bay girts sit atop the posts, the crane must be elevated and the strap slack taken up with a small block.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs_5Uoc-fwpTQ8K3cvcZepACq24f-r4g5_wX_3bH4KjzMlHJnS68eoDC0b5wT3JAhDN2b5QZEvHJJEKJqVZSBHkTURa-P1q18vBUMbuRduRtgcoAiQJjKH3MPhgyx4Hhfc8JolhQ3AMk-g/s2048/011+-+Bay+2+S+Beam.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs_5Uoc-fwpTQ8K3cvcZepACq24f-r4g5_wX_3bH4KjzMlHJnS68eoDC0b5wT3JAhDN2b5QZEvHJJEKJqVZSBHkTURa-P1q18vBUMbuRduRtgcoAiQJjKH3MPhgyx4Hhfc8JolhQ3AMk-g/s320/011+-+Bay+2+S+Beam.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the photo to the right, the north bay girt </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ha</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s be</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">en</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> installed on top of its two posts with its two braces in place. The crane has lifted the south bay girt in place with one brace installed. The missing post is leaning on blocks. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Th</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">is</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> post w</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">as</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> pulled up into place with a come-along attached to the other post. That other post was raised with the crane and guy wired before the girt was lifted to the tops of the posts. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Both of these post raising methods work. The north post raising method requires moving the crane twice. The south post raising requires a lot of come-along cranking and post bottom bracing. In either case, the braces must be installed as the girt is lowered into place.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcr-ngrt85_OtXz4C_5TN_JYFY2XWr705cuHw6vSA2Zr61IkAACphRBqYswB8MbPRyP9-HNY5aU4y9toEfO3DQHySeQe1j51OWMP4Gq2BDoQUlxQDw-bNtTGcAAYtqESCNR9sTodl07Ah/s2048/013+-+Bent+2+Girt+Raising.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcr-ngrt85_OtXz4C_5TN_JYFY2XWr705cuHw6vSA2Zr61IkAACphRBqYswB8MbPRyP9-HNY5aU4y9toEfO3DQHySeQe1j51OWMP4Gq2BDoQUlxQDw-bNtTGcAAYtqESCNR9sTodl07Ah/s320/013+-+Bent+2+Girt+Raising.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Next, </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">once again,</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the crane and its support system needs to be moved. It actually takes longer to get the crane repositioned than it does to raise the timber! On the left, the bowed 16</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">foot 6x8 is being raised into position. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The term “bowed” means that the wide side of the timber is arched and the narrow side is straight. A “crowned” timber means that the narrow side of the timber is arched and the wide side is straight. A timber that is both crowned and bowed is very difficult to join to other timbers and best cut up into smaller pieces. Likewise, a twisted timber leads to difficult joinery that is best avoided.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BxSG5bOS-1abTnLao9E0DsaEdj1cyQmy2vK925k8hSRKKrSzTwmpUM_J59BznMIMRlvtOcKYmPk3_Uvvw7oGzoCbJV6-GFQIskcaURKuWc440gZOi8FoLVRsvz945Kvj8qFl_Fp2-paH/s3264/015+-+Bent+1+S+Post.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BxSG5bOS-1abTnLao9E0DsaEdj1cyQmy2vK925k8hSRKKrSzTwmpUM_J59BznMIMRlvtOcKYmPk3_Uvvw7oGzoCbJV6-GFQIskcaURKuWc440gZOi8FoLVRsvz945Kvj8qFl_Fp2-paH/s320/015+-+Bent+1+S+Post.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">O</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">n the right, the north (left) post and girt have been raised and the south post is in the process of being pivoted into position by a come-along. The crane is positioned to raise the girt once the post has been guy wired in place. In the center of the photo, the extent of the bowing of the center beam is obvious. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With a 90 degree connection, the </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">brace ends have are 45 degree angles and the </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">length of the brace can be calculated. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bec</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">use of th</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">e</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> bow, the brace top</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> that meet the bottom of the beam </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">were</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> custom cut </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">on the ground </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to match the angle of the bottom of the beam </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> extra length to reach a bit higher than what is needed for a </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">45 degree </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">angle connection.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinzEqrXKzVQAd8LVNdRQHHIgta0ieck25BpJMocUq7xJ9-Ixvv43Nz0xh2HAbhQxhztbgBll9cDNiPTW9kxKFi3P34W6dDfLtYDD5QFQKCV0qMePLSAy0IZ-AsqXnHzBn2Q_yqMe2sU_Y-/s3264/016+-+Bay+1+S+Beam+Raising.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinzEqrXKzVQAd8LVNdRQHHIgta0ieck25BpJMocUq7xJ9-Ixvv43Nz0xh2HAbhQxhztbgBll9cDNiPTW9kxKFi3P34W6dDfLtYDD5QFQKCV0qMePLSAy0IZ-AsqXnHzBn2Q_yqMe2sU_Y-/s320/016+-+Bay+1+S+Beam+Raising.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">right</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">, the south beam is being raised. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The crane is on 10-inch blocks on top of the sill plate and a block is strapped underneath the beam to reduce the slack in the two-foot strap. Both of these measures are necessary to raise the beam to the top of the ten-foot posts.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqrC41S7vUTiwolBTIkhbFC3M8xhfBO1-0a8oHUkbL-tv90VY-fgEWk1xPi3bFrCAwd0w89PJR07pRv1SDOKKPnQzDVSgVdx1KD94mvtPiXyeOfMpIflbJ2o5LIssaIuZ9am6JRCPdLag/s3264/017+-+Bay+1+S+Beam.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqrC41S7vUTiwolBTIkhbFC3M8xhfBO1-0a8oHUkbL-tv90VY-fgEWk1xPi3bFrCAwd0w89PJR07pRv1SDOKKPnQzDVSgVdx1KD94mvtPiXyeOfMpIflbJ2o5LIssaIuZ9am6JRCPdLag/s320/017+-+Bay+1+S+Beam.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he first photo of the construction site </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">is</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> from </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">September 9, 2008. The photo at the left is from a month later. There were actually only four days of raising activity during that month shown in these photos. <br /></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">he greenhouse project actually began</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">after the house was dried-in.</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> W</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">e had moved from the basement to the upstairs of our new timber frame house in May of 2004</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. A </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">garage </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">site plan was drawn in September of 2005 and a several potential framing drawings created that winter. By January of 2006, a plan that accounted for the available timbers and their characteristics was completed. It was not until September of 2007 </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that the foundation pylons were installed.</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">greenhouse </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">project lost its priority when in April of 2006 we decided to build a new laundromat in Trinidad. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After purchasing a lot in town, dealing with the First National Bank in Trinidad and the City of Trinidad to approve the project, construction of the Linda’s Laundry began in June of that year. By the end of the year, the laundromat was finished and opened for business in January of 2007.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGcVRSk-7oIzWZDyWHEL_9mk7UXOt11it5l90nxB9Rbdbs4RIx9sxj7TNY5msf5HtC5mSSkME2pSO8UDkGp5IUQY61VwEvViMgIablpNgT-5rPLDGFZZuWvVXyFb77A42XZeyZS9yjw2UL/s1169/Trusses+-+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGcVRSk-7oIzWZDyWHEL_9mk7UXOt11it5l90nxB9Rbdbs4RIx9sxj7TNY5msf5HtC5mSSkME2pSO8UDkGp5IUQY61VwEvViMgIablpNgT-5rPLDGFZZuWvVXyFb77A42XZeyZS9yjw2UL/s320/Trusses+-+9.jpg" width="320" /></a></span>My initial proposal was to build a 50-foot by 50-foot timber framed structure. This idea was quickly dismissed by both the bank and the city due to both entities requiring that the construction process take no more than 9 months. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since the house frame took three years, there were no local construction companies that could help or had any timber framing knowledge and the city building code did not even address the notion of a timber framed structure, the laundromat was designed as a standard stick-framed building on a concrete slab.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgo0GcpNcoxbQ1k8frnr9UvAei2ch0g2Sx0B81rgk6o6qO1ichySk9tAiFQBWtfMyIfNMiAgJVIH2ri6Ch23co7FmC3cPG2NZZHNQ9rGkIBpHUa2RRThTv1Tcuw0R8nX1zDAXnw7271GGM/s2048/P8250566.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgo0GcpNcoxbQ1k8frnr9UvAei2ch0g2Sx0B81rgk6o6qO1ichySk9tAiFQBWtfMyIfNMiAgJVIH2ri6Ch23co7FmC3cPG2NZZHNQ9rGkIBpHUa2RRThTv1Tcuw0R8nX1zDAXnw7271GGM/s320/P8250566.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><p></p>Ho Hum.<br /><p style="text-align: justify;">In 2005, I had a vision of a 50 foot square, four bayed timber framed structure using 5 huge hammer beams. Alas, the town got "Linda's Laundry", but it did not get a magnificent timber framed structure.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Linda and I ran this business until selling it in 2020, which is why it took seven years to build the greenhouse at home in my spare time.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">took several years to establish this </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">laundromat </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">business so my timber framed greenhouse using leftover house timbers became just an idea. </span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By the summer of 2008, the business was operatin</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">g</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> fine and I finally had a few days a week to pursue my timber framing hobby.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdU5o82Rc4IpmzcrLwIx2sonSAx3-4fHwtS1-BUK5wInXF24a-1uTVAluKWYuASzEc5eV_dUH20nao-uqKdHqxeFvULBh-qa3acgr6mRv8w1bB3yMQvpZw9zLBtXFmFRT67NZlp5IV87MO/s3264/018+-+Bent+1Girt+Raising.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdU5o82Rc4IpmzcrLwIx2sonSAx3-4fHwtS1-BUK5wInXF24a-1uTVAluKWYuASzEc5eV_dUH20nao-uqKdHqxeFvULBh-qa3acgr6mRv8w1bB3yMQvpZw9zLBtXFmFRT67NZlp5IV87MO/s320/018+-+Bent+1Girt+Raising.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">O</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">n September 11, 2008, the last beam was installed. This was the “crowned” 16-foot beam, the opposite of the “bowed” 16-foot beam in the center of the frame. Again, the braces for this beam had to be custom designed to conform to its curve. Since this beam was originally cut back in 1996, it was well dried and unlikely to continue changing shape.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next phase of the plan included three king posts and two ridge poles. All three king posts had to be carefully measured since the three beams upon which they stood were at different heights. Once the two ridge poles were installed at the top of the king posts, it was important that they be straight and level!</span></span></p><pre style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was not until August 20, 2009, that I finally raised the king posts and ridge poles.</span></span></pre><pre style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj22uBHcN2wc66583X6B_xrijYrqRtc9viaZusVGsnmJJW4xzLZYvWit3f5QxrESpWrnUVBesJlgRfgjUkFq9D05Nhpe0Dce43oBww-3BKFASU1A9PUSD4FWNLXpLUVTxWJIP_t3n8NCGvd/s3264/021+-+King+Posts+%2526+Ridge.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj22uBHcN2wc66583X6B_xrijYrqRtc9viaZusVGsnmJJW4xzLZYvWit3f5QxrESpWrnUVBesJlgRfgjUkFq9D05Nhpe0Dce43oBww-3BKFASU1A9PUSD4FWNLXpLUVTxWJIP_t3n8NCGvd/w400-h300/021+-+King+Posts+%2526+Ridge.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></span></pre><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now my structure needed some rafters. I obtained a collection of pine rough-cut 2x6’s from an abandoned cabin project since I had used all of my oak boards.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LPGCyqb_9Xluy4QxoVXO1Sbd38hwAuYBeIimVO2zM-LMSQObuHgnngALYE6V-yVDmJ5u1kTfjCPTQIvI_wUS-TSwQP6lg_W7KViCL2sVI5SN56Q-tlKPoNfLar5-8jlncHBz3QOUjZD8/s2048/023+-+Rafter+Tops.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LPGCyqb_9Xluy4QxoVXO1Sbd38hwAuYBeIimVO2zM-LMSQObuHgnngALYE6V-yVDmJ5u1kTfjCPTQIvI_wUS-TSwQP6lg_W7KViCL2sVI5SN56Q-tlKPoNfLar5-8jlncHBz3QOUjZD8/w320-h240/023+-+Rafter+Tops.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
planed them, added a board to the ridge pole to support the top of the
rafters and another board on the outside walls to support the rafter
tails.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisYGehpTh1ZOVI9NdXdMUh4lirlRAW8cu5EyQIVS2ziM9OD7AMd9ozwbp-aJ2G2P8bEOowP2O1yZF6ny5Hu0ryX9SNVFyPzT0spWAVLbpwu9VdHql1OTS_psI7TsE1n9FnlqvJoscckyp7/s2048/024+-+Rafter+Bottoms.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisYGehpTh1ZOVI9NdXdMUh4lirlRAW8cu5EyQIVS2ziM9OD7AMd9ozwbp-aJ2G2P8bEOowP2O1yZF6ny5Hu0ryX9SNVFyPzT0spWAVLbpwu9VdHql1OTS_psI7TsE1n9FnlqvJoscckyp7/w320-h240/024+-+Rafter+Bottoms.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">By May of 2010, I was ready to make a roof. Three-quarter inch
thick plywood was applied for the roof sheathing. Left-over red metal
roofing from the laundromat project finished the roof.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbkDNcIR1kR7SxOBMhBtqD6ZJCt9bqI41MjoDn6sdBl9-GlZQTMcaqNKLbCD97dLur6ECiTkCERZe6BmtVvSTOcoMT5vB1nMuAFV_kOvmTSAjIe1FsjjU0-cxkCI5eXDDeW081dnT0xoT/s2048/025+-+Gable+Rafters.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbkDNcIR1kR7SxOBMhBtqD6ZJCt9bqI41MjoDn6sdBl9-GlZQTMcaqNKLbCD97dLur6ECiTkCERZe6BmtVvSTOcoMT5vB1nMuAFV_kOvmTSAjIe1FsjjU0-cxkCI5eXDDeW081dnT0xoT/w400-h300/025+-+Gable+Rafters.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The above photo was taken on June, 11, 2010, almost 3 years after the foundation pylons were installed. The plan was to build framing between the posts, install framing for a door and lots of windows on the south and west sides and more windows on the south facing roof. This was still a low-budget project so I planned to use more left-over materials. I had a chestnut exterior door that had been looking for a place to be for the last ten years. There was enough left-over red metal roofing from the laundromat project to cover most of the roof if I omitted about 64 square feet for roof windows. A friend provided a used sliding glass door and Linda found an assortment of double-paned glass windows that were going to the dump. So, I designed an exterior plan to incorporate these materials.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNfcyNfxA_vgMhyb0IcHqyo0XhaYaQ3KB6dorRiOfYIvkZqsC6Dhi8FsctseeDbrt0LtathuAl0KYTqBx2RqKsTU-NmU1yx_acYTHJ3kBbxR1_IyZ05x4yuWaLPtI0D9q5RLShHgnMJdAs/s3264/032+-+N+Metal+Roofing.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNfcyNfxA_vgMhyb0IcHqyo0XhaYaQ3KB6dorRiOfYIvkZqsC6Dhi8FsctseeDbrt0LtathuAl0KYTqBx2RqKsTU-NmU1yx_acYTHJ3kBbxR1_IyZ05x4yuWaLPtI0D9q5RLShHgnMJdAs/s320/032+-+N+Metal+Roofing.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Starting with the roof, I had to buy three-quarter inch OSB sheeting which was nailed to the rafters. The north and south roof were covered with metal roofing except for the 4-foot by 16-foot opening for roof windows. Once the roofing was installed and the roof window opening edges framed, I bought 2 four by eight pieces of plexiglass to fill in the opening and silicone caulked the edges. This turned out to be a mistake, but it did solve the roof window problem for the next eight years. On the right is a photo of the north roofing being installed.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEHGFkcpnYfLvXNrCruQJVigPMiDP6hs9dwYY-aDT7EngTCnlzhr3UMNh7G-9GKxOBlcZns8IvbHgPIAzTRVfz8UQ98B9ORDYwDBwNAfrwBW-ukTOMGNwlw16hCWlS5phbQsBjjJez6h6K/s3264/037+-+S+Metal+Roofing.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEHGFkcpnYfLvXNrCruQJVigPMiDP6hs9dwYY-aDT7EngTCnlzhr3UMNh7G-9GKxOBlcZns8IvbHgPIAzTRVfz8UQ98B9ORDYwDBwNAfrwBW-ukTOMGNwlw16hCWlS5phbQsBjjJez6h6K/s320/037+-+S+Metal+Roofing.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the left is a photo of the south roofing installation. A framework slightly larger than the size of two pieces of plexiglass was nailed on top of the rafters and the roofing flashed to prevent leakage. Then the plexiglass was installed on top of the framework and the edges sealed with silicone caulk. Finally, I screwed boards to the edges and the rafters to hold the plexiglass in place. I considered this to be a temporary solution until I could replace the plexiglass sheets with glass windows. What I failed to account for was the tremendous water condensation that would eventually develop inside.</span></span></span></span><p></p><p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The greenhouse remained a pavilion for the next several months which at least demonstrated that the roof did not leak and where the sunshine would enter the building in the winter. That summer, many wheelbarrow loads of topsoil were transferred from a nearby hill to the inside of the pavilion providing another foot of dirt for the gardener.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUntTDfevEX7p6KLizSzm76xcom6oRP_0PN0s2POXaXc149sWtwYgCJTN5Y3t-6GT1rO9vBym8S6Tausjsski0opUkO8NFxRcmgTSj1xWU36-enMjLV3JkfBuz8UMFDyDiE9CLeUat8fXk/s2048/P8120376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUntTDfevEX7p6KLizSzm76xcom6oRP_0PN0s2POXaXc149sWtwYgCJTN5Y3t-6GT1rO9vBym8S6Tausjsski0opUkO8NFxRcmgTSj1xWU36-enMjLV3JkfBuz8UMFDyDiE9CLeUat8fXk/s320/P8120376.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In August of 2011, I started 2x4 framing of the walls, starting with the easiest north wall. In the photo to the right, because the walls were 10 feet tall, 8-foot 2x4s were built upon a two foot wall nailed to the sill plate. This left gaps under the sill plate between the pylons that were back-filled with rocks. This too turned out to be a problem. Were this building merely a garage, that would have been fine, especially since the original plan included the pouring of a cement floor inside and under the sill plates. However, garden dirt was used to fill the inside floor area instead. Eventually, digging critters found easy access under the wall.<br /></span></span>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I also made gutters out of my spare roofing materials. The idea was to collect water from the roof and route the center of the gutter to the inside of the greenhouse. The small box framed into the upper side of the wall was designed to house the gutter entrance. The horse trough, originally outside under the gutter center, demonstrated that this idea would work and the trough was eventually installed on the other side of the wall inside the greenhouse. In the gable ends, two boxes were also framed to create vents. After framing for my chestnut door, the north and east walls were sheathed with T1-11 and the door installed.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbeuimvU9IuPyjY-luuyj_Wf5Rx36D8KfV9jKu9pOUxHTS62gOdnWTLFEpOxARUrtYMPpJRPPrpbkeJKDhvyc9rconcHmr_AsI-Tk0JB1TEwP_5zz90qtOuzYJ0EjUjVGAloi5cB3dN1SA/s2048/P9100456.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbeuimvU9IuPyjY-luuyj_Wf5Rx36D8KfV9jKu9pOUxHTS62gOdnWTLFEpOxARUrtYMPpJRPPrpbkeJKDhvyc9rconcHmr_AsI-Tk0JB1TEwP_5zz90qtOuzYJ0EjUjVGAloi5cB3dN1SA/s320/P9100456.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What I did account for was the need for ventilation. The two framed openings in the gables provide about four square feet of upper air escape. Near the bottom of the south wall I installed three similar framed openings for lower air intake. I made louvered coverings for the outsides and hinged insulated doors on the inside to control the airflow.</span></span><p></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Next was to design walls for the south and west sides that fit within the framing and housed the window collection. The sliding glass door was centered on the west wall with matching windows of either side. The south wall utilized the odd collection of window sizes.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0hhku59QrBtsKxsKK5iRxFx4SOGB-jb6nlFjZb_9IPjym5mp6aJSdZXlM9GKZv1h7IbuIhSp8CGVvbb808BnS1lYRyB15NEoxeBETL722vZe0ud1T4fqma5KqCKOoYH09Sd5yUZg56T1G/s3264/P9100473.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0hhku59QrBtsKxsKK5iRxFx4SOGB-jb6nlFjZb_9IPjym5mp6aJSdZXlM9GKZv1h7IbuIhSp8CGVvbb808BnS1lYRyB15NEoxeBETL722vZe0ud1T4fqma5KqCKOoYH09Sd5yUZg56T1G/s320/P9100473.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It's Dawn – September 10, 2011. I have about one month to get this covered before the first snows.</span></span></p>
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There happens to be forest and a hill on that side though.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Looking right towards the southwest, the horizon is open and lots of sunshine will flood the south wall all day.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The west facing wall on the far right will be in sunshine until late afternoon - there's trees over there too!<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUzpOUAljByCZbPampFjIFuowg0J6vVEbi3xHv5NSZHKe1Xdc99eWMBQgAi3y5Qtbv__-S1Exoju2zqzGI-p7Pv5HLRbEQzn9JHaBj3nk8Ts54u9NbT7_4UPZKmo5EbVLH4QBs67ImNRo/s2048/P9100457.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUzpOUAljByCZbPampFjIFuowg0J6vVEbi3xHv5NSZHKe1Xdc99eWMBQgAi3y5Qtbv__-S1Exoju2zqzGI-p7Pv5HLRbEQzn9JHaBj3nk8Ts54u9NbT7_4UPZKmo5EbVLH4QBs67ImNRo/s320/P9100457.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the right is the view from the southeast. Five years from now there will be a fenced in garden on this side enclosing an outdoor growing area the same size as the greenhouse.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the moment I have a month or so to cover the south wall and install 14 windows. I'll fill in the 7 vent openings for now and make the vent louvers and inside doors over the winter.<br /> </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja9yWKvD4ntoPGS2ut_5PjpXudQJqGtLb7cb_c38NSKTLdMbK0eVoMmyK_32C-4MNT5Gnz97UY0aTpDrGD00GtB9Re2vcYD3jA2MGo1ouQkLAz6d0l0TYfhbCuKjxF1ZPJnWr4vHn-4VEx/s1024/Greenhouse+progress+9-10-11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja9yWKvD4ntoPGS2ut_5PjpXudQJqGtLb7cb_c38NSKTLdMbK0eVoMmyK_32C-4MNT5Gnz97UY0aTpDrGD00GtB9Re2vcYD3jA2MGo1ouQkLAz6d0l0TYfhbCuKjxF1ZPJnWr4vHn-4VEx/s320/Greenhouse+progress+9-10-11.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is also a sliding glass door and two more windows to install in the west wall. Five years from now, that sliding glass door will no longer slide. Dirt in the bottom track quickly destroyed the tiny plastic rollers. Now, it's a big window.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMj46d98aD4OvT5AtJCjmXLcCquZPk9SjGWVoabw9tcbanx-LXx4mZtCTUfWdDNJGV_zg2PYSOMyLEqQMe8ld4PKlr-etEu6_yCeVxBzdAJlaQFW9olB8KcOtZI4Fpti6zA6MpyGiKAI5/s2048/PA060526.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMj46d98aD4OvT5AtJCjmXLcCquZPk9SjGWVoabw9tcbanx-LXx4mZtCTUfWdDNJGV_zg2PYSOMyLEqQMe8ld4PKlr-etEu6_yCeVxBzdAJlaQFW9olB8KcOtZI4Fpti6zA6MpyGiKAI5/w400-h300/PA060526.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">October 6, 2011 – a few weeks before the traditional Halloween snowstorm.</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG5IW0PNXi_kECmqKSJYJHZIBVAi42oOFM0is-FNtm0WXXuBF1s5r0__rLaDMyUD3n5iHKPqUnWFEnMtPwUglhx8csdxFQSxefsa5ztvfGX5p_tcuYV6-4m0sqOAtjoZr3t6jvbXDasUgg/s2048/P5041085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG5IW0PNXi_kECmqKSJYJHZIBVAi42oOFM0is-FNtm0WXXuBF1s5r0__rLaDMyUD3n5iHKPqUnWFEnMtPwUglhx8csdxFQSxefsa5ztvfGX5p_tcuYV6-4m0sqOAtjoZr3t6jvbXDasUgg/s320/P5041085.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the building dried-in, I could now spend the winter finishing the inside, hopefully, in time for the gardeners spring planting plans! The cavities between the 2x4 walls were insulated with fiberglass bats and the seams taped. Then I used locally available aspen tongue and groove boards to cover the inside walls.</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Once
the vent louvers and inside hinged door flaps were installed, Linda
declared it done and it was planting time – this was in February - cold
outside but warm inside!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6gRg9gKRa1SCzHE8_f6s7w2k61NTdYG2lp1Y-AzPgE4oPfI7dCdn2RatK4GDMGJkvtnloNaq9XJ7ErJzwF0g_ylLPZPBNQ2pd6s53A_eXLlZnc8yAxhxqjulNSx4JIPJ_Zof4hBCwRhxT/s3264/P5101102.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6gRg9gKRa1SCzHE8_f6s7w2k61NTdYG2lp1Y-AzPgE4oPfI7dCdn2RatK4GDMGJkvtnloNaq9XJ7ErJzwF0g_ylLPZPBNQ2pd6s53A_eXLlZnc8yAxhxqjulNSx4JIPJ_Zof4hBCwRhxT/s320/P5101102.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The photo on the left was taken in May of 2012. An iris oversees the progress of the vegetables.<br /><br /></span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is my favorite greenhouse picture of Linda – the Happy Gardener.</span></span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">There are numerous potential types of joints that may be used in a timber framing project. They vary in complexity, size, strength and utility for a specific purpose. I used the types of joints that Ed used and taught me how to make.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Each of these joints also may be housed or flush. A housed joint may be stronger because more of the timber end is encased within its accompanying mortise. This additional timber end wood also more gradually reduces the size of the end of the timber which provides more support of the tenon in its mortise and reduces the likelihood of the timber cracking at the abrupt change in dimensions of a tenon that that does not have a housing. I used housed joinery for the beams and girts and flush joinery for the braces and joists. When the wood eventually shrinks and a space between the two joined timbers appears, what can be seen in that space of a housed joint is the housing but not the joint. When the space appears without a housing, the tenon is visible.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The entire frame employs 4 different types of joints, a mortise and tenon, a dovetail, a scarf, or a spline. Each of these joints are designed for the particular timbers that are to be joined. The large mortise and tenon joints are housed while the smaller ones are not. When the timbers meet perpendicularly, the mortises and tenons are simple rectangles. All the braces are joined at a 45 degree angle so the mortises and tenons are also cut at a 45 degree angle. The rafter bases sit on the top of posts so the rafter bases are cut at the angle of the roof. This is done with a joint called a birds beak.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">“Timbers and Joinery” is a spreadsheet listing of all the 379 timbers (“Timber List") that are in the frame. Each timber has at least a mortise or tenon at each end (like joists and purlins) and several timbers have many joinery sites. 20 of the timbers have 10 or more joint sites and two girts have16 joint sites. There are a total of 648 mortises and 648 tenons in the frame. Dovetail mortises and tenons account for 270 of these joints. Brace mortises and tenons account for another 168 of these joints (84 braces). The 66 spline joints are counted as 3 tenons, one for the spline itself and two for the mortises to which they attach, so there are a total of 22 splines. There are 12 scarf mortise and tenon joints with a mortise and tenon for each half of the joint, so there are 6 scarf joints. The other infrequently used type joint are the 16 rafter birds beaks. The other 124 mortises and tenons are beam and girt end joints. In all, there are 1,296 individual joints to be cut.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">All of the deck joinery follows traditional techniques. The </span><span style="font-size: small;">deck corners are tongue and fork joints</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> with a large center peg that extends up into the base of the corner posts. The 40 foot long sill beams are two 20 foot long timbers joined with a </span><span style="font-size: small;">three feet long scarf joint</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> with a center mortise for the perpendicular beam that locks the lap joint lengthwise. The beam tenon is pegged through the scarf joint, again, with a large center peg that extends up into the base of the post that rests on the intersection.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">These are photos of one off the sill beams under construction. On the left on the sawhorses is the center scarf joint. The end of the beam below it is a tongue and fork joint. The photo below is of the other ends of these beams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The photo to the left shows the process of cutting three of the six dovetail mortises that are in one of these sill timbers along with the tools employed. On the far right next to the drill, the mortise sides and back have been cut with a circular saw. Three holes were drilled to remove much of the wood. With the mallet and chisel in the center, the excess wood has been removed. On the left, the mortise has been fine tuned for the correct depth and straight back and sides of the mortise.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> In the photo below, these two timbers are joined end to end on top of the concrete foundation wall. The engine crane is placing one half of the connecting beam that will span to the opposite side of the foundation and connect to a similar set of sill beams. The photo above is a close-up of the mortise for the beam tenon that the crane is holding. I chiseled my initials and "1-1-96" when I made this mortise - Happy New Years day! The lower date, "6-18-96", is the date that this joint was put together.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The previous photos are of the assembly of the east center set of basement spanning beams. Above is the joining of the west center set of basement spanning beams. The post is free-standing (it has a copper plate underneath it to protect the wood from the concrete floor) and when the right hand beam tenon slides into its mortise, the connecting beams will rest on top of the post while the two scarf joints also fit together.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The photo on the left is of the last of the eight sill beams being raised. The scarf joint hanging in mid-air will connect to its mating scarf joint in the upper left of the photo. Meanwhile, the mortise at the far end of the beam will fit with its matching tenon on top of the concrete wall. Out of the photo on the left side is a post which supports this beam - the brace from this post is visible. </span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">All of the beams have housings that are one inch less than the beam size on the bottom and each side. All of the tenons are one and a half inches by four inches including the three quarter inch deep housing. Thus, the tenon is three and one quarter inches long and the peg center is placed one and a half inches from the outside of the beam. When I created mortises, I made sure that they were at least one-quarter inch deeper than the four-inch tenon. This puts the one inch peg edge one quarter inch inside of the housing and two and three quarter inches (the relish) from the end of the tenon. This housing, mortise and tenon design is based upon my assumptions of potential wood shrinkage over time. I assumed that the length of a beam would shrink at most about an eighth of an inch, or about one sixteenth at each end. I also assumed that the width of a post would shrink at most about a quarter of an inch on each side. Therefore the eventual shrinkage at a post to beam joint would be about five sixteenths of an inch. Thus, the three quarter inch housing, after the post and beam shrank would still be at least half engaged. As I inspect these joints that are now between five and seven years old, the average gap between the post and beam is about one quarter of an inch so one half inch of housing is still engaged. </span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> There are a number of different post connection problems in my frame design. The simplest joint is when</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">two beams meet a post at an outside corner</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">. I used 8x10 beams in the bent and 6x10 girts for the outside of the bays. This smaller bay girt allows space for the 2 inches needed for the bent beam peg, a one-inch peg centered one and a half inches from the post edge. The bay girt peg has to be drilled and installed from the outside of the post since the peg ends at the housing of the bent beam end. Care must be taken to avoid pounding this peg in so far that it might push the bent beam joint apart. To allow for future shrinkage, I made sure that the peg end would be at least one quarter inch from the bent beam housing.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> In the case where</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> three beams meet at a post</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">, I resorted to using a single spline for the bent beams and pegged the bay girt. The trick here is to install the bay girt before both of the bent beams are attached to the spline. Otherwise, the two bent beam-ends cover the peg site for the bay girt since the peg for the bay girt tenon is inside of the bent beam housing. This bay girt peg can not be driven so far that it contacts the inside of the opposite housing. I made sure that the peg end remained one quarter inch behind the back of the beam housing and was driven one quarter inch deeper than the back of the other beam housing. If the post is eight inches wide, the bent beam housings are both three quarter inches deep, and the peg ends are one quarter inch inside the back of the bent beam housings, then the bay girt peg has to be six inches long.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> The joining of the bent beams and bay girts at the central box corners involved the intersection of </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">four beams all at one point</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">. At these four points, two splines were needed. The bent beam splines run through the posts to support the beams from underneath. The bay girt splines run the opposite direction, divide the top of the posts and are set in long mortises along the top of the girts.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0eNJ9h_9uktUqNErjB8s7KdcYS_9fUGOL44mh5jriCcHxesiTLNFAtmyE2mR6wrKl9jW_FCFV7fkCtaEu6sWxXcNRlLplTohgjVJalzbQFRwFW20hxLLtPUBp9kwihWprvvXnv97GJSfK/s1600/P7120272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0eNJ9h_9uktUqNErjB8s7KdcYS_9fUGOL44mh5jriCcHxesiTLNFAtmyE2mR6wrKl9jW_FCFV7fkCtaEu6sWxXcNRlLplTohgjVJalzbQFRwFW20hxLLtPUBp9kwihWprvvXnv97GJSfK/s320/P7120272.JPG" width="240" /></a><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">roof framing</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">, like the deck, also follows traditional joinery techniques. Since I felt no need to create an attic and wanted the cathedral ceiling look, the beams and girts did not have to meet at the same point on the posts to create the ability to install a flat floor. The ten-foot tall queen posts (photo below) left plenty of space for the bent beam to be at the eight-foot height of the first floor beams. The bay girts are joined to the posts below the bent beam in the more traditional fashion. The lower rafter runs from the top of the first floor post to the top of the queen post.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The upper rafter continues from the top of the queen post to the top of the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">king post (photo above)</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">. The king posts are 8x10s that narrow to 8x8s at their bases. This provides plenty of joinery space for the two rafter tenons that are joined on each side of the king post, as well as the ridge beam tenon that is joined to the opposite face of the king post. Connecting the rafters are dovetailed purlins on four-foot centers. The entire frame did actually get finished in November of 1998. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZAstijC_MIbwX_b8QfKPhPcF_sl-UzWs3eRlipF-yzw_Bl0tnWfA1o1jFjP6_oOZ6EAfkx7a4lTw0V_pyDLjikkFQcFdw71sfL1cndo4s7pfG-47nL_mtiMRxfHjH4S4tRADUJmrSAT6H/s1600/P7120283.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZAstijC_MIbwX_b8QfKPhPcF_sl-UzWs3eRlipF-yzw_Bl0tnWfA1o1jFjP6_oOZ6EAfkx7a4lTw0V_pyDLjikkFQcFdw71sfL1cndo4s7pfG-47nL_mtiMRxfHjH4S4tRADUJmrSAT6H/s320/P7120283.JPG" width="240" /></a><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> For some reason, lost in the mists of time, I wanted a 9-12 roof pitch. It could be that the 3-4-5-triangle that describes this pitch intrigued me. Given the immense number of forty-five degree angles created by the multitude of braces and from a practice standpoint, making 6-12 pitched roof might have been easier. Another reason for this particular roof pitch is that the roof angle closely corresponds to the appropriate angle for solar panels in the winter. I suspect that the 9-12 roof pitch simply provided a more pleasing appearance and geometry. The reason could not have been the need for loft space since a forty-foot span, starting two feet above the floor level, would create a huge loft at any reasonable roof pitch.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I spent the last days of my apprenticeship with Ed, going over my house plan drawings. This was the occasion when he told me that I would need a crane. Not wanting to believe this, I changed the subject. The only kind of joint that I had no shop experience making by then was a birds-beak, the crucial joint between the posts and rafters. I don’t know if it was his confidence in me, or total skepticism about this whole project, but his response was, “you’ll figure it out when you get there.” Curiously enough, I began this project starting with the decking through to the erecting of the wall framing having never made a birds-beak joint. Why I did not believe his pronouncement that I would need a crane, but did believe this proclamation that I would know how to cut a birds-beak joint when I got there still baffles me! It turns out that Ed was wrong about the crane but right about the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">birds-beak</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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The day I met Ed - he sent me to the top of the left hand dormer! </h3>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Ironically enough, my first hands-on experience with timber framing involved a dormer. I included a south-facing dormer in my plan because I had visions of a loft full of light, utility and space - a whole living space unto itself. I took photos of the dormers that I had helped to construct but the joinery at the valley rafter peak eluded me. This point was the only place in my plan that was a vague sketch rather than an exact drawing. I had asked Ed about valley rafters and their connection to a purlin several times. On this last day before leaving for Colorado to begin my adventure, he revealed to me that he was still searching for the perfect solution to this joinery problem! I was thunderstruck! The last house that we had built included five dormers in a single room! Rather than talk about mundane birds-beak joints, we went out to the shop for a quick lesson on Ed’s current notion on how dormers should be framed in timbers. While I made a sample joint to take with me to Colorado, Ed fired up his portable band saw and made a ten-foot long 8x14 to serve as the purlin to house the two valley rafters and dormer ridge beam. I was touched and thrilled. Ed really did think that I could build my own timber frame, complete with a dormer. I thought of my apprenticeship with Ed as Timber Framing 101. Obviously, Ed had confidence that I would pass Timber Framing 102, birds-beaks and valley rafters, all on my own.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">As it turned out, a dormer did not get installed. The massive roof timbering that I had committed myself to building without a crane was more than enough of a challenge at the time. I figured that if I really needed a dormer, I could, at some point in the future, simply rebuild that section of the roof. I still have that ten-foot long 8 by 14 and the lack of a dormer still disappoints me somewhat. On the other hand, the roof is finished and does not leak. A ten-foot long 8x14 will make a dandy mantel for the fireplace to be. Sorry about that Ed.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">As fate would have it, my neighbor in this wilderness development, two lots south of our lot and about a quarter mile distant, had the audacity to build his home in the direct line of sight of the view from this un-built dormer. Just recently, I planted five Douglas fir seedlings at the edge of my lot. Hopefully, someday these trees will screen the view of that house. Then, some enterprising owner of this house may wonder why there is no dormer and install one! </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The braces within the bent are 36 inches long and the braces within the bays are 30 inches long. Since the beams all meet at the same level the different sized braces insure that the brace mortises are at different level on the posts.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Although I had ordered extra timbers to cover the possibility of cutting disasters or flawed timbers, virtually every timber in the pile had been carefully evaluated for its size and shape and marked ahead of time. Once a section was raised, I went to the timber pile to find the timbers that I would need to complete the next section. It never failed that the timbers that I wanted to use next were not at the top of the pile. I stored timbers on rails that were supported off the ground by the short blocks that were the waste end of other timbers. These rails were usually the ten-foot timbers that I had rejected. On these rails, I tried not to stack timbers more than two high with three-inch stickers between them. I also left the ends of the rails unused. That way, if the timber that I wanted was on the bottom layer, I could slide the upper layer onto the unused part of the rails, lift the timber that I wanted up on top of the stack, slide it to the edge of the pile and onto my cart and wheel the timber to the basement workshop. I repeated this process to get the particular timbers that I wanted to work with into the basement. Then I went back to the pile and re-stacked the remaining timbers and recovered them with the tarp.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I started this project using plastic tarps. Not only were they hard to keep from blowing away in the wind, when I held them down with blocks and tied their edges with ropes, the wind just flapped them to death. In due course, the sun also rotted these tarps and I ended up with blue plastic threads all over everywhere. The building inspector at the time sold me his large (50 feet square), used, army-green canvas tarps. These tarps take much longer to rot in the sun and weigh a ton, which at least made them easier to tie and weigh down and harder for the wind to blow them away.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Once I had the timbers that I needed in the workshop, I stored them on blocks as well. This not only kept them dryer (rain and snow did blow into a daylight basement) but also made them easier to get to the tops of the sawhorses. I made an “in” pile, and an “out” pile with the sawhorses in between. The trick is to make the piles close enough to the sawhorses so that timbers could be easily moved from place to place (the one end at a time trick) and still leave enough room around the sawhorses to work on one.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Once a timber finally made it to the </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">sawhorses</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">, I planed it with a three-inch electric planer and sanded it with a three-inch belt sander until it as smooth, straight and square as I could make it. This often resulted in the timber being smaller than the planned size. Though this finishing work may seem like overkill, Linda thanked me five years later when she was oiling the finished house timbers. The timbers are so smooth that she did not get even one splinter.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> The difference between the design post size and the planed and sanded post size results in the need to make minor beam and girt length corrections. For instance, the designed beam between two posts is 176 inches long and the two posts are designed to be 8 inches wide. If one of the posts is 7 3/4 inches wide, then the the beam needs to be cut 1/4 inch longer (176 1/4 inches long). Therefore, in order for final house dimensions to be correct, before any beam or girt timber is cut to length, all of the actual post dimensions must be established. The goal is to insure that all of the outside timber surfaces are flush with each other and the outside frame dimensions are correct. Minor timber dimension differences are left on the inside of the frame where flush surfaces are not necessary. If a beam that is 7 3/4 inch wide meets a post that is 8 inches wide, the joinery is cut so that the outside surface is flush and the missing 1/4 inch of width is on the inside of the frame.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Before any joinery is cut into any timber, several important preparations need to be made. The work space should be large enough to easily maneuver the timbers, well lit, at a comfortable temperature and have adequate ventilation. The sawhorses used to support the timber must be sturdy enough to support several hundred pounds without wiggling, at a height that is appropriate to the comfort of the timber framer and sit firmly on the floor. It is handy when using electric tools to have several outlets of adequate amperage available so that all the tools that will be needed can stay plugged in. One could argue however, that having only one extension cord to trip over and one tool plugged in at a time is safer. It is also important to have a place out of the way to dispose of cut-off pieces of wood. I usually kicked them under the sawhorses and cleaned up the mess at the end of the day. This is not the safest technique since these pieces under the sawhorses still present a tripping hazard.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Although it might appear obvious, it is easy to forget how heavy a timber can be. Never allow a body part to be downhill from a timber. Once gravity unexpectedly decides to move the timber, you cannot move your precious body part fast enough to get out of the way. One should always roll a timber away, rather than toward you. Although a timber falling off of the sawhorses and crashing to the floor is not desirable, having to try and jump out of the way of a falling timber is worse.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I often had two timbers on the sawhorses at one time. This trick is handy when you are creating identical timbers since it is easy to see that they match each other. The other timber also serves as a handy table on which to set tools and measuring devices. However, it is also easy to knock the other timber off of the sawhorses when rolling the timber that you are working on. It is also easy to find your fingers between the timber you are rolling and the other timber. It is also probably obvious that you should not roll a timber such that your fingers will end up between the timber and the top of the sawhorse. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I found that the best sawhorse arrangement is to separate them by a bit less than half of the length of the timber. Keeping the timber approximately centered on the two sawhorses places the center of gravity of the timber between the sawhorses and distributes the weight of the timber evenly on each sawhorse. This arrangement also provides plenty of room to work at the ends of the timber. If you should slide the timber along the sawhorses too far, the end that slides off of the sawhorse will fall between the two sawhorses where you are not likely to be standing. If for some strange reason you want to spin the timber around, with a great deal of caution, one can slide the timber onto one sawhorse and it will be balanced. One can then walk the end of the timber in a circle while it is balanced on this sawhorse. The need to perform this trick is probably a result of poor planning.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Dropping a chisel on concrete is also a really bad thing to happen and causes hours of sharpening time. My chisels were made in England and the steel is extremely hard. The good thing about this is that they can be made to be extremely sharp and keep that sharp edge for a long time. The bad thing is that sharpening them takes forever. I once had my corner chisel sharpened in a machine shop. The owner happily agreed to undertake this project but when I returned to pick up my chisel and asked if he would sharpen my other chisels, he said that the price would be considerably higher. It seems that he did not realize the hardness of the steel of my chisels and vastly underestimated how long it would take to sharpen them!</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Another chisel edge hazard that one probably doesn’t think about is the stuff that people put in trees, like nails and bullets. Bullets are usually made of lead or copper and cutting through one is merely a surprise. An iron nail, on the other hand, can make a dandy nick in a chisel edge. Surprisingly enough, a nick in the chisel edge has a significant effect on its sharpness and grinding out a good size nick can take quite a while. Pounding your chisel through a nail buried in a timber is extremely annoying and to be avoided at all costs! </span><br />
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Sill East North</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DSEN</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Sill East South</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DSES</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Sill West North</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DSWN</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Sill West South</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DSWS</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Sill North East</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DSNE</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Sill North West</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DSNW</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Sill South East</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DSSE</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Sill South West</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DSSW</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Beam East North</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DBEN</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Beam East Center</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DBEC</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Beam East South</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DBES</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Beam West North</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DBWN</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Beam West Center</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DBWC</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">147</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Deck Beam West South</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DBWS</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Deck Girt East North</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DGEN</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Deck Girt East South</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DGES</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Deck Girt Center North</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DGCN</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Deck Girt Center South</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DGCS</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Deck Girt West North</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DGWN</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Deck Girt West South</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DGWS</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">48</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">36</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,728</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: x-small;">Deck Joist Outside</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DJO</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">288</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: x-small;">Deck Joist Inside</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DJI</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">67</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">267</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Deck Post Stairwell Outside</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DPSO</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">67</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">67</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Deck Post Stairwell Center</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DPSC</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">213</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Deck Post Stairwell Inside</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DPSI</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">64</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Deck Landing Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DLG</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Deck Post Daylight</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DPD</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">128</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Deck Post Garage</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DPG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">64</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Deck Girt Daylight</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DGD</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Deck Brace 24 Daylight</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">DB24D</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Deck Total:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,444</span></td>
<td align="right" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">24,498</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lbs.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 Timbers:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">#</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Width</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Height</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Length</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ea. Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Total Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Description</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Symbol</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 North Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1NP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 North Center Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1NCP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 North Center Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 1 South Center Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1SCP</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 South Center Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 South Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1SP</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 1 North Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1NB</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 1 Center Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1CB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 1 South Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1SB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">36</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 1 Lower Brace 36</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1LB36</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 1 Lower Brace 24</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1LB24</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 North Queen Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1NQP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 North Strut Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1NSP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 South Queen Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1SQP</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 South Strut Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1SSP</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 Queen Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1QB</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">18</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 1 Queen Brace 36</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1UB36</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 North Lower Rafter</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1NLR</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 North Upper Rafter</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1NUR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 King Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1KP</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 South Lower Rafter</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1SLR</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 South Upper Rafter</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B1SUR</span></td>
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<tr>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 1 Total:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,170</span></td>
<td align="right" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,264</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lbs.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 Timbers:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">#</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Width</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Height</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Length</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ea. Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Total Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Description</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Symbol</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 North Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2NP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 North Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 North Center Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2NCP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 North Center Post Top Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE4</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 North Center Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 Center Center Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2CCP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">24</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 Lower Center Brace 24</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2LCB24</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 South Center Post Top Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE4</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 South Center Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #339966;">Bent 2 Landing Girt</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2WLG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 South Center Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2SCP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 South Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2SP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 South Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 2 North Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2NB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 2 Center Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2CB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 2 South Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2SB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">36</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 Lower Brace 36</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2LB36</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 North Queen Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2NQP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 North Queen Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 North Strut Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2NSP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 South Queen Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2SQP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 South Queen Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 South Strut Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2SSP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 2 Queen Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2QB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">18</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 Queen Brace 36</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2UB36</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: magenta;">Bent 2 North Lower Rafter</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2NLR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: magenta;">Bent 2 North Upper Rafter</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2NUR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 King Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2KP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 King Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: magenta;">Bent 2 South Lower Rafter</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2SLR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: magenta;">Bent 2 South Upper Rafter</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B2SUR</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 2 Total:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,268</span></td>
<td align="right" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,704</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lbs.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 Timbers:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">#</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Width</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Height</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Length</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ea. Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Total Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Description</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Symbol</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 North Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3NP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 North Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 North Center Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3NCP</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 North Center Post Top Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE4</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 North Center Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 Center Center Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3CCP</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">24</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 Lower Center Brace 24</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3LCB24</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 South Center Post Top Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE4</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 South Center Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 South Center Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3SCP</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 South Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3SP</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 South Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 3 North Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3NB</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 3 Center Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3CB</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 3 South Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3SB</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">36</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 2 Lower Brace 36</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3LB36</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 North Queen Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3NQP</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 North Queen Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 North Strut Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3NSP</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 South Queen Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3SQP</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 South Queen Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 South Strut Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3SSP</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Bent 3 Queen Beam</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3QB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">18</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 Queen Brace 36</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3UB36</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: magenta;">Bent 3 North Lower Rafter</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3NLR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: magenta;">Bent 3 North Upper Rafter</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3NUR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 3 King Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3KP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 King Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: magenta;">Bent 3 South Lower Rafter</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3SLR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: magenta;">Bent 3 South Upper Rafter</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B3SUR</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 3 Total:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,252</span></td>
<td align="right" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,632</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lbs.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 Timbers:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">#</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Width</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Height</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Length</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ea. Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Total Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Description</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Symbol</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 North Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4NP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 North Center Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4NCP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 North Center Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 4 South Center Post</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4SCP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 South Center Post Bottom Spline</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">SPLINE5</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 South Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4SP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 North Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4NB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 Center Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4CB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 South Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4SB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">36</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 4 Lower Brace 36</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4LB36</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 4 Lower Brace 24</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4LB24</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 North Queen Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4NQP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 North Strut Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4NSP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 South Queen Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4SQP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 South Strut Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4SSP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 Queen Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4QB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">18</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bent 4 Queen Brace 36</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4UB36</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 North Lower Rafter</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4NLR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 North Upper Rafter</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4NUR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 King Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4KP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 South Lower Rafter</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4SLR</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: magenta; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 South Upper Rafter</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">B4SUR</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bent 4 Total:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,170</span></td>
<td align="right" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,264</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lbs.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 Timbers:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">#</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Width</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Height</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Length</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ea. Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Total Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Description</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Symbol</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 North Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1NG</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 North Summer Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1NSB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 North Center Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1NCG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 South Center Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1SCG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 South Summer Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1SSB</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 South Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1SG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">90</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bay 1 Brace 30</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1B30</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 North Loft Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1NLG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 South Loft Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1SLG</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">64</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">640</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 Purlin</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1P</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 Ridge</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1R</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">24</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 Ridge Brace</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY1RB</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bay 1 Total:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,591</span></td>
<td align="right" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">7,161</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lbs.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 Timbers:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">#</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Width</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Height</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Length</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ea. Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Total Bd. Ft.</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Description</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Symbol</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">40</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">40</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 North Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2NG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 North Joist</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2NJ</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 North Center Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2NCG</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 North Center Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2NCP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">48</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 Landing Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2LG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 Center Center Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2CCP</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">21</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">43</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 Loft Floor Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2CCG</span></td>
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<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 South Center Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2SCG</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #993366; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 South Center Post</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2SCP</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">192</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 South Joist</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2SJ</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">40</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">40</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 South Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2SG</span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bay 2 Brace 24</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2B24</span></td>
</tr>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 North Loft Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2NLG</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">53</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 South Loft Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2NLG</span></td>
</tr>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">288</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 Purlin</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2P</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 Chimney Purlin</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2P</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">40</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">40</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 Ridge</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2R</span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #993366;">Bay 2 Ridge Brace</span></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2RB</span></td>
</tr>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bay 2 Total:</span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,304</span></td>
<td align="right" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,868</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lbs.</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="left" colspan="3" rowspan="1" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Bay 3 Timbers:</b></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>#</b></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Width</b></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Height</b></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Length</b></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ea. Bd. Ft.</b></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Total Bd. Ft.</b></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Description</b></span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Symbol</b></span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 North Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3NG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">384</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 North Joist</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2NJ</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 North Summer Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3NSB</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 North Center Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3NCG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">192</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 Center Joist</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2NJ</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 South Center Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3SCG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">96</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #3366ff; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 South Summer Beam</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3SSB</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">384</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 South Joist</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY2SJ</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #339966; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 South Girt</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3SG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">90</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #993366;">Bay 3 Brace 30</span></b></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3B30</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #339966;">Bay 3 North Loft Girt</span></b></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3NLG</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">107</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #339966; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #339966;">Bay 3 South Loft Girt</span></b></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3NLG</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">64</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">640</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 Purlin</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3P</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">80</span></td>
<td align="left" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-small;">Bay 3 Ridge</span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3R</span></td>
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<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12</span></td>
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<td align="left" style="color: #993366; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #993366;">Bay 3 Ridge Brace</span></b></span></td>
<td align="left" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="bottom"><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY3RB</span></td>
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<td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></td><td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>379</b></span></td><td align="center" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Timbers</b></span></td><td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td colspan="2" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: right;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Bd. Ft = </b></span></td><td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>15,749</b></span></td><td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>70,871</b></span></td><td style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;" valign="center"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Lbs.</b></span></td>
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michaelstf101http://www.blogger.com/profile/00157055419261170638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4837922166790580098.post-29985274596142484242013-05-08T16:05:00.005-07:002013-05-10T14:28:33.352-07:00Chapter 14 - The Finished Frame<style type="text/css">#toc, .toc, .mw-warning { border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 5px; font-size: 95%; }#toc h2, .toc h2 { display: inline; border: medium none; padding: 0pt; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold; }#toc #toctitle, .toc #toctitle, #toc .toctitle, .toc .toctitle { text-align: center; }#toc ul, .toc ul { list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; margin-left: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; text-align: left; }#toc ul ul, .toc ul ul { margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 2em; }#toc .toctoggle, .toc .toctoggle { font-size: 94%; }body { font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-indent: 0in; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; widows: 2; }table { }td { border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; }p, h1, h2, h3, li { color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; }</style>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I’ve read that traditionally, the completion of a timer frame is celebrated by nailing a pine bough to the peak of the frame. I recall considering this tradition and how I might abide by it. Cutting a Colorado pine bough and nailing it to a frame that was made from Pennsylvania oak trees just didn’t seem appropriate. I had no oak boughs from Pennsylvania and the local scrub oak didn’t seem appropriate either. For better, or for worse, I was interrupted before the frame was completed, the party of my neighbors watched me install the last purlin and by the time the champagne was gone, the pine bough tradition was too late and totally out of mind! This was not exactly a traditional timber frame and certainly not built in the traditional fashion, so maybe the tradition was not appropriate anyway. In many respects, it was more like launching a new ship. Carl even wanted to smash a Campaign bottle on the bow but wasn’t sure where the bow was or that we had enough Campaign to waste a whole bottle. In any case, the frame was done, the ship launched and Linda and I have been enjoying it every day since.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Now it was time for the truly exciting part of building my timber framed structure. This is the peak of the house, the highest point, and the place with the best view, the most wind and the longest trip to the floor! I spent some time at the tops of the queen posts before I started to get used to this elevated location. Evaluating the fit of the lower rafters at the tops of the queen posts was more to have a reason to be there than having any expectation that something might be wrong or need to be fixed or that any problem was even fixable. There were no joists to stand on or leap to and nothing overhead to steady my balance. The building of the peak was where all of the practice and experience would culminate in catastrophe or success.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> The first thing to decide was where to start. I started the loft level framing over the two outside bays and then connected the center bay timbers between them. I did that so that if the structure was out of plumb or square, I could make some adjustments in the center bay. Since I didn’t need to make any adjustments, this sequence didn’t seem necessary for the peak. Another consideration was that the peak assemblies were just a king post and a peak purlin, two legs and a crosspiece. This assembly would not stand solidly until the two upper rafters were attached to hold it up. The loft assemblies stood solidly without the lower rafters since they were four legged boxes. The biggest consideration though was the size of the assemblies involved. I felt more comfortable with the idea of starting with the smaller 8-foot wide assembly over the center bay rather than the 16-foot assemblies over the outside bays</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">me. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Furthermore, I reasoned that the outside structures would be easier to raise if the inside king posts were already in place and well secured. That way I would only have to worry about the outside king post and its peak purlin instead of two king posts and a peak purlin all at the same time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Ignoring the height above the ground, and the fact that my raising equipment would need to be set up on top of the loft timbers, the peak assemblies should be easier to raise because the peak purlin is not as high as the loft and first floor cross beams. The peak purlin is attached to the top of the king posts that are only 7 feet tall instead of the 8 or 9-foot height of the loft and first floor cross beams attached to 10-foot tall posts. Though this is simply an artifact of the geometry, this shorter structure seemed a lot friendlier.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Once I had rationalized that raising the peak was going to be no big deal, I cut the parts. Since I wanted the peak to be a focal point, and one would be looking at it from two stories below, I made the braces a bit larger than the other braces. These braces are the same length and shape as the other braces but are an inch larger in the width and thickness. This slightly larger brace size makes the roof structure appear more solid and obvious. The king posts also appear slightly larger than the other posts because the tops where the rafters and peak purlin meet it are 10 inches wide instead of the 8-inch width of the queen posts. This extra width is actually there to accommodate the mortise for the peak purlin in the center of the face of the king post. I made the king posts from 8x10 timbers and ripped the bottom of the posts to form 8x8 posts leaving the 10-inch width at the top to accommodate the three mortises, two for the upper rafter ends on each side of the king post and one for the peak purlin on the face of the king post. Ripping an inch off the sides of an 8x10 timber is no easy task! I wanted the peak purlin to match the size of the other purlins that are 6x8 timbers. In order to create this size for the visible part of the peak purlin and have a pointed top edge, the peak purlins are made from 6x10 timbers. Ripping two 45 degree angles along the top of these timbers to form a straight point along the top edge of the timber is also not an easy task! From a practical point of view, this top pointed edge will never be seen and isn’t even necessary for attaching a roof, but I believe that sometimes the principal is more important than any practical considerations. I think of it as craftsmanship.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The next morning started out a bit windy and the idea of raising the next peak purlin and its post did not seem like a good plan. With every passing hour, the wind speed increased by about ten miles per hour. Before noon, the wind was roaring at about fifty miles per hour and was not likely to stop until dark. Panic set in. I had visions of two king post spear points sticking through the deck into the apartment. Worse, was the fact that the 1/4-inch hemp rope that I had used to support this structure was not only wimpy but the only rope that I had readily available. The only rope left was the 100 feet of block and tackle rope. If that wasn’t enough to strike terror into my heart, I realized that I was going to have to go up there in the gale and improve my guy lines with that block and tackle rope. Though I hated to do it, I also nailed braces to the king post and the beam that it was standing on. I was terrorized by wind gusts for the rest of the day. I’ll never know if the additional rope and braces were necessary or not, but I’ll never forget that windy Colorado day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">About six months later, only a few months after Linda had moved here, there was another windy Colorado day. Linda had just started nursing at the local hospital and was scheduled to work that day. She experienced the same sort of terror that I had not too long before and called the hospital declaring a “wind emergency”! Naturally, the local folk were a bit perplexed. The “Chinook winds” were a completely new experience for both of us; where we came from, they would be called a “Hurricane”!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The next day, my world was back to normal and I got back to work. Obviously, putting up another guy lined ridge purlin was not as good a plan as putting in the upper rafters that would hold up the already standing king posts. Since the upper rafters have the same joinery as the lower rafters and I had done this eight times before, I knew exactly where to move the gin pole to raise these four upper rafters. I remember from my previous career someone complaining that the trouble with engineers is that they are always changing things. Never content with “it works fine and is good enough”, the engineer in me was always changing how I did things, trying to find a better way. For this raising, I used two come-alongs strung end-to-end to reach from the top of the gin pole to the upper rafter lying on the loft level, instead of the block and tackle and a come-along arrangement. The advantage of omitting the block and tackle is that you don’t have to tie off the block and tackle rope to stop the raising process; you just quit cranking the come-along.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">On my 47th birthday, I had one more purlin to install to finish the frame. I was disappointed that Linda was not there for this momentous event. My friend, Carl, who had been visiting on a regular basis, was aware of my mood and took it upon himself to make this occasion more noteworthy. With excellent timing, a parade of neighbors and their dogs came down the driveway to help me celebrate, champagne and all! One member of the group even brought his video recorder and later gave me a tape of the event. I was touched by Carl’s thoughtfulness and the support of my neighbors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">My photograph collection is focused on the raising of the frame because, for me, this was the most interesting and challenging part of the project. One could almost think that the finished timbers were being delivered now and then, and I took pictures of raising them! Actually, for every timber-raising event, there were several weeks of timber cutting that never made it to film. There were 268 dovetails and 140 brace tenons and their 408 associated mortises to be cut - not mention a host of other mortise and tenon joints - all as close to identical as possible and incredibly boring to document. However, this joinery is crucial to the construction of a timber framed building. I’ll discuss the time-consuming and somewhat boring process of timber joinery cutting in the chapter called “Joinery”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Linda takes her jobs very seriously. I told her that the timbers that were sitting in drippy humid Pennsylvania needed to be turned from time to time so they would dry evenly and not get moldy. I was only half serious, since most of those timbers were much heavier than she is. She also learns very quickly. She had her favorite stick (lever) and rolled each timber regularly, kept them covered with tarps, cared for them like her children and I found them in perfect condition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Meanwhile, Keith, my trusty sawyer was busy making oak boards. He had about six bundles of boards in his saw yard that I could have for less than a dollar a board foot. That seemed like a lot of wood, and at the time, what I would use all those boards for was only vaguely clear. I figured that there were enough boards in his pile to cover the first floor twice! Though these boards were not the best grade lumber on the planet, the price seemed right. Besides, we had to fill a flatbed with something, and keeping Keith happy was a very good idea. As I write this, I’m running out of boards and have no idea how I would have finished this house without them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">In a few weeks, I had all the timbers banded and all those boards un-stickered and re-stacked into nice tidy bundles. After two previous flatbed loading experiences, I basically knew what I was doing this time. Having learned that I was not very good at estimating timber weights, this time I had the driver take the truck to a scale the day before he was to leave and before Keith took his backhoe home. Sure enough, the load was over weight, and a few bundles of boards were left behind.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_PWgvMIUZ7MuuiHHhExm6OR_-O3Q2voe3hXQ5PsaD96RZmERJ4o84e7jhSGI8AUMjFlQsOuPp4W6ALO0doO8Dgd2JA-zilDxDHT4923tIUvFbnN4d9iRc0WrvAjcXboBXswkU2eMrEHJg/s1600/July+98+-+Forklift+-+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_PWgvMIUZ7MuuiHHhExm6OR_-O3Q2voe3hXQ5PsaD96RZmERJ4o84e7jhSGI8AUMjFlQsOuPp4W6ALO0doO8Dgd2JA-zilDxDHT4923tIUvFbnN4d9iRc0WrvAjcXboBXswkU2eMrEHJg/s320/July+98+-+Forklift+-+1.jpg" width="216" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">On July 15, 1998, Linda and I were again cruising across the country, this time in a big new moving truck. This load included all Linda’s precious stuff and even a mattress that we used as a motel room at truck stops. Most folks seem to think that that was pretty weird, but it made perfect sense to us. Once we got to Colorado, I went looking for the fellow in town with the forklift. I had to resort to the rental store, which fortunately had exactly what I needed. Unfortunately it did not come with an operator. This did not seem like a very good time to learn how to operate a forklift but it was certainly exciting. Actually it was not that hard, I’ve had a lot more trouble mastering a backhoe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">With all of our stuff either put in the place that Linda had planned for it in the apartment or stacked in the corner of the workshop under tarps, it was time to get back to work. By now it was August and if I was going to get the frame done in keeping with my chiseled in oak date of “1998”, I had to move right along. I had already done the hard part of the loft level framing, the part that seemed the highest in the air. The back half also had the advantage of joists to stand on. Compared to the open bay #1 area, this end was like working on the ground! By September 16th, the loft level was finished.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">All I have are photos of the raising technique for the back half of the loft raising that I developed after quite a bit of practice. After lifting the two queen posts and their bay beam to the loft level, I assembled and strapped together the unit along with the braces and the spline for the middle bay beam. This process insures that all of the joinery fits before the unit is lifted into place. The base of the crane, standing on runners, is attached to a first floor beam behind it with an orange ratchet strap. As the crane lifts the assembly, the post bottoms slide and catch on the post bottom blocks stopping the assembly from sliding toward the crane. Once the posts are stopped from sliding toward the crane, without the strap to hold the crane in place, jacking up the crane would simply pull the crane forward on its runners under the assembly. When the assembly was beyond half way raised, most of its weight was directed to the bottom of the posts. Because most of the weight is now off the crane, the ratchet strap can be shortened easily, pulling the crane backward on its runners and continuing to raise the assembly.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj159jWD0TbdTxmRxhYlMK_uWbTLscW5M8Q-j2gTPSmnXsR147fmmbDPuuCeLNGmAkFdTq8zGQPHmP-FzprersC9DeCpciPziLgE5-0O5y6RYnmlD8RcDcoZe3vsAgysh8eVpHW3DUWinYJ/s1600/July+98+-+Loft+-+4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj159jWD0TbdTxmRxhYlMK_uWbTLscW5M8Q-j2gTPSmnXsR147fmmbDPuuCeLNGmAkFdTq8zGQPHmP-FzprersC9DeCpciPziLgE5-0O5y6RYnmlD8RcDcoZe3vsAgysh8eVpHW3DUWinYJ/s320/July+98+-+Loft+-+4.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The crane runners in this raising are only 2-inch thick boards instead of the 6x8 timbers that were used for this raising in bay #1. That is because the bent beam is higher than the bay beam that the crane is attached to so the crane didn’t need to be as tall to lift the assembly. Also, in this bay, I had joists to support the center of the boards that would have bent under the weight of the crane over the open area in bay #1.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">There are two blue ropes attached to the bay beam and the first floor framing that are tied to the right length to prevent the assembly from being pulled over too far beyond vertical. Continuing to shorten the orange ratchet strap pulled the crane backward and the assembly the rest of the way to vertical. Once the assembly was upright, the other ends of the blue ropes are attached to the first floor framing on the crane side of the assembly to guy the unit in place. The crane can then be disconnected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Despite the fact that I carefully measured and cut the lower rafters, I raised them in opposite pairs without pegging them so that I could fractionally adjust their fit after they were in place. Since the queen posts were not pegged to the frame, but rather resting on the beams underneath them on their blocks, I could still move the queen post and beam unit in the direction of either lower rafter a bit. Once the joinery of both lower rafters were held tightly in place with straps wrapped around the first floor framing, pulling them downward, I compared the fit at the tops of the two queen posts. I made the two rafters fit the tops of the two queen posts by pulling down on one rafter and loosening the other rafter. The two queen posts could also be slightly moved to help this fitting process. I had already done this alignment process with the bent #1 and bent #2 lower rafters. After adjusting the bent #3 lower rafters, I also made sure that the tops of all of the queen posts were aligned along the axis of the frame. Making sure that all of the joinery fit together tightly, I then pegged the rafters at each end and the tops and bottoms of the stub posts. This rafter and stub post pegging locked the queen post locations on top of the beams in place. I then repeated this process for the bent #4 lower rafters.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Now that the rafters and queen posts were all firmly in place, I could install the purlins connecting the rafters together. The purlins for bays #1 and bay #3 are nominally 14 feet, 8 inches long and the center bay purlins are nominally 8 feet long. I, of course, measured each span before I made the purlin to get a precise fit for each purlin. All of them are 6x8 timbers with un-housed dovetails at each end. The purlins are spaced 4 feet apart, from center to center so that any standard roofing plan would work. At the time, I was thinking in terms of stress-skin panels that come in 4-foot wide sections or could span 4 feet. Each bay has six purlins connecting the lower rafters together, three on each side of the queen posts. The north center bay is slightly different; its top purlin is omitted. This difference is to provide a space for a chimney to pass through the framing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The last time that Linda was here, she wondered why I was cutting off all of the peg ends. Because I was reasonably athletically inclined and knew how to use a hand saw; cutting off the peg ends was the job that I always wound up with when I worked with Ed. It was just part of the process. Linda thought that I should leave the peg ends sticking out of the frame. They would come in handy to hang stuff on! So, I quit cutting off the peg ends, except when the mallet mangled them beyond hope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The loft framing was done in two phases. Phase I is during the seven weeks between the finishing of the first floor framing and the first of June. I then returned to Pennsylvania and it took about a month to arrange for the third and final flatbed truckload of oak timbers and boards to be delivered to Colorado. In the middle of July, Linda and I rented a moving truck, loaded it up with more furniture and followed the flatbed to Colorado. While we were together in our apartment, we re-arranged the furniture and stored the furniture that wouldn’t fit in the apartment under a tarp in the corner of the daylight basement. Phase II of the loft level raising began after Linda went home and was completed on September 16, 1998.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">As usual, my documentation begins after the first steps of the project are done. I was more occupied with how I was going to safely accomplish this phase of the project than photographing the process. Perhaps I had documented enough ”oops” that I didn’t want to do it again!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">My problem solving technique involves the extensive use of the process known as “sleep on it”. If the problem is complicated or new enough, this “sleep on it” process can be very long! I usually wake up with a notion of a solution to the perceived problem and spend the rest of the day fitting this solution into the existing grand plan. This often leads to another problem to sleep on, starting the process all over again. Sometimes I even resort to finding a book on the subject or asking someone who might have some ideas on the matter. In due course, a plan worth testing without any foreseeable “gotchas” evolves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">My high school English teacher required as part of the course that we keep a journal, and turn it in once a week so that he could make sure that we actually wrote something. I think his plan was to provide penmanship and authorship practice. Since high school I kept other journals from time to time that I have found useful for one reason or another later on. While building this house, I made tons of drawings and lists, took many photos, filmed several hours of what I thought were significant events, but did not write one line in a journal. I certainly wish that I had done so, now that I am trying to remember what happened several years ago! I mentioned this to Linda and her response was that I was probably so tired at the end of every day that writing in a journal was not an option. Perhaps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Since it took several days in the basement to create the posts, beams and braces for the first section of the loft framing, I had several nights to sleep on the plan to raise them on top of the existing first floor framing. At some point, it dawned on me that, contrary to my notion that it would be just like the raising of first floor level only higher up, there was a big problem that needed to be solved. The first floor posts had a very convenient hole and peg in the deck that insured that they would be guided to and held in their proper location as they were being raised into position with guy lines as an insurance policy. All that I had on the top of the existing first floor framing was a nice slippery eight-inch wide beam to stand the posts on with a big drop-off on either side. Unlike raising a post on the deck, dancing with the post to move it to its hole was not going to work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">As I was creating the loft framing, it also occurred to me that this structure was very big. It was the same shape as the post, beam and brace structure at the ends of the first floor extensions, but the beam was twice as long. Even with this 250-pound weight difference, I could probably raise it like I did the extension ends if I could solve the post bottom-anchoring problem. On the other hand, this longer beam made it the same as the corner structure, so perhaps I could raise it like I did the corners. However, the raising of the corners had the advantage of one of the end posts already being firmly set in place. All I had to do in the corners was raise one post, set it in its deck hole, anchor it temporarily in place with guy lines and then lift and install the beam and braces in between. I could not come up with a plan that would insure that I could lift two posts into position on an 8-inch wide beam, make the beam braces stay put in these posts and make all of this stay put while I raised a 16-foot beam between them. One oops, bump or gust of wind could send these pieces crashing to the ground, or worse, through the deck and into the basement! If these raising problems were not enough to scare me to death, the fact that the only place that I would have to put my feet would be the tops of the 8-inch wide first floor beams 9 feet above the decking should have. I tried to stay focused on the physics problem and ignore the scariness of the situation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I used this plan to raise the first loft post and beam assembly. First, I assembled the two posts and their beam and braces horizontally. The post bottoms were then aligned with my blocks. Several straps were attached end-to-end and stretched from the loft post and beam assembly to the far side of the frame with a come-along attached to the beam. I lifted this assembly with a pair of come alongs attached to the far side of the frame. Once the first come-along had gone from fully extended to as short as it could get, a second come-along was necessary to continue the lifting process. The second come-along was strung from one of the strap loops to another loop further back along the strap. Shortening the second come-along shortened the strap length and continued the lifting of the assembly toward vertical. Knowing how I raised the rest of the loft framing (with the crane), this method was definitely the hard way and no doubt put a lot of stress on the beam that I used to pull from, not to mention the blocks that held the post bottoms in place. As I think about this process now, I am a little amazed that this method actually worked. It does indicate the solidity of the first floor framing though.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I devised a different method to raise the second loft post, beam and brace assembly. Two 16-foot long 6x8-inch timbers were stretched across the bay. These two timbers provided a table upon which to assemble the post, beam and brace assembly. Before this assembly was raised, an orange 2-inch ratchet strap was wrapped around the posts between the brace ends and the beam mortises to hold the assembly together. The table also provided a place to put blocks under the top end of the assembly to tip the top part upward and the bottom part downward toward the loft post bottom blocks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">A come-along and several straps were attached end-to-end connecting the beam of the first post and beam assembly to the beam of the second assembly being raised. Guy ropes running from the first assembly to the first floor frame held the first assembly in place. Attaching the come-along to the beam of the first assembly provided a much better lifting angle than was available for the raising of the first assembly so the lifting process went much easier. Again, once the first come-along had gone from fully extended to as short as it could get, a second come-along was strung from one of the strap loops to another loop further back along the strap. Shortening the second come-along shortened the strap length and continued the raising of the assembly. I obviously had a great deal of faith in the strength of the first floor frame and my ropes, straps and come alongs!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">It was now May 7</span><span lang="en-US" style="vertical-align: super;">th</span><span lang="en-US"> and I had 24 days left before I had to leave for Pennsylvania. The next part of this project was the installation of the four half rafters that connect from the tops of the four first floor posts to the tops of the four loft post that just were raised. These four loft posts are called “queen posts”. The length of these rafters is specified in the drawings based upon geometry calculations. By now I knew that the calculated lengths of timbers and the lengths that they need to be to fit tightly might not be the same. One cause of dimensional deviations is posts that are not exactly the 8x8-inch size that is called for in the plan. Although my theory that if you cut the joinery square and assemble it tightly, the assembly will be square works pretty well, it does not account for timbers that might be bent a bit. Even tiny errors have a tendency to be magnified as you add timbers upon more timbers.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">To get the exact length for each rafter, I used a stick with the rafter angles cut at each end that was exactly the geometrically correct length. I knew that this stick length would be too short because most of the posts are a bit smaller than 8 inches wide. Placing the stick between the rafters, I measured how short the stick was to fit perfectly and added that length to the stick length. With these dimensions, I retrieved four of the 14-foot long 8x10-inch timbers from the timber pile, planed and sanded them, and drew the joinery on them at both ends.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">At this point, the words of my mentor rang in my ears. Having never cut a bird’s beak in Ed’s shop, I recall asking him how you cut this kind of joint. His response was that by the time I got to the cutting of this type of joint, I would know what to do! This was not the answer that I wanted to hear at the time but it did seem like a problem that was really far in the future, so I did not worry about it much. Now was the time to worry about it! I used the end of my longest timber and added another bird’s beak drawing to the spare wood at the end of the timber. I used a post cutoff to create the mortise that was at the tops of the outside posts and another post cutoff to create the mortise that was at the tops of the queen posts. This practice bird’s beak joint came out just fine and fit fine in my model of the post top too. Just to be on the safe side, I cut a practice top end of the rafter as well and it too fit the model of the queen post top. Ed was right, the practice of the last few years made it clear how to cut this fancy joint. I cut off this practice bird’s beak joint and proceeded to cut the four rafters that fit up in the frame perfectly. We still have that cutoff bird’s beak model; I’d like to think that someone would find it fascinating and ask me about it, but mostly, we use it to weigh down plastic lawn chairs to keep them from blowing away in the spring winds! Actually, there are a bunch of these practice joinery stubs lying about the house; they make pretty good doorstops and book ends too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">As usual, the video record is of the raising of the second rafter with the first rafter already in place. There is also one more action packed video documenting the loft framing, Phase I. The beginning of this video is of the raising of the second loft bent beam. Although the background scenery is better because the camera is one story higher, the action is not much different than the taped raising of beams on the first floor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Once I got to the loft framing, my new, improved gin pole became useful. The original gin pole was a 10-foot long 2x6-inch board. The new pole is 18 feet long by mortising and bolting another 10-foot long 2x8-inch board to the original pole. Though unwieldy, this pole was invaluable throughout the rest of the project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The above story of the raising of the rafters skips over an important part of the project, the timber elevator. To raise the roof structure, each timber had to somehow get from the basement workshop to the first floor and up to the loft level. I had lots of practice getting timbers to the first floor. Fortunately, the frame structure provided a way to raise them to the loft level. I use the word “fortunately” because the open (no joists in the way) west part of the frame was designed that way simply to provide open space above the dining room and living room areas. Conveniently, the space in the center of bay #1 was big enough for a 16-foot long timber to fit through the opening crosswise. The center opening is 8 feet wide and 14 feet, 8 inches long, making the cross distance of the opening 16 feet, 8 inches long. The rough timbers that I used for scaffolding barely fit through this opening, but the finished timbers fit through this opening easily. With this handy coincidence in mind and while I had the crane situated in this area, I lifted two 16-foot long 6x8 timbers to lay across the top of the bay #1 loft structure that I had just built. After strapping the ends to the bent beams, I wrapped a chain around the center of the timber that I made sure was in the center of the opening and left the end hook of the chain hanging down far enough that I could reach it from loft scaffolding boards without a ladder.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Leaving one timber up there would have been enough to create the elevator that I had in mind. However, I was contemplating that eventually I would need to raise two king posts and the peak purlin above this timber. I would need at least two timbers up there just to stand reasonably comfortably up at that level - 18 feet above the deck - in the wind - with nothing to hold on to. I was not at all comfortable with this prospect, but I decided that I better get used to the idea. In fact, at this point, I had no notion of how I was going to raise the king posts and peak purlin and, for the moment, avoided wandering about on top of these timbers any more than necessary!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">It was time to suspend the loft framing project and head to Pennsylvania once again. I always drove my truck and took different routes back and forth. Flying long distances to get somewhere quickly is not for me. The views from an airplane are certainly unique, but I would much rather see and experience the world from ground level.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter 11 – First Floor Framing</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Phase III</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The three phases of the framing of the first floor are more based on my mental picture of how to raise the frame than any aspect of the frame itself. I envisioned a central box as a sort of foundation, something good and solid to build upon and use as a sort of central crane. The four extensions from the central box are arms, firmly attached to this foundation, that extend its reach to the edges of a new box. The corners are simply connections of the extensions to form a new and larger box. In theory, one could continue this process, outward to any size box. The final frame, if one doesn’t contemplate the splines, looks just like a bent raised timber frame structure. Once I had found a way to use the tools and materials that I had at hand, the three phases of construction were simply repetitions of the previous process incorporating small improvements that I discovered either by plan or by accident. The framing of the first floor was practice for the same process, another story upward in the loft, just as the basement was practice for the first floor. While I was building the basement, I kept in mind that the first floor would have no solid concrete wall to rely on. While I was building the first floor, I kept in mind that the loft would have no floor to stand on. As for the peak, I assumed that by the time I got there, the practice in the basement, first floor and the loft would provide all of the knowledge and skills that I would need.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The winter of 1997 was a vacation from Colorado! Our first grandchild was born and a flock of birthdays and holidays were celebrated. I made plans and lists, packed things that I wanted to have in Colorado, visited everyone I knew in Pennsylvania, made sure that Keith knew what timbers I needed him to cut and worried about the tarp and apartment in Colorado.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">In February of 1998, Linda and I took a vacation to Colorado. When we got there, the tarp was still firmly in place and the apartment was just as I had left it. However, finding that the cistern was empty, I knew that a leak had developed. I had the solid PVC connection replaced with a rubber connection to solve this problem. No matter how firmly a cistern is planted in the ground, the process of filling it causes it to move enough to break a solid connection. Once our vacation was over, Linda went back to her job in Pennsylvania and I got back to my job in Colorado.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I started the framing of the corners with the southeast corner of the house, the kitchen, and then the northeast corner, the bedroom. This seemed like a good plan because these two corners were only a couple of feet off the ground. I figured that the practice I would gain near ground level would come in handy when I got to the west side corners whose edges were ten feet off the ground. I tried to make sure that the building process did not require me to step off the decking and onto the ground since the western corner posts had no ground to step off onto!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The raising of corner framing was very similar to the raising of the extensions from the central box. The existing attachment points for the beams (the extensions) had splines on which to rest one end of the beam while the corner post was leaned outward far enough (about four inches) for the beam tenons to be inserted into the post mortises. I now knew that the holes in the decking in which the post was inserted worked very well preventing the bottom of the post from moving. The only trick was to keep from tipping the post out too far. To make sure that this didn’t happen, three ropes were attached to the top of the post, two to the nice solid extension framing and one away from the corner attached to some heavy object, such as my truck. This third rope should be long enough so that if the other two ropes failed or the solid extension for some reason fell down, the falling post would not hit the truck! All of these ropes were tied with taut-line hitches so that the tension on any or all of them could be adjusted as necessary to tilt the post and bring it back into vertical.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I never did come up with a way to gracefully raise a single post without just picking up the end and tilting it into its deck hole. Sometimes, I didn’t quite get it in the hole and did a little dance with it. I did however carefully measure the lengths of the two ropes attached to the top of the post so that once I lifted the post upright; the two ropes would keep it from falling over in the other direction. The third rope was also already attached at the top of the post so that I could quickly attach it to a heavy object. With the length of the first two ropes carefully adjusted, pulling on the third rope would not pull the post over. The 10-foot length of the posts was also handy. I could attach these three ropes to the top foot of the posts and they would not interfere with the raising of the beams since all of the beams attached at the 8-foot high level of the post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This phase also took longer because the parts were not precut, but rather, cut in the basement workshop, as I needed them. As I expected, this cut and assemble method went much better. The joinery was cut and assembled within days instead of months and did not have the chance to change shape. This method also resulted in my day-to-day projects changing so boredom did not set in, but the time between repeating the process was short enough that I did not forget what I had done before. As before, when the weather was obnoxious (which is not very often here in paradise) I simply turned my attention to improving the nice warm and comfortable apartment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I should mention that there were also the more mundane, day-to-day projects going on as well, such as making meals, grocery shopping, washing clothes at the laundromat (where there was a phone to call Linda), braiding a rug and visiting with curious neighbors that stopped by to chat. My most frequent visitor was Carl, who was the self-appointed “make-sure-that-Michael-hasn’t-killed-himself” visitor. One bright sunny afternoon, I was in the process of raising the east beam of the bedroom wall. Carl drove in the driveway and stopped his truck within a few feet of the edge of the house. He sat in his truck while we chatted, and at some point I asked him if he wanted to help. “Oh no, if I help, then you won’t be able to say that you built this yourself!” That was true, and I didn’t really want any help anyway. Carl is also the person who, after the basement was covered and knew what the rest of the plan entailed, suggested that I cover the deck with dirt and plant grass. “This apartment is plenty big for just you and Linda!” That too, was true, but I didn’t listen to that advice either.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFarFsNyom7NonWSdohQbt3qWTBM8ukxSaQdUk4nnTxiWjwo6Ou_MKrIUHX3pCqRqFwYT4aoH3wGz0aKWY0557HhCn4rU1OLLcBZM5X1OVqlflNymDWQ2J9fAJzvVUgBx5arILWAvHzOYe/s1600/638+-+Bay+%233+north+beam+raising.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFarFsNyom7NonWSdohQbt3qWTBM8ukxSaQdUk4nnTxiWjwo6Ou_MKrIUHX3pCqRqFwYT4aoH3wGz0aKWY0557HhCn4rU1OLLcBZM5X1OVqlflNymDWQ2J9fAJzvVUgBx5arILWAvHzOYe/s320/638+-+Bay+%233+north+beam+raising.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">In todays video, the bedroom corner framing will be raised. The east side beam on the sawhorses in the workshop will be raised first. The beam for the north side is on the cart, on its way up the hill. I need to cut the brace mortises in the two already raised extension posts. This is the hard way to cut brace mortises and not a good plan. With the brace mortises cut and the post hole in the deck revealed, I am ready to raise the beams. The north beam is raised into position with the right side brace tenon in its beam mortise and the beam tenon in its post mortise. The left side of the beam is in contact with the post and ready to slide down into the housing and onto the brace tenon and post spline. The close-up shows the beam spline mortise that will be lowered onto the post spline. My initials are in the post housing. Slowly lowering the crane arm, the left side of the beam slides down into position. With the beam lowered into position, another come-along pulls the assembly tightly together. Next, the summer beam that drops in the dovetailed mortise in the east beam is installed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">In the daylight basement shop, twelve 6x 8 joists were cut to length and dovetails carved at each end. Using the crane, they were lifted above the beams and lowered into their dovetailed mortises.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The raising of the northwest and southwest corners was done next. The procedure was the same as the northeast corner above, except that there are no joists. Not having anywhere to stand outside the edge of the frame proved not to be the problem that I expected, it was something different – naturally – it’s always something. Again, I didn’t have the foresight to pre-drill the peg holes. To be more generous to myself, it seemed like a good idea at the time to drill and peg the beams after they were raised and tightly in place. Before describing this part of the raising, the post joinery should be explained.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnzkEb104f4FdHoNunfMxApg4QXPAdqxz5G3oMF0eWg1yIlW2vLx9wHee_rK69K3uaUgxXe644EMFFaVbR2SS_aYdbctKe4sUiUZDo9hEeUj_ffCh9jomc-uf8apQzssbAiLrhQ52shOz/s1600/Two-way+intersection+views.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This frame design features all of the top surfaces of the horizontal beams on the first floor level at the 8-foot 10-inch height above the floor. Having never designed a timber framed building before, and certainly not experienced enough to have a firm grasp of all the details; I was concerned about having the entire loft floor surface at the same level across two bays and having beams at that level around the edge of the loft level as well. It seemed to me at the time that this requirement could not be satisfied by the traditional framing methods. In hindsight, this requirement was pretty silly and traditional framing methods would have worked just fine. I seem to have invented a problem and then invented a solution, neither of which was necessary! On the bright side, my solution worked very well and looks beautiful!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">When three beams meet at a post at the same level, only one spline is used. This configuration occurs in eight locations of this frame design, once at each end of the bent #2 and bent #3 first floor bent beams, and once at the ends of each of the four summer beams that extend from the central stairwell box to the outside edge of the frame; in other words, at the ends of the extensions of the central stairwell box. The alternative to this spline technique would be to have tenons at the ends of both 6x10-inch bay beams at the outside of the frame. Both of these tenons would need to be pegged from the outside of the post with short pegs to avoid driving the pegs into the backside of the bent beam housing. The outside bay beams are 6 inches wide meeting an 8-inch wide post. This leaves two inches of exposed post for the pegging of the perpendicular bent beam tenon. This is not a problem as long as the beam is pegged before one or the other bay beams are set in place. The spline is located at the lower edges of the bay beams with the top half of the beams housed into the post. The spline mortise is 4 inches deep, 1 1/2 inches wide and 11 inches long. The spline itself is 5 inches wide, leaving 1 inch exposed below the bottom of the beam. This exposure not only looks nicer, but it increases the amount of wood in the spline. With an 8-inch post, the total spline mortise is 30 inches long. I cut the splines about 1/4-inch short to allow for post shrinkage and to insure that the spline would not interfere with the assembly of the outside corners of the frame. The three braces are three different sizes, as they are in the four-way intersection, 24 inches in bay #2 and between the summer beams, 30 inches in bay #1 and bay #3 and 36 inches in the bents. This allows the three brace mortises to be at different locations on the post. If two or all three braces were the same size, two or three mortises would be at the same point on the post on two or three sides, dramatically weakening the post.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Vm7GvqqmoC43d54wZs_UPRVlX0Ptmic1sbNpk30oXSSFFr1CA6BlJwGPaC2Zihyphenhyphen4MlG-KrYjw1WXmwrEfZ4oKfmat3isBs1-iPHStULY9vqGyy4bvyvh_9_wFZHWiEEJ2dqZ8IAN9QfO/s1600/P7120228.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Vm7GvqqmoC43d54wZs_UPRVlX0Ptmic1sbNpk30oXSSFFr1CA6BlJwGPaC2Zihyphenhyphen4MlG-KrYjw1WXmwrEfZ4oKfmat3isBs1-iPHStULY9vqGyy4bvyvh_9_wFZHWiEEJ2dqZ8IAN9QfO/s200/P7120228.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I pegged the spline to the 6x10-inch bay beams in the extension sections when they were raised, again leaving the other end of the splines sticking out to receive the eight beams that connect to the four corner posts that were raised later. Since I pegged the braces in the extension section, the two posts were locked in place by the braces. Then, when I raised the corners, I wrapped straps around the corner post and the two extension posts and pulled the corner post inward creating a tight fit of the beams attached to the corner post and resting on the un-pegged splines. Once the two beams were tight between the two extension posts and the corner post, I pegged the beam tenons in the corner post. Then the two splines extending from the extension posts were pegged to the two beams. Pegging the four braces in place locked the entire assembly together.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnzkEb104f4FdHoNunfMxApg4QXPAdqxz5G3oMF0eWg1yIlW2vLx9wHee_rK69K3uaUgxXe644EMFFaVbR2SS_aYdbctKe4sUiUZDo9hEeUj_ffCh9jomc-uf8apQzssbAiLrhQ52shOz/s1600/Two-way+intersection+views.bmp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnzkEb104f4FdHoNunfMxApg4QXPAdqxz5G3oMF0eWg1yIlW2vLx9wHee_rK69K3uaUgxXe644EMFFaVbR2SS_aYdbctKe4sUiUZDo9hEeUj_ffCh9jomc-uf8apQzssbAiLrhQ52shOz/s200/Two-way+intersection+views.bmp" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The four two-way intersections at the corners of the frame do not use a spline. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The 8x10-inch bent beam that meets the 8x8-inch corner post is pegged just as the bent beams are for the three-way intersection. The 6x10-inch bay beam, instead of being splined, is also pegged to the post. The bay beam mortise must also be pegged to the post from the outside of the frame. Since this peg will hit the housing of the bent beam if driven in too far, I cut it to the right length before I pounded it in. The lower peg for the bay beam brace must also be driven in from the outside of the frame since its position is very close to the side of the bent beam brace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">As time has passed, to the average person, all three kinds of oak timbers all look the same golden brown. To me, after having examined each timber for its suitability for a particular frame member, moved it from the storage pile to the sawhorses to the raising site and then lifted it into place, planed, sanded and carved joinery into it, I know each timber intimately. To me, each timber is a unique oak tree that I know very well and am proud to have as a part of my home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">My third video documents the raising of the south extension from the central stairwell box to the outside of the frame on September 27, 1997. At this point, the north extension has already been raised. These two extensions form the first floor portion of bent #2 and bent #3. The two other extensions, running east and west, completing the central “plus” of the first floor framing are actually two of the connecting girts of bay #1 and bay #3. Once the four extensions from the center stairwell box are complete, what remains to complete the framing of the first floor is the raising of the four corner posts and the beams that connect the corner posts to the central extensions that in turn connect to the center stairwell box. The eastern half of the first floor framing will also have joists to support the loft flooring. My fourth video documents the raising of the northeast corner post.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoZUFfNwnQjYbVMsz8oj5yeDdo-lFse32gGf83ldLWoK-Nl2unR54hDqpv1fOSM4kXPUFxX959R6205RsYHawAkYmnhUPFZUdhpNLAETW8I1ctK7SDuUtvKMP1eo9D-gJav0n_DoN9FoPm/s1600/Plus+done+-+Uncovered+north.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoZUFfNwnQjYbVMsz8oj5yeDdo-lFse32gGf83ldLWoK-Nl2unR54hDqpv1fOSM4kXPUFxX959R6205RsYHawAkYmnhUPFZUdhpNLAETW8I1ctK7SDuUtvKMP1eo9D-gJav0n_DoN9FoPm/s320/Plus+done+-+Uncovered+north.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This is not the traditional way to raise a timber-framed structure. Traditionally, a timber-framed structure is raised in assembled bent units. Once a pair or bents are raised, they are connected with girts, joists and purlins. This method requires the raising of extremely heavy bent units and typically is done with a crane or many people. The use of the non-traditional spline connections, and raising one beam at a time allowed me to raise the frame without a huge crane or a large group of people to help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">To raise the extensions from the central box, I first raised the two outside posts with their splined crossbeam and braces strapped together. Once this assembly was standing, one of the two connecting beams was raised along with its two braces, followed by the other beam and its braces. I then strapped the outside posts together across the entire width of the frame and pulled them tightly together with come-alongs. After checking to make sure the entire bent #2 and bent #3 assembly was square and the outside posts were plumb, all of the joists were pegged. The same procedure was then repeated for the east and west extensions. As far as the first floor framing is concerned, the east and west extensions form bents that are perpendicular and identical to bent #2 and bent #3. In fact, all four corners are also identical to each other. Obviously, I am a big fan of symmetry.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfkvcNJyP2o46HzHfNOS4l9iP4KnMa2-H2xODvIzQ9l8YQqVRvOmRRR7kR7rbvu6YZlLwmgxi8oegp5Io5RlP0rsw-hucPIO9MU_yzVYZBSdS4MxmKTYvmVTYoDOkd9mzWd_6Ffy7DCWO/s1600/Plus+done+-+South+top+view.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFfkvcNJyP2o46HzHfNOS4l9iP4KnMa2-H2xODvIzQ9l8YQqVRvOmRRR7kR7rbvu6YZlLwmgxi8oegp5Io5RlP0rsw-hucPIO9MU_yzVYZBSdS4MxmKTYvmVTYoDOkd9mzWd_6Ffy7DCWO/s320/Plus+done+-+South+top+view.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">After the experience of raising the stairwell box and the crane’s lift being barely adequate on top of 2-inch thick boards, I developed a new runner scheme. I decided that the stack of 16-foot long 6x8s that would someday become roof purlins would be useful. Laid on their sides, they were just as wide as the boards that I was using. Using the stickers that were under the timbers on the flatbed truck for cross supports, these purlins formed runners that raised the crane height about nine inches above the deck. Using four of these purlins, two for each set of wheels on the crane, the rails were wide enough (16 inches) that I could roll the crane forward without having to allow for the wider separation of the front wheels. They were also long enough that I could extend them over the side of the deck the three feet that I needed to hold the front wheels when the crane was raised to its highest position. The down side of this plan was the work involved. Each of these beams weighed over 250 pounds. Despite the effort it took to move these purlins to each raising site, get them positioned just right and getting the crane mounted on top of them, they solved all of my lifting problems. This method worked so well that I was willing to continue using the same four purlins as my crane runners all the way up to installing the peak purlins and king posts.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Chapter 11 – First Floor Framing</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Phase I</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">While trying to reconstruct the process of building this house, I have been relying on my photo albums and the memories sparked by those old photographs. The “1996 – 1997” album begins with photos of the first flatbed trailer loaded with timbers for the decking. All of the photos of the deck construction process, which was completed on August 1st of 1996, came from this album. When I got to the end of this album I found a few photos of the cutting of the central “plus” in Linda’s garage in the winter of 1996. The next photos of the house are winter 1997 photos of the already assembled central “plus” of the first floor. I realized that I had no photos of the central “plus” construction process. In fact, the second flatbed trailer, loaded in September of 1997, must have been so “ho-hum” that there are no photos of that either. Much to my dismay, I realized that in September of 1997, I had decided to start documenting the building process on videotape and had no photographs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Fortunately, modern technology has a solution to this dilemma. A video card installed in this computer allows me to watch these videos and create images of the tape with a click of the mouse. The down side is that the photographic quality is worse than a camera. However, the audio part of the tapes is very enlightening. On the tapes, I was explaining what I was doing at the time and sending the finished tape to Linda in Pennsylvania. Watching these tapes is a lot like watching paint dry. I often put the video recorder on a pile of timbers, aimed it at the project, and went to work. Without a catastrophe to add excitement, the process of raising timbers is very slow, tedious and boring to watch. I did do some step-by-step filming that cuts out the tedium and adds explanations for the photos. These tapes made me realize how much my memory had forgotten! I also realized how much I learned in the building process. This was definitely a learn-as-you-go project. During one of my taping sessions, I filmed the raising of a beam and two braces that connected to the central box and one of the outside wall sections. With a flamboyant, “tah-dah” I proclaimed the process a success and picked up the camera to do some close-ups. Much to my horror, I realized that I had installed one of the braces backwards. While reviewing this tape, six years later, I heard myself say, “I guess I should tape my “fubars” as well as my “tah-dahs”. Reviewing these tapes was informative and entertaining. I often found myself mumbling, “what are ya doin’, ya dope?” Another problem with this taping scheme is that either the battery died or the tape ended before I got to a “tah-dah”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">My video taping of the construction process begins with my using the covered front half of the basement outside of the apartment walls as a workshop. I set this area up similarly to the work area in Linda’s garage, minus the wood stove. It was really nice to be able to go from my nice warm apartment to the workshop and back again with ease.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This time, I had unloaded the truckload of timbers with a little better foresight, putting the various timber bundles closer to where they would be needed. The small parts such as braces and splines got stored under cover in the workshop, the finished parts and timbers that I would not need for a while were stacked on either side of the deck and the timbers that I needed to work on yet to create the central “plus” of the frame were piled in the driveway outside of the workshop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Once I got daily life organized in the apartment, I spent every available daylight hour working on assembling the frame. The first thing I needed to do was invent a way to get materials from the workshop up to the deck.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">My first gin pole, used to support the sill beams across the daylight opening of the basement, is featured at the beginning of the first tape. I used this gin pole to lift timbers from the daylight basement workshop to the first floor construction site on the top of the deck. This method was an alternative to tedious process of wheeling timbers on the cart up the driveway hill. As it turned out, the gin pole and pulley system was fine for timbers less than 16-feet long. The 16-foot timbers, weighed 500 pounds or more, and were more than I could lift, even with my pulley. I was persistent though. Attaching the pulley line to the truck and driving down the driveway did pull the timber from the basement to the deck. Unfortunately, by the time the timber was near the top of the pulley, I was in the truck about 100 feet away trying to see what was happening in the rear view mirror. I quickly decided that this was a bad plan and went back to the cart method for the big timbers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> Before I could begin raising the pre-cut central stairwell assembly, I needed to establish the landing for the stairway from the first floor to the loft. Since the distance from the finished floor of the first floor to the finished floor of the loft was the same as the basement stairway dimensions, the support beam heights from the bottom of the posts were the same as the basement stairwell landing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I really had fun with the movie making idea. Other than an occasional visit from Carl, one of the ranch residents who checked to see if I was still alive from time to time, I seldom saw anyone. The camera became someone to talk to! So, I perched the camera on a beam and turned it on and off between noisy sawing and drilling steps and described what I was doing. Perhaps I’m a frustrated teacher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Once the stairwell posts had their landing beam mortises cut and the 4-foot long 6x8 landing beams had been cut out, I used the gin pole to haul them up to the deck surface for raising. To facilitate moving these posts around, I created what I called “railroads”. Along the outside edge of the workshop, I piled some 16-foot long beams on blocks that reached from the sawhorses to the gin pole. This allowed me to pivot the posts off the sawhorses onto the railroad. Instead of sliding the posts on these beams, I put short pieces of leftover PVC piping under the posts to serve as post wheels. With three pieces of pipe, I could always have two rollers under the post and move the back roller to the front end and continue rolling the post as far as I needed it to go. Up on the deck, I used long 2x4s laid on the deck as the railroad, beginning at the gin pole and leading to the raising site. I also kept another set of three piping pieces up on the deck for rollers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Controlling the post during the process of raising it with the gin pole required at least one rope attached to the end of the post. I tied each end of a 1/4-inch hemp rope to each end of the post so that I could control either end if necessary. With practice, I only needed one end of the rope to get the job done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Once all of the parts had been cut and delivered to the deck, I could reassemble them as I had done in Linda’s garage. My method for marking timbers was based upon their bay number and their facing direction. The bay number was chiseled in roman numerals (roman numerals are easy to create with a straight edged chisel) in the bottoms of the posts. Inscribed in the beam housings were the directions (N, S, E or W) that the housing should be facing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Before any post could be raised, its base hole in the decking had to be excavated. Measuring from each edge of the deck I could determine about where the post should stand. Cutting through the rolled roofing and the tar paper I easily found the central peg and its redwood 8-inch square block imbedded in the decking. After cutting the roofing a bit larger than the edges the redwood block, a few whacks of a chisel with the grain of the redwood split these blocks and after the pieces were removed, my neat 8-inch square post hole was revealed. I cut the roofing larger than the post hole to avoid marring the post with tar. Once the post was installed, I used urethane foam to seal the crack between the post and the decking edges. The foam created a waterproof seal by expanding up the side of the post and sideways over the edges of the roofing. Once the foam was dry, I beveled the edges so water running down the post would be deflected onto the roofing. Several years later, when the frame was dried in, this foam was easily scraped and sanded off the post and out of the cracks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I began the assembly of the central stairwell frame at the landing corner (northwest) because the landing beams would help to hold the posts upright and straight. To begin, I laid the center post and the north center post on 2x4s and inserted the landing beam in its mortises, strapping the unit together with a 2-inch orange ratchet strap. I then positioned the engine crane perpendicular to the assembly and raised the crane arm. This didn’t go quite as easily as it had when I had done the same thing for the “H” assemblies of the basement daylight wall. Unlike the “H’s” in the basement, which had a crossbeam above the center height of the posts, the landing beam was about in the center of the beam height. Therefore lifting the assembly simply raised the unit rather than pivoting it at the bottom of the posts. I solved this problem by sliding the crane backward until the post bottoms caught on the pegs in the deck and kept the backward tension until the unit was past halfway raised. Nudging the posts backwards settled the holes in the bottoms of the post onto their pegs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Here are examples of watching the video of myself and asking me what I am doing. The brace peg holes for the above posts were pre-drilled. The crane should have been attached to a line running through those peg holes. Below, I raised the next post with its landing beam in place as a “counterweight”. Yes, it was indeed a counterweight, but standing the post up, and holding it up with the crane while installing the landing beam would probably have been easier.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The above sequence of events from the first video occurred over the course of five days. The next tape begins with the four landing posts and beams already assembled. What was skipped was the raising of the fourth corner post and the installation of the other two landing beams. By the end of the second tape, four days later, the rest of the central stairwell box is completely assembled.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The next parts to be raised are the two 8-foot long beams connecting the tops of the standing posts and extending to the other corners of the stairwell box. With these two beams in place, the raising of the corner posts under the ends of the two beams is simply a matter of standing the posts up in their correct position and putting the braces in place at the same time. Once the beam and its braces were in place on top of their posts, the splines could be inserted in their slots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">By now, I was beginning to realize the raising height limitations of my engine hoist. Even with a block under the beam to take up some of the strap length, making the crane hook as close as possible to the top of the beam, the crane could not quite raise a 10-inch thick beam to the top of an 8-foot tall post. The distance from the bottom of the wheels to the bottom of the hook is about 8 feet, 8 inches. Even with the hook as close to the beam top as possible, raising a 10-inch beam to the top of an 8-foot post left the crane lift about two inches short. I compensated for this 2-inch shortage by mounting the crane on 2-inch thick boards to serve as wheel runners. These runners not only allowed the wheels to roll more easily than they did on the roofing, but they also kept the wheels from damaging the roofing. The down side to this plan is that it is hard to keep the wheels on the runners unless the runners are very wide. Since my widest runner boards were about 8 inches wide, I was constantly fighting with the crane wheels and runner positions to keep the crane on the runners and the beam in the air heading where it needed to go. Complicating this plan some more is the fact that the front wheels are wider apart than the rear wheels. This meant that the runners had to be set up in a V shape and if the crane had to move too far along the runners, the separation of the back and the front of the V had to be adjusted as the crane moved forward. I soon learned to position the crane, the runner boards and the beam that it was lifting as close to where they needed to be as possible before I started the lifting process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Another quirk to an engine crane that needed to be dealt with is that as the crane arm raises, the tip of the hook arcs backward. So, if you start raising a beam directly under where it needs to go, by the time it is 8 feet high it is almost 2 feet farther back from where it started. This means that, in most cases, the crane will need to be moved forward at least 2 feet as the lifting progresses. Adding a safety factor to keep the beam from hitting the existing assembly, the crane actually needs to be able to move forward about 3 feet from the start of the lifting process to where the beam on the hook is in its final position.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">A third crane lifting setup-up problem is the positioning of the strap that the hook grabs. Ideally, the strap is positioned at the beams center of gravity. That way, as you raise the beam, it stays level. This central strap positioning is not always possible. In the case of the two beams that I now needed to raise, there is a post mortise in the center of the beam. Wrapping the strap around the center of the beam to raise it level would make it impossible for the center beam mortise to fit into the tenon at the top of its post because the strap would cover the mortise. To solve this problem, I positioned the strap on the side of the beam mortise and strapped blocks of wood to the top end beam to serve as counter weights to keep the beam level as it is raised. Initialy, I used a bar clamp to hold the blocks on the top of the beam. If this bar clamp is bumped, it tends to come loose and fall off. A better method is to strap the blocks to the top of the beam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Another lifting problem is the ability to control the two ends of the beam as it is being raised from my cranking position at the back of the crane. The beam tends to start swinging back and forth, especially if I get too energetic and crank the beam up too quickly. Invariably, the wind also wants to participate in moving the suspended beam, usually rotating it out of parallel with my plan. Therefore, I always attach a rope to each end of the beam, leading back to my cranking position, so that I have some control over the suspended beams movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This all probably sounds like a lot of trouble to raise a beam. Since I was committed to my engine hoist, raise one-beam-at-a-time plan, these are all just problems to solve that are part of the process. Solving these problems at deck level turned out to be very important. It was still pretty scary raising the peak purlins with the crane standing on scaffolding attached to the frame, 16 feet in the air, in a hefty breeze, but at least by then I had lots of practice and knew what to do and what was going to happen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The next parts to be raised are the two 8-foot beams connecting the tops of the standing posts and extending to the other corners of the stairwell box. With these two beams in place, the raising of the corner posts under the ends of the two beams is simply a matter of standing the posts up in their correct position and putting the braces in place at the same time. Once the beam and its braces were in place on top of their posts, the splines could be inserted in their slots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The first thing to do was move the beam from the finished timber pile next to the deck to its raising position. Two boards lying on the deck, starting at the timber pile and leading to the raising site served as railroad tracks. With a PVC roller waiting at the end of the railroad track, I slid the beam from the pile onto the roller. Sliding the back end of the beam on the pile supports, and rolling the front end forward down the tracks, the beam rolled onto the waiting next roller. Moving the rear roller to the front as the beam rolled along brought the beam to its raising position. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">With the crane on its runners, slightly to the left of the center post, I slid the beam onto blocks to position it above the level of the crane legs. Next, the strap is wrapped around the beam, also slightly to the left of its center. With a few blocks piled on the left end of the beam to serve as counterweights, the beam was ready to be lifted into position. Beyond the ease of rolling the beam into position, the railroad tracks and rollers being off the roofing kept the rollers from picking up the grit of the roofing and smashing it into the beam surface. Since the PVC rollers are very slippery, rotating the beam on the roller was almost too easy and the beam had a tendency to slide off the roller onto the roofing. I found it best to transfer the beam to a block under the center of the beam before I tried to rotate it. With a few more blocks around the crane legs, I could slide the beam off the rollers and onto the blocks over the crane legs and into position.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I also liked to have the mortise peg holes pre-drilled. When it was time to install the pegs, the pre-drilled holes provided a good guide for the drill bit and the only wood that needed to be drilled out was the hole in the tenons. These holes also came in handy as places to firmly attach ropes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The next timber to put in place was the northeast post. Since this post did not have to make a trip to the basement to have a landing beam mortise installed, it was sitting in the finished timber pile next to the deck. The post was rolled on the railroad to its raising position just as the previous beam had. Before the post could be raised, the hole in the deck had to be cleaned out and a corresponding hole in the bottom of the post drilled. Using ratchet straps to hold the two braces in position, I put the end of the post into its hole in the deck and lifted it the hard way. With a little wiggling, I got the brace tenon to go into its mortise in the post as the post went into position.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This was a crucial moment for the future logistics of this project. I discovered that the housing at the top of the post would not slide into the housing at the end of the beam. Two nasty things had happened to the joints since they were made and fit perfectly in Pennsylvania. The top of the beam had split a bit making the beam housing wider and the top of the post had shrunk making the post housing narrower. This not only prevented the housing from fitting together, but it misaligned the slot for the spline. Making joinery in Pennsylvania and assembling it in Colorado became a really bad idea.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">What I had to do was lower the post back down to the deck and fix the joinery. I shaved the spline mortise in the top of the post back to its 1 1/2-inch width. Then, on the ladder, I shaved the beam housing back to fit the width of the post housing. Then I shaved the spline slot in the beam to align with the slot in the top of the post. This was not the last time that I had to adjust the pre-cut joinery, but it was the last time that I failed check the joinery fit before I raised the timbers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The raising of the other two sides of the stairwell framing was accomplished just as the first two sides were done. After I made sure that the framework was square, I made and installed two short beams to connect the center post top to the east and south cross beams. These two beams, besides connecting the top of the center post to something, outlined the ceiling for the top of the basement stairwell that is also the floor of the loft in the corner of the loft staircase. When I was certain that the entire structure was square, I drilled out the holes in the tenons and pounded in pegs and slid the eight splines in the corners into place. Since the splines actually float within the post, I did not peg these splines until the adjoining beams were in place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">With this central stairwell box completed, the first phase of the first floor framing was complete. The next phase was to connect the central box to the outside wall framing with beams extending from the corner posts to posts at the outside of the frame. At this point, what was holding the center box together was actually the array of 2-foot braces since the tops of the posts were simply butted together and kept aligned with the splines. Bent #2 and bent #3 are formed with the addition of the beams running to the outside posts and the bents tied together by pegging these beams to the center beams with the spline that passes through the corner posts of the center box. The splines are cut 1/4-inch shorter than the long mortises that receive them. Once the bent is assembled and pulled tightly together, the spline can be centered in the long mortise and pegged to each bent beam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Since it was obvious by now that this project was going to take considerably longer that we had initially anticipated, we decided to make the daylight basement into a comfortable living space while I finished the rest of the project; after all, it already had a toilet! After living in an 8 by 12-foot shed, the 800 square foot living area of half of the basement looked huge. To weatherproof the basement we covered the deck framing with 2x6 tongue and groove pine boards. A layer of tar paper and then rolled roofing nailed to the deck surface made a temporary weatherproof flat basement roof. Considering the torture that this roof had to endure in the coming years before the frame got “dried-in”, it served its purpose remarkably well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I learned my first lesson in buying materials locally when I ordered 140 16-foot long 2x6-inch tongue and groove pine boards for the decking. It would be two weeks before these boards could be delivered. I had already become used to having all the materials that I needed readily at hand. So, for the next two weeks, using the materials at hand, I started the basement apartment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">With the main water line already installed, a toilet prominently perched it the middle of the living space and all the stubbed out piping for a sink, tub, floor drain and vent stack, it seemed logical to build a bathroom and finish the rest of the plumbing. The first error that I realized that I had made was having the main water line enter the basement through the back of the foundation in the east wall. This placed this important feature behind the tub wall. It would have been much better if it had entered the basement through the south wall at the east end where I had planned for a small utility room. I wanted to keep the plumbing as minimal as possible to save on plumbing costs as well as having short hot water pipes from the water heater to the spigots. Since the main floor kitchen and bathroom were initially designed to be next to each other in the southeast corner of the house, the water heater, main water line and basement bathroom were all placed under these water-using rooms in the southeast corner of the basement. The 6x8-foot utility room is just big enough to house a water heater and any other plumbing devices that might become necessary such as a pressure pump and tank or water filters. Linda hadn’t decided whether she wanted laundry facilities upstairs or in the basement so I decided to plan for them in the basement outside of the utility room and if she wanted them upstairs, I would plumb them into the basement plumbing when I got there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I didn’t actually design the basement bathroom; the plumber did that based upon where I told him that I wanted the vent stack to be and where the septic tank, by code, needed to be located. The open area south of the foundation made a good drain field site, so the septic tank went between this field and next to the house foundation. The main house drain then had to lead from the septic tank to the vent stack. The bathroom was designed so the toilet drain would be within the code dictated distance from the main vent stack. In other words, the drain field, septic tank, main house drain and basement bathroom arrangement was all decided by the plumber and the plumbing code based upon where I planned to put the vent stack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Deciding where to put the vent stack was one of my major house design problems. Hiding this pipe, as is customary in a stick built house, inside walls would not work well. I think that aesthetically, walls within a timber-framed house should conform to the major framing timbers. Therefore, pipes within these walls leading to the roof, would need to pass right through at least one major timber. I considered drilling 4-inch holes through major structural timbers for the vent pipe to be a bad plan. Like a pathway through the frame for a chimney, the frame was designed to provide an open pathway from the basement main drain to the roof. I decided to sacrifice a corner of the kitchen as the pathway for the vent stack from the basement to the first floor. Above this space was an open loft. We considered putting a bathroom in the loft above the kitchen to provide a place to hide the rest of the vent stack without going through any frame timbers. However, three bathrooms, one each level, seemed more than the two of us really needed. So I decided to put a jog in the vent stack in the corner of the kitchen and run the rest of the pipe in the east exterior wall to the roof. This jog had to be somewhere if it was not going to run through the middle of the loft space or a timber since the main drainpipe is within the basement walls and the house exterior walls are on the outside of the foundation wall. The only other solution that I could think of was building some sort of box around the pipe in the loft that would have looked like a box to hide a vent stack. Linda thought that we could paint it brown and add some branches and leaves to it so it looked like a tree. I didn’t think so. For the moment, since there was not going to be a frame or walls above the basement for some time, the vent stack simply ran straight up through the decking and terminated in the corner of the kitchen. Having some leftover redwood for wall base plates and many oak 2x6s, I got some PVC piping and fittings and framed out the space defined by the drain and vent piping that the plumber had installed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">In the middle of the plumbing project, the excavation guys returned to backfill the foundation and complete the loop driveway around the backside of the house.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">With the bathroom plumbing and walls roughed in, I next installed the 200-amp service box in the basement directly below the electric meter stand. The 2/0 wire aluminum wire needed for this connection runs through the gray conduit at the top of the service box, through a 1-inch hole in the sill beam, and into the same kind of conduit to the base of the meter stand and into the meter box. Nine other wires also run up the wall and are routed through two holes in the sill beam, ready to enter the sill chase that would soon wrap around the outside of the sill beams. Two of these wires are #6 wires that serve two ETS (Electric Thermal Storage) heaters on the daylight basement exterior wall. Another is a #10 wire that leads to the sub-panel that would eventually be installed on the east exterior wall of the main floor bedroom. This sub-panel will provide the circuits for the main floor and the loft. Four other wires serve the baseboard heating system on the main floor. The other two wires serve dedicated electronic equipment circuits. The three holes in the sill beam are sealed with foam insulation. The rest of the wires that serve the basement circuits are routed around the inside of the basement on the 1-inch wide ledge that was created on the inside of the foundation by the redwood sill plates.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhluUl4nfJjyDWTaEKOsrKpX_exQ6is8FI9T-rNpq6JKbN1YKmFiPcUoVW12qmn3YWk5BrulFgg_6PkVegr7o-ESPV_QuJG_Q4WpjcM_3BEloYPBy9DQUYKVBRyArphnMnvl_FjtqyRMAL/s1600/Sill+Chase+%25232+8-96.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhluUl4nfJjyDWTaEKOsrKpX_exQ6is8FI9T-rNpq6JKbN1YKmFiPcUoVW12qmn3YWk5BrulFgg_6PkVegr7o-ESPV_QuJG_Q4WpjcM_3BEloYPBy9DQUYKVBRyArphnMnvl_FjtqyRMAL/s320/Sill+Chase+%25232+8-96.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The day after the driveway was completed the decking boards were delivered and dumped behind the deck on the new driveway. It was time to drop the plumbing and electrical projects in the basement and start building the main floor deck that would also be the basement roof. Since the decking needed to extend beyond the frame to support the exterior walls, I needed to build the exterior sill chase framing first. My dad, wanting to participate in this grand project, volunteered to build the sill chase while I installed the decking. He arrived on August 15</span><span lang="en-US" style="vertical-align: super;">th</span><span lang="en-US"> with his radial arm saw to cut 2x4s for the sill chase and his lathe to make 1 3/8-inch diameter oak pegs. We began the decking project the next day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The sill chase is the same height as the 10-inch sill beams, an upper and lower 2x4 connected with alternating stubs on the inside and outside edges. The inside stub is nailed to the sill beam and the outside stub provides nailers for the boards that will cover the chase. This arrangement left plenty of room for wires to run inside of the chase framework.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The edge of the 2x6-inch tongue and groove pine decking is nailed even with the outside edges of the sill chase. While installing the decking, I left 8x8-inch holes for the sites of the future frame posts to sit directly on the sill beams and the steel straps that would bolt to the outsides of the frame posts. In the center of these square holes I drilled 1 3/8-inch diameter holes completely through the sill beams. I then pounded in the 1-foot long, 1 3/8-inch diameter oak pegs that my dad had made on his lathe. I cut these pegs off even with the decking so that they not only joined the sill beam joinery but would also serve as pegs for the bottom of the frame posts. These post bottom pegs may not have been necessary since the 1 1/2-inch thick decking would surround the bottom end of the posts but since I was pegging the sill beam joinery with them anyway, it seemed like a good idea. The only significance to the 1 3/8-inch diameter peg size is that I wanted to use something larger than a 1-inch peg and the auger bit that I use for drilling 1 1/2-inch mortises is 1 3/8-inches in diameter. These square post-holes, precisely located where the posts needed to stand adjacent to the protruding 26-inch long steel straps, were filled with a redwood block with a peg hole in the middle. These redwood blocks filled the hole and were easily split apart when they needed to be removed to install the frame posts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I surface nailed each deck board with two nails into each joist starting from the outside edges and working toward the middle. This scheme allowed me to use the outside edge of the decking to clamp the deck boards in place to keep them tight. I could have used cleats to do this but I didn’t want to put any more nail holes in the floor than necessary. This idea was really silly considering that the next step was to nail tar paper and rolled roofing onto the deck, but again, it seemed like a good idea at the time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">After the decking was nailed in place and the wires were installed all the way around the frame, I covered the chase with pine boards. I eventually replaced these pine boards with redwood boards because I eventually trimmed the house with redwood. I also installed 1-inch foam boards inside the chase at the corners and at each scarf joint to help seal any future cracks that might eventually appear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Once the decking was finished, I went back to my basement apartment project. I was running out of time, Linda was due to arrive in six days and I wanted to have enough done to inspire her confidence! She tells me now that she has never had any doubts or lack of confidence, so perhaps I simply needed to convince myself that this grand plan was going to work! Still stuck on the garage idea for the daylight basement openings, I walled off the back half of the basement, installed a door in the stairwell opening, and put a big window in each of the two walls. The rest of the plan included an interior wall to create a bedroom space directly under where the first floor bedroom would be, a small living room with an ETS heater along the back wall under the future bathroom, a sink and tub in the bathroom, a water heater in the utility room, and a sink and counter top in the kitchen area. Linda was convinced that with the addition of a stove and a refrigerator, we could move into our apartment! In January of 1999, a bit more than two years later that is exactly what we did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">We spent the next few days walling off the stairwell and dreaming of our apartment to be. It didn’t take long for visions of a kitchen and some furniture to start dancing in her head. After covering the daylight basement exterior wall, Linda and I heading back to Pennsylvania on September 25, 1996.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I spent the winter of 1996-1997 in Linda’s uninsulated garage cutting the timbers for the central stairwell of the first floor framing. I also did a little more consulting for my old employer and helped Ed a few times. I set up the space in the garage to replicate Ed’s shop, complete with a huge wood stove to burn scarps and keep warm. Keith had provided enough raw timbers to work with that I kept in a big pile in the driveway covered with tarps. Using Fred’s cart, I wheeled a collection of appropriate timbers into the garage to thaw out and whittled the joinery for the stairwell sides. This way, I was able to assemble small sections of the stairwell and verify my plan and the fit of the joints. When a side was done, I stacked the parts against the wall and started the next side</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">By April of 1997, the stairwell part of the first floor framing was finished, but Keith did not yet have the 16-foot long beams for the rest of the first floor framing ready to be delivered. Since the basement was sitting in Colorado waiting to be converted into an apartment, we decided that I would go work on the apartment for a few months while we waited for the rest of the timbers. I loaded up a U-Haul trailer with the furniture that we wanted to have in the apartment and some oak boards and tools and made another trip to Colorado.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">After removing the T1-11 covering that we had installed seven months ago, I inspected the condition of the sealed up basement. I realized that we had made a small error by not providing some sort of ventilation. Though nothing was overly wrong, it was obvious that it had gotten very humid in this closed basement space; the bright yellow oak joists were now a chocolate brown. Fortunately, we had not left anything inside that would have suffered from high humidity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The first thing to do was get an electrical system installed. After building a dividing wall for the bedroom, I installed the 220-volt lines for a water heater and an ETS heater and a breaker for the long heavy wire that powered the shed. Then I created the three GFI circuits that I needed for a kitchen and a bathroom, a separate circuit for outside outlets in the open front half of the daylight basement for power for woodworking tools, and the necessary outlets for the inside walls to pass an electrical inspection. Although the electrical inspector was a bit confused by our strange building plan, I did pass the final inspection for a finished living space in the basement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Next, I needed some plumbing. For the moment, all I was interested in was a functional bathroom and some hot water. I knew that Linda would want a functional kitchen sink as well, but a counter top and some complicated plumbing would be necessary so I decided to postpone that project for later. I also knew that a plumbing inspector would have a fit about my vent stack terminating a few inches over the top of the deck so I decided to forget about him for a while.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Finishing the basement also afforded the opportunity to try out some of the options that we could later use to finish the upstairs. Walls could be directly under beams or aligned at an edge of a beam or not be aligned with a beam at all. When walls are not aligned under a beam, the wall surface has to either stop at the bottom of a joist or wrap around the joist and continue to the ceiling. When walls stop at the bottom of the joists; a gap between each joist is left at the top of the wall, but pipes can then be in the wall and continue upward to the next floor level</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">When a wall follows a joist and passes under a beam, the top wall surface wraps around the larger beam. The top edge of the wall that turns the corner also needs to be kept at the height of the bottom of the joists. Running walls under joists leads to problems if the joists are not all exactly the same height. The problem gets worse as the joists age and begin to shrink and twist. When walls are aligned under the center of beams, the wall surface can now stop at the bottom edge of the beam all the way across the wall. The adjoining wall becomes an independent surface and the post becomes large corner molding. When a wall surface continues past the edge of a beam to the ceiling surface above, the joists on either side of the wall surface eventually shrink leaving cracks between the wall surface and the joists. Interior walls work best when they follow the major beams. The next best option is to follow joists. The worst choice is a wall that reaches the ceiling and must be fit in between joists and beams.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> Later in the basement-finishing project, I experimented with other finishing techniques. I tried different door and window molding styles and sizes, different styles and sizes of baseboards and molding at the tops of walls and around posts and beams. I eventually got to the building of bookcases and doors for the bathroom and bedroom, trying different techniques that might eventually be used upstairs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">In late June, Linda came to see our new apartment and we both took a well-deserved Fourth of July vacation to the San Jaun Mountains. Linda added many girl touches to my handy work that improved the homeyness of the apartment, and by the end of the month, we were back in Pennsylvania to organize another flatbed truckload of timbers to ship to Colorado. On September 6, 1997, the truck was loaded with the precut stairwell framing and the rest of the first floor timbers and I once again headed back to Colorado. This time I had a nice comfortable apartment to live in and a covered workshop in which to continue working on my masterpiece.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">With the redwood sill plates in place I could begin raising the deck framing. Thanks to a nice flat concrete floor, the center posts stood in their proper position all by themselves. I considered this a good start and a very good sign. My enthusiasm lasted until I picked up a sill beam with my trusty engine hoist, wheeled it to the concrete wall and discovered that the front supporting wheels crashed into the concrete wall well before the sill beam was anywhere near the top of the concrete wall. It was already time for plan “B”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Fred, my car mechanic in Pennsylvania, was very enthused by my project. He decided that I needed a cart to move timbers around. One day we went to the junkyard and bought the rear end of an old Dodge. After shortening the wheelbase to about two feet and welding the ends together, he crafted a 1-foot square steel plate and welded it to the axle between the two wheels. He reasoned that I could balance my timber on this plate and wheel them wherever I needed them to go. He was right, except that the plate was very near the ground and getting the timber between the wheels proved challenging. I eventually solved this dilemma by attaching an 8x10 block to the plate, which put the supporting surface at about the same height as the tops of the wheels. Balancing the timber on this extremely rocky axle proved impossible, but shifting the weight towards one end and picking up the other end was easy. Pushing the contraption led to another problem. The timber easily slid on the surface of my block and the other end promptly buried itself in the ground. A ratchet strap came to the rescue. Wrapping the strap around the plate, the block and the timber and cranking it good and tight solved the sliding problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Plan “B” involved wheeling the sill beam up the loop driveway to the back of the foundation and dropping it onto the foundation wall. The next problem was that I could not push or pull that 600-pound mass up the hill! This time a rope came to the rescue. I tied one end of a rope to the cart and the other end to my truck trailer hitch. I quickly realized that I would be dragging the end of my planed and sanded timber down the driveway and grind the end to a pulp. Another ratchet strap clamped a sacrificial board to the under side of the end of the timber and solved this problem. Now the only trick would be turning corners. Since the cart turned easily, it was just a matter of turning the timber at the corner in the proper direction and starting again. Since the cart has no brakes, I quickly learned that a long rope was a good idea and going downhill was a bad idea. Despite all these learning curve type troubles, this cart came in very handy for moving timbers throughout the project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Another Fred invention was a steel plate that bolted to the bottom framework of my engine hoist. To this plate was welded a 2-inch square steel shaft that fit into the receiver of my truck mounted trailer hitch. Though positioning the engine hoist at the proper height to slide into the receiver took some practice, once inserted, my truck became a wrecker. This invention eliminated the long support legs of the engine hoist. I could back the truck to the pile of timbers, put a strap around the timber, hook the other end of the strap to the hoist hook, crank the timber into the air and drive away with it. The problem with this, of course, is that the end of the timber wants to swing around and smack the truck. Two guy lines between the end of the timber and the truck solved this problem. Now I could back the truck into the daylight foundation and place the beams right on the foundation edges. I quickly learned however, that a 40 by 40-foot area is really small when trying to maneuver a truck turned wrecker. Beyond placing the edge sill beams, the wrecker would best be used outside of the foundation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The cart trick worked fine for the four sill beams accessible at ground level at the backside of the foundation. The two front sill beams were easily placed with the wrecker invention. With the sill beams in place at the edges of the foundation, I could begin to place the cross girts. The steel straps that were embedded into the concrete and protruded through slots in the redwood sill plates not only helped to keep the sill beams from falling off the outside of the foundation, but had been measured to define a perfect square. If all the beams fit within the straps then the structure would be square as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> By now, I realized that driving the truck around inside the foundation with a timber dangling from the end of the crane was a bad idea. The truck was just not capable of the fine maneuvering that would be needed to exactly place these girts. Besides, I definitely did not want to smack anything into my precious toilet that was perched right in the construction zone! The engine hoist on the nice flat concrete floor would work much better. However, placing half of the girt with the mortise and tenon at one end in the sill beam at the other end on a freestanding post was also a bad idea. What I needed was a temporary support for the inside end of the half girt while I engaged the end mortise and tenon in the sill beam. With the first half of the girt supported, I could then raise the other half of the girt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The solution to this temporary support problem presented itself upon the arrival of the wayward joist bundles. Although the idea that popped in my head was going to be a lot of work, it was the only solution that I could think of. I re-stacked the bundles of 6x8 joists into a square pile, log cabin style, until the pile was just below the height of the sill plate. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Leaving a space between the concrete wall and the joist pile and placing the joist pile near the center of the half girt allowed me to lift the half girt with the engine hoist and roll it between the joist pile and concrete wall. Lowering the half girt onto this support structure with a few board shims under it to raise its end slightly above the level of the center posts allowed me to slide the half girt tenon into the mortise in the sill beam. I then adjusted the board shims to make the girt approximately level. Next, in order to get the scarf joint end of the first half girt in the correct position, I hoisted the center cross beam into place. One cross beam tenon slid into its mortise in the sill beam scarf joint and the other tenon rested in the bottom half of the girt mortise in the center of the girt scarf joint. Now, I could raise the other end of the girt by sliding its sill beam tenon into the sill beam scarf joint mortise and the girder scarf joint engaged its other half and produced the top half of the crossbeam mortise and the finished girt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">With the three major beams connected and supported by the joist pile, I now needed three support posts that would hold this structure level. The modern way to insure levelness is with a laser level. This being a low-budget project, I used a more ancient and simple method. I had initially stretched a string from one sill beam, across the foundation to the opposite sill beam. This gave me a rough idea of how thick my board shims needed to be to make the girt level and a rough idea that the girt stretched straight across the basement. However, I quickly realized that forty feet of string sagged way too much and if I cut posts to the height of the string, I was going to make my girder sag, just like the string! To find the center post height that would make the girt level, I attached a long plastic tube full of water to the sill beam at one end of the girt and the other end of the tube to the girt where the center post under the scarf joint will rest. This device is known as a water level. With a bit of adjustment of the amount of water in the tube, I made sure that the top to the water level in the tube was even with the bottom of the sill beam. Measuring from the concrete floor to the water level in the tube at the center-post position gave the exact height of the center post (94 11/16 inches) that would make the girt level with the bottom of the sill beam. After cutting an 8x10 post to this length, I positioned the post under the scarf joint. With the engine crane, I lifted the first half of the girt enough to remove the board shims and lowered the girt onto the top of the center post. Then I moved the sill plate end of the water tube around the inside edges of the sill beams to be sure that the girt was really even with all of the sill beams. Being thrilled to find that the water level really did match the level of the sill beams all the way around the back half of the foundation, I confidently cut the other two posts to fit between the girt and the concrete floor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Before I could permanently install my three supporting posts, I needed to install a 6x8 cross beam for the stairway landing and the mortises for the two perpendicular landing beams. The plan called for the stairway to have thirteen steps and the landing to be seven steps above the concrete floor. I measured from the concrete floor to the top of the girt, and added the planned thickness of the 1 1/2-inch decking and 3/4-inch thick finished flooring. Dividing by thirteen and multiplying by seven gave me the height of the landing surface. Therefore, the landing beam was installed 1 1/2 inches below this level to account for the 1 1/2-inch thick landing boards that would rest on the landing beams.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> Contemplating the raising of the two girt halves presented another new problem. Each half would need to be raised above the H’s in order to fit the top tenons of the H assemblies into their mortises on the underside of the girts. This meant that the center end of the girt would need to be supported without the crane so I could use the crane to lift the H assemblies off of the floor and into position under the girt. By now I didn’t have enough joists left to make a tall enough log cabin style pile as a support. At this point, I constructed what was to be the most valuable tool in my arsenal of lifting devices, a gin pole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">My first gin pole was a 10-foot long 2x6 board with a large eye bolt installed near the top of the board. I then hung a block and tackle from this eye bolt. I soon learned that a gin pole has the disadvantage of not being self-supporting like the engine crane. I cut a notch on each side of the board slightly above the eye bolt to provide a slip-proof connection point for three 1/2-inch 50-foot long ropes. Tying two of these ropes to the already constructed deck frame, I could raise this pole by blocking the end from sliding and pulling on the third rope until the pole was upright.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> Now that I had an on site place to live, complete with running water, electricity and an outdoor flush toilet, I was finally ready to start my timber framing project. I left my four month long foundation project in Colorado on August 13</span><span lang="en-US" style="vertical-align: super;">th</span><span lang="en-US">, 1995 and returned to Pennsylvania. I found that Keith had all of the deck timbers except the joists cut and ready to be delivered to Linda’s yard. My old employer wanted some assistance with the project of converting my software masterpiece to a new operating system too. And, as I expected, Ed would be happy to have a free employee any time I felt like showing up. So, I spent the winter in Pennsylvania crafting deck timbers in Linda’s garage, solving software conversion problems and learning as much as I could from</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> Ed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Ed seemed very skeptical about my plan to use Linda’s garage as a timber-framing workshop. He even offered space in his shop so that I could use his tools! This idea, having seen the pile of timbers that I had to work with, seemed like a whole lot more work that necessary. Since I was committed to building the frame in Colorado, getting the tools that I needed to work in Linda’s garage seemed like the best idea. I purchased the basic woodworking tools: a 7 1/2-inch circular saw, a 3 1/2-inch planer, a 3 1/2-inch belt sander, a heavy-duty drill and 1 3/8-inch Forstner bit. I already had my 1 1/2-inch, 2-inch, corner chisels, mallet and whet stone and some basic measuring tools such as a tape measure, combination square, carpenters square, inside and outside calipers but needed a 4-foot straight edge. I also had two pipe clamps but found that two more would be very helpful. The 1-inch ratchet straps that I had were okay for small jobs but two 20-foot 2-inch ratchet straps were far better to hold entire bent assemblies together. Safety equipment such as safety glasses and hearing protectors seemed like a good idea. My antique crosscut saw had belonged to my grandfather, so I got a new one and a new ripsaw seemed like it would come in handy too. Being used to large circular saws from working in Ed’s shop, I got a 10-inch circular saw though I only used this monster when absolutely necessary. With all these heavy-duty electrical tools, a brand new 14/3 gauge, 50-foot extension cord was also a good idea. Although it didn’t seem necessary at the time, I also purchased an engine hoist, eight 6-foot and two 3-foot nylon straps and two heavy-duty come alongs. The come alongs would be necessary for the future raising. Although the engine hoist was only useful on the concrete floor of the garage it did save a lot of tedious timber </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> lifting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The goal and plan for the winter was to make a little money, do a little timber framing apprenticing and make the parts for the daylight basement decking. When the deck parts were all cut and ready for assembly, they would be loaded on a flatbed truck and hauled to the building site in Colorado. This part of the plan went very well. By May of 1996, the flatbed truck was loaded with everything I thought that I would need to assemble a timber-framed deck on the daylight basement foundation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The major part of the timber crafting was the 4 two-piece sill beams and the 2 two-piece center girts. The center spline joint joins the two ends of sill beams and center girts to create a long timber to span the 40 feet of the daylight basement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Before I started, I followed Ed’s advice and built a set of hefty sawhorses. This exercise actually serves two purposes. First, I could finally have a set of sawhorses that were short enough for me to comfortably use. For some reason, all of the timber framers that worked at Ed’s shop were giant guys who used sawhorses 36 inches tall. I was constantly standing on blocks of wood. My sawhorses are 28 inches tall, which puts an 8-inch thick timber at a comfortable working height for a 5-foot 9-inch fellow like me. Second, building timber-framed sawhorses is a good way to tune up your skills and tools without jeopardizing a rare and valuable timber.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Another one of Ed’s rules was “never put a timber on the ground”. Being a good little apprentice, I never violated this rule, but Ed never explained its purpose. I just assumed that this rule prevented damaging the timber somehow. As soon as I started trying to maneuver my 660-pound, 22-foot long 8x10s, the reason for this rule became obvious. Once a timber weighing hundreds of pounds was on the floor, getting it off of the floor becomes a nightmare. You need at least enough space under the timber to get a strap around it to pick it up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">In fact, the farther timbers are above the floor, the easier they are to move around. Because of my training in the science of physics, I knew the ultimate reason for this phenomena; it’s called gravity. The past several years dealing with extremely heavy objects that often need to be many feet over the ground, has given me a whole new respect for this force of nature. Not only is gravity reliably dependable, it acts instantly, without your permission. Having your fingers under a timber when gravity takes over is usually painful. It’s always a good idea to have something stronger than oak and thicker than your fingers readily available at all times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The basic tools that you get very good at using to combat gravity are the lever and fulcrum and locating the center of gravity of an object. The lever and fulcrum allow you to lift a very heavy object a short distance and placing a support under the center of gravity of that object magically makes it weightless. With these two intuitive principals and a lot of practice, no timber is too heavy to move, it just will not be moved very far, very quickly. If you are not familiar with the virtue of patience, the practice of timber framing will teach it to you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">It’s easy to take the power of cranes and winches for granted. At the push of a button, a 500-pound timber simply rises into the air. Working alone without these magical devices forces the discovery of the more fundamental principals behind these clever machines. Let’s say that you were silly enough to violate Ed’s rule, and you have a 500-pound timber lying on the floor, and that you need to get this timber up on your sawhorses. Start with a wedge shaped object and, beat it under the end of the timber. This raises the end of the timber to the thickness of the wedge. Now get a block about the size of the space that you have created (a fulcrum) and a long, strong stick (a lever). Put the end of the stick under the timber and slide the block on the floor, under the stick as far as it will go. Pushing down on the long free end of the stick will raise the timber end a bit higher than the block. Next, slide something under the timber about the size of the gap you just made. Repeating this process with progressively thicker fulcrums slowly raises the timber off of the floor. At some point you can get a support block under the center of the timber. If this block is at the “center of gravity” of the timber, the timber will balance on this block with both ends off the floor. If you place a similar sized block at either end of the timber and slide the timber over this end block, your 500-pound timber is now securely supported off of the floor. Repeating this process with progressively thicker fulcrums and support blocks will eventually raise the timber to the height of your sawhorses. One quickly learns to keep a supply of various sizes of wedges, support blocks, fulcrums and levers as part of your tool collection.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The next trick is to move the raised timber from the support blocks to the sawhorses. Experience teaches you to place your support blocks as close to the center of the timber as possible while still firmly supporting the weight. If the timber is not too heavy and your support blocks are near the center of gravity, the end of the timber is much lighter than the entire timber and can simply be lifted and pivoted onto one sawhorse. If your support blocks were carefully stacked and fairly stable, you can slide the timber on the surface of first sawhorse close to the center of gravity of the timber and easily pivot the other end onto the second sawhorse. What this all means is that the separation of the two sawhorses is critical. The ideal separation is just a bit more than half the length of the timber. That way the timber can be slid over one of the sawhorses while the other end is still supported. With practice and caution, it is even possible to spin a 500-pound timber all the way around while balanced on top of one sawhorse.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Once the timber is on the sawhorses, crafting joinery requires access to all four sides of the timber. This is where the value of good solid timber framed sawhorses becomes obvious. One can, with practice, roll a timber from one side to the next. Always roll that timber away from you. It may seem easier to roll it toward you, but if it slides unexpectedly, it can wind up in your lap!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Knowing the exact dimensions of my foundation, I started by making the two scarf jointed 40-foot long center girts. Each end of the two-piece center girts has an 8-inch long, 2-inch by 8-inch horizontal tenon. This tenon will fit a housed mortise in the side sill and be pegged. This peg will also serve as a peg for the bottom of the frame posts. The 2-foot long centered scarf joint has a centered horizontal housed mortise for the 8-inch long, 2-inch by 8-inch tenon of the center beam that extends to the front and back sill. This tenon is also pegged and this peg also serves as a peg for the bottom of a center frame post. I also put a vertical 2-inch by 5-inch mortise and tenon on the topside of one end of the scarf joint and on the bottom side of the other end of the scarf joint. These two tenons are pegged from the side of the girt, adding rigidity to the scarf joint. Centered between the center scarf joint and the end of the girt on the outside edge of each girt are two large housed dovetails for cross beams that extend to the front and back sills.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The two sills that run parallel to the girts and fit at the front and back of the deck frame are mirror images of the center girts, except that the two ends have a dovetailed tenon that fits a dove tailed mortise at the ends of the side sills at the corners, a tongue and fork joint. The two side sills are similar to the center girts, except that the through mortise in the center of the scarf joint is eliminated. This through mortise is instead placed 4 feet from the center of the scarf joint for the tenon at the end of the center girt.</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Chapter 7 - The Foundation</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">We purchased our land in Colorado in the spring of 1992. After two camping trips with friends and family, we had reconnoitered the land enough to flag the path for the driveway and the power line, find the perfect building site and mark the cistern location. While we were in the area, we located an excavation contractor who would bulldoze the driveway path and install the cistern. Our major accomplishment was the building of the perfect picnic table. My brother in law, Tim, did such a great job that we are still using this picnic table to this day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Anxious to check on the progress of our driveway and cistern, over the Christmas holiday in 1993, I drove from Pennsylvania with our tiny wood stove, my chainsaw, an old storm window, some leftover brown shingles and a plan to build a shed near the building site. By then I had realized that camping in a tent was no way to conduct the project of building a house. As if to underscore that notion, in the middle of shed wall construction, it began to snow. It snowed for an entire day. Fortunately, I had my tent, a tarp, a picnic table, a campfire and lots of scrub oak for firewood. Tying my tarp over the tent entrance and the picnic table and using the 2x4 scraps for sidewalls, I constructed a porch in front of my campfire and settled in to watch it snow and dream of my home to be. Unfortunately, in my excitement to build a shed, I had neglected to supply myself with adequate provisions to sit out a blizzard. I remember melting snow on the campfire for water and eating carrots and not being the least bit concerned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The next day, the sun came out and the snow began to melt. I was amazed by how dry the snow was and how quickly it evaporated. By noon, the dirt driveway had dried enough to get my Olds 98 down the mountain to town and get some food. The next day, belatedly well provisioned, the shed decking and walls were dry and within a few days I had a much more comfortable place to be. My 8 by 12-foot waterproof shed featured a twin-sized bed, a table for my propane stove, shelves for food and water, a window for a view and a wood stove for heat. This was a vast improvement over the tent, tarp, picnic table, and campfire arrangement! I returned to Pennsylvania with great expectations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I officially accepted early retirement from my engineering career in March of 1995. Leaving Pennsylvania on April 12</span><span lang="en-US" style="vertical-align: super;">th</span><span lang="en-US"> and arriving in Colorado on April 15</span><span lang="en-US" style="vertical-align: super;">th</span><span lang="en-US"> I found three inches of snow on the ground. The shed was cold so I insulated the wall cavities with one-inch blue board and gathered as much scrub oak firewood for the wood stove that I could find. Three days later it snowed seven more inches. This was not what I had in mind. My spirits were boosted by the arrival of the power company to install my transformer on the poles that were installed the previous summer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The prospect of electricity in my shed inspired me to go shopping for temporary power equipment. I spent the entire next day pounding a six-foot copper grounding-rod into the Rocky Mountains. By the next day, with a 100-foot extension cord strung through the trees, I was the proud owner of the worlds’ most expensive light bulb. Meanwhile, the weather turned beautiful and melted all the snow. Once the snow melted, there was mud everywhere prompting the installation of a stone shed doorway patio and sidewalk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Just as I was getting comfortable, my excavation contractor arrived. We had decided to hire a highly recommended old local guy name Butch to excavate our 45 by 45-foot daylight basement and install the waterline down to the building site. For the next few weeks, Butch, his son, his helper and his wife came every day prepared, not only to dig a monstrous hole, but also feed a small army. Little did I know that this excavators’ wife was a locally renowned campfire chef. As if my magic, not only did our daylight basement, waterline, two small runoff collection ponds and a circle driveway appear, but so did every contractor in the vicinity. It seems that campfire banquets were a major local event. This unexpected delight not only provided a terrific daily lunch, but the opportunity to meet every concrete contractor in the area. Lunches proved to be negotiation opportunities for the next phase of the project, the foundation. Even more exciting, the new water line featured a frost-free hydrant near the temporary power panel. I was in heaven! With 100 feet of water hose strung in the trees, my shed now had power and running water! Butch also scouted around the property and found a sand stone outcropping near the surface. He dug up this sandstone, spread it on the entire 1000 feet of driveway and crushed it with his dozer. Now I didn’t even need to worry about a muddy driveway and ten years later is still is in good shape.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Selecting an appropriate concrete foundation contractor was easier than I expected. One guys’ dog bit me, that scratched him. The second guy insisted that he needed a gigantically expensive concrete pumper truck imported from 100 miles away. I was later to learn that this might not have been a bad idea. The third guy couldn’t do anything without four walls. The fourth guy had the lowest price, asked lots of questions, looked at my plans, and guaranteed a perfectly square and level daylight basement foundation. The fourth guy, George, got the job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">One of the difficulties that I encountered in this rural area of Colorado was that no one had any experience with building a timber-framed structure. When I took my blueprints, complete with frame and detailed joinery drawings to Vince, the local building inspector, he told me that there were not any timber frames in the county, he had no experience in the building of a timber-framed structure, the building code had no provisions for building a timber framed structure and he hoped that I knew what I was doing! At one point, he suggested that I install rebar spikes in the concrete floor to hold the nine central posts in place. I told him that the plan was to put a foot thick concrete footer in the center of the foundation floor to support the weight of the 80,000 pounds of timbers that I planned for these posts to support. I really did not think that these posts were likely to move with the deck framing attached to them and 80,000 pounds of timbers stacked on top of them. He felt a lot better when I told him that I planned to put copper sheeting plates under the posts to protect them from being rotted by the concrete.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB63jvaPxu-z8yQWoOrsH6IUFwsnBDvsRyOunjHN9xrHJsEBkLil1lTJF_c2kZl7OX0R3uV0SWENWkRjosGDfrVK6rOdYcNK1DtxepMrvkf_9n3SCzXopxQWX0QoIC6OUmmxhg4blBLIFi/s1600/Wall+Pouring+6-95.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB63jvaPxu-z8yQWoOrsH6IUFwsnBDvsRyOunjHN9xrHJsEBkLil1lTJF_c2kZl7OX0R3uV0SWENWkRjosGDfrVK6rOdYcNK1DtxepMrvkf_9n3SCzXopxQWX0QoIC6OUmmxhg4blBLIFi/s200/Wall+Pouring+6-95.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="131" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I had similar problems with George. He had no problem with my perfectly square and level foundation requirement; in fact, he was insulted that I would expect anything less! He was however a bit baffled by my requirement for the foot thick 10x16-foot central foundation slab. When I told him that I wanted one inch steel straps embedded in the walls exactly at the positions of all of the frame posts, he was beside himself. He said that normally, houses use sill bolts on 16-inch centers around the foundation. I said that yes, I wanted those too! Being an amiable guy, he cooperated with these strange requests as long as I paid for the extra concrete and the fourteen 6-foot steel straps. George put his foot down when I mentioned that I wanted a keyway, a channel in the footer to lock the walls in place. Once he realized what I was talking about, he pointed out that this keyway of mine was useless. The 4-inch floor will keep the wall from moving inward, the backfill will keep the wall from moving outward, and the rebar that will extend from the footer to the top of the wall will tie the footer and wall together. I could not argue with that logic. Once I saw the finished footer with its 8-foot pieces of rebar sticking up out of the middle of it, I realized that the 2x4 </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">that would need to be embedded in the concrete footer to form a keyway would have to have holes in it for all of the vertical rebar. Once the 8 yards of concrete footer had set up, this 2x4 would then either have to be lifted out of the concrete to the tops of the rebar, or split down the middle to remove it before the wall was poured. Since it was too late for a keyway now anyway, I forgot all about it. George seems to have been right, I have not noticed that the walls have moved. One thing I did not specify was tamping the sand fill before pouring the floor. When the day to pour the floor arrived, George told me that his tamper was broken. He intended to use 27 yards of fiberfill concrete for the floor and this type of concrete would not crack. George was wrong about that. There is a long crack in the concrete floor from one side of the front of the foundation to the other. The monolithic floor that produced the front stub wall foundation down to the front footer is very thick and heavy. I believe that tamping would have prevented this crack. I learned quite a bit about concrete foundations during this adventure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">As if that were not enough excitement, the next concrete truck managed to drive over a small pine tree and wedge it firmly between the twin tires of the rear end of the truck. I actually got out my chainsaw and cut down that tree within inches of the tires of that truck. Later, the concrete company owner actually complained that one of the truck mirrors got damaged! Fortunately, the monolithic pouring of the 4-inch floor, front footer and the 12-inch deep central foundation went without a hitch.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">While Butch was digging the foundation (another lunch negotiation) he proposed to install our septic tank and drain field. In the bargain, his plumber friend would also install the house drains between the phases of pouring of the foundation walls and pouring the basement floor. On the morning of the floor pouring, I discovered three plumbing errors about to be buried in concrete. Dashing to town and being unable to locate this friendly plumber, I bought a few fix it devices and modified the plumbing myself. At that point, I realized that I was going to be the plumber for the rest of this project. Within a week, I had a toilet standing all by itself in the middle of the basement. Another vast improvement!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">First, I wanted a French drain around the foundation. I carried buckets of gravel to fill the excavation behind the foundation and leveled it to the base of the footer. Then 4-inch perforated pipes were laid and sloped toward the daylight basement opening, and covered with more gravel. Then a layer of tarred burlap was spread over this gravel to keep dirt from filtering into the piping and covered with more gravel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I also wanted to get the first layer of redwood sill plates installed. George was very happy that I really intended to use the sill bolts that he had installed. I wanted to protect the top of the concrete wall from all of these contractors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">While the back of the foundation was still open, I had the power company excavate from the transformer pole to where I planned for the electric meter to be installed. They installed the underground cable and left the end hanging over the foundation back. I then put two layers of foundation coating on the walls that would soon be backfilled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Since the extension cord and hose strung in the trees was getting in the way and I wanted the shed to have these services permanently, I excavated a trench from the foundation to the shed. In this trench I laid a 1/2-inch water line and an underground cable inside a two-inch PVC pipe. This really only moved the extension cord and hose to the basement. However, in due course, these two lines would be tapped into the house power and water systems. As long as I was at it, I put in another frost-free hydrant by the shed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">When I went to hook the shed water line to the house main water line, I discovered that my excavation crew was really good at digging holes, but their plumbing skills left a bit to be desired. They ran the 1 1/2-inch PVC water line through the back of the foundation wall with galvanized nipples and then connected the copper valving contraption that the plumber provided. Unfortunately, I discovered this poor plumbing technique after they had backfilled the foundation and covered the water line. Fortunately, the backfill was not too well compacted yet. I ended up digging down the four feet to the water line input location by hand and replacing the galvanized fittings with copper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Now that I had a tiny bit of experience, a plan blessed by my guru and a timber-framing design engineer, a sawyer anxiously awaiting my timber order and my brand new mallet and chisel, all I needed was some tools. I started with the obvious shop related stuff, a heavy-duty circular saw, an 18-inch long, one inch auger bit and appropriate drill, a hand planer and a belt sander. My framing cohorts recommended, in addition to my 1 1/2-inch chisel and mallet, I get a 2-inch chisel and a 1-inch corner chisel. They also suggested that I make some sheaths to protect these chisels and their absolutely necessary razor sharp cutting edges. Raising experience told me I would need lots of strong straps, a couple of heavy-duty come-alongs, and some heavy-duty ratchet straps. To replace Ed’s truck mounted crane, I bought an engine hoist capable of lifting 2000 pounds eight feet into the air. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU-O2xCwMFL11a7bOVooi4jMeBGCP5HCZeWJsdAL-LYyJVMPly-DpdoDg2YMKsD0ei4ittivZcu2fWdLeYA097CiyFHvNNtIFVt9sYuzeQRZYzm1_0xZqjHsAiHoeeAcCg3JpiwRGeZkor/s1600/Framing+Tools.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU-O2xCwMFL11a7bOVooi4jMeBGCP5HCZeWJsdAL-LYyJVMPly-DpdoDg2YMKsD0ei4ittivZcu2fWdLeYA097CiyFHvNNtIFVt9sYuzeQRZYzm1_0xZqjHsAiHoeeAcCg3JpiwRGeZkor/s320/Framing+Tools.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">As soon as I gave my shopping list of timbers ("Timber List") to Keith, another vexing problem appeared. How am I going to transport all of these timbers from Keith’s cutting site to Colorado? The biggest and heaviest thing that I had ever moved was a piano! The idea of moving scores of giant timbers, weighting many tons, half way across the country was a bit out of my experience. Fortunately, Keith was very helpful and somewhat experienced in these matters. Keith had an old backhoe with forks to lift timbers and I found a local trucker that had a 48-foot flatbed truck who was willing to tote them to Colorado. Other than the coordination necessary to arrange for the timbers, the truck and the backhoe to all be present at the same place at the same time, all I needed was lots of one-inch ratchet straps to bundle together a manageable and well-organized collection of timbers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">As part of my Timber List, I kept track of the weight of the timbers so that I could transport a building package to Colorado that was under the load limit of the truck. The timber list indicated the timbers would weigh about 65,406 pounds or about 33 tons. My reference sources and weighing experiments indicated that four and a half pounds per board foot was a pretty good oak density guess. Assuming a trucking load limit of 20 tons, I figured that, including the boards it would take three truckloads to move all of the oak to Colorado. This fit nicely with three building stages, the deck, the first floor framing and the roof.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Since my timber list indicated that the deck framing would weigh 24,738 pounds, I figured that I had lots of spare capacity on the first load for boards, the engine crane and my sawhorses. Much too my surprise, the first truckload was several tons overweight and two bundles of joists wound up being offloaded in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> The second trip, a year later, I was more conservative and managed to keep from overloading the truck. On the third and final trip another year later, we had to load the rest of the timbers and boards that I had collected. This time we took the truck to a local weigh station and discovered that again, I wanted more wood on the truck than the truck and shipping regulations would allow. Returning the overloaded truck to Linda’s yard, we unloaded a ton or two of boards and solved this problem. Of course, now we had a new problem – the couple of tons of boards stuck in Pennsylvania. Since the long-term plan called for Linda to move into our house when I got it finished, we figured that these boards would eventually come along with our other precious stuff.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">It seemed logical to model my build-a-timber-framed-house plan after the methodology that I had learned in Ed’s shop. The necessary timbers were stacked at one end of the shop, the joinery was created in the middle of the shop, and the finished and labeled timbers were stacked at the other end of the shop. When all of the necessary timbers had been crafted, the forklift deposited them on a truck, hauled them to the building site, and the crane and crew assembled the finished structure in short order.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMbNWT07QHFhfHc_tdBz4Y1bdYSWa-73SaWXbNU0JuXD_sxM4e4PvpArxBTUS8L01dtyEQb-7owW_Lv3ptbylOvF9UvaYB0-LNM8yy8uEAGVbLCU4_bXzNre4rR2o9hMzAZTxcafow7ZzS/s1600/Lindas+house+-+garage+workshop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMbNWT07QHFhfHc_tdBz4Y1bdYSWa-73SaWXbNU0JuXD_sxM4e4PvpArxBTUS8L01dtyEQb-7owW_Lv3ptbylOvF9UvaYB0-LNM8yy8uEAGVbLCU4_bXzNre4rR2o9hMzAZTxcafow7ZzS/s200/Lindas+house+-+garage+workshop.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Unfortunately, my facilities were a bit more primitive than Ed’s. Linda’s two-car garage workshop space just did not compare with Ed’s huge shop and overhead traveling winch setup. My timbers got slid, rolled and lifted by hand from the raw material pile to the sawhorses and then to the finished pile. My tools were the less expensive homeowner variety, rather than the huge industrial models. Ed’s 12-inch hand planer was far more efficient than my 3-inch planer. My 7 1 / 2-inch circular saw just could not do what Ed’s band saw and 10-inch and 14-inch circular saws could do. The unfinished timbers had to live in a pile outside under a tarp. The three-foot snowstorm in the middle of the deck frame construction project made things a bit more complicated too. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">What really made me abandon this scheme though were the problems that I encountered once I had crafted the deck timbers and transported them to Colorado for assembly. The deck timbers were cut and test fitted in the winter of 1995 and then assembled in the summer of 1996. In this interim, several of my finely crafted joints had altered their shape. Furthermore, the humidity difference at sea level in Pennsylvania and 7,500 feet in Colorado conspired to quickly alter their shape even more drastically. After much joint tuning, I managed to get the deck frame assembled. I noticed that making and installing the freshly cut parts for the daylight basement opening and stairwell went much easier.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">It dawned on me that cutting timbers in Pennsylvania and assembling them many months later in Colorado was not a good plan. Although moving the project to Colorado did not sit well with Linda and me from a romantic point of view, we decided that we would do whatever we had to do to get this project completed. I rented a U-haul trailer and moved my tools, the project and me to Colorado. My 8 by 12-foot on-site shed that was meant for storage suddenly became home.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The plan for the house revolved around having everything that we needed on one floor. Since a square provides</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> the most floor area with the least wall area, we settled on a 40 by 40-foot square house plan for economy. Bearing in mind that a square timber-framed building would define four square interior boxes, we arranged the kitchen, bedroom, dining room and living room, boxes within this floor area. The kitchen had to be the most accessible room with lots of sunshine. The bedroom had to be the least accessible and could be cooler since we both like lots of covers! Naturally, the western view of the mountains had to be the feature of the living room and dining room. We then decided that an appropriate average size for these four rooms would be about 16 by 16 feet. Therefore, a 32 by 32-foot box would work. However, the plan was missing a bathroom and a stairwell to the basement! So we added eight feet to both dimensions of the house to fit these very important features into the plan. This extra eight feet in both directions became a plus shaped space dividing the four main room boxes. The part of the plus between the bedroom and kitchen naturally became the bathroom. The south and west parts of the plus became entrance ways and the north part of the plus provided space for storage and a chimney. The center of the plus provided the central staircase area. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiid7HZoiE0t6i4ssO3wLS6Ws8g5CkTVRYtmmL734_MTtU_JqbjDYcF_Wym3MiA2BeUWJ3LNLhRu9L0Poq5hLHU2_WhcyZ6JoAslM9zVCRCosPwsIORB25iHNutjTLPa9RM2YDe5dmeTWjd/s1600/Deck+Frame.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiid7HZoiE0t6i4ssO3wLS6Ws8g5CkTVRYtmmL734_MTtU_JqbjDYcF_Wym3MiA2BeUWJ3LNLhRu9L0Poq5hLHU2_WhcyZ6JoAslM9zVCRCosPwsIORB25iHNutjTLPa9RM2YDe5dmeTWjd/s400/Deck+Frame.jpg" width="292" /></a><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The four drawings on this page include a Deck Framing plan and three frame Bent drawings. The Deck Framing plan illustrates the timbers used to frame the deck as well as serve a a plan drawing. The left side of the drawing is north, the daylight basement opening side faces west at the bottom. The blue shaded area is the portion of the basement that was not enclosed and served as a workshop. The white area is the portion of the basement that was walled off to serve as the apartment. The three bent drawings are of Bent #1, Bent #2, and Bent #3. The Bent #4 drawing is the same as the Bent #1 drawing, the difference is that the basement wall is a solid concrete wall without any framing. In two dimensions, it is difficult to illustrate the Bay framing. My solution is to illustrate the bents with the joints for the</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> Bay behind it showing. What does not show are the joists in Bays #1 and #3 which run north and south as they do in the Deck Framing plan. </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MmjiSAfftAVQlZ3WcfAZdPMVJU_xAiwb3aHrJKOKob56zifZ_qIvQqkCJjHFdijzU40XK9uvK46A-KpBCIHAYAnkVyvC-lCkFgggoM99qlsN0iun9pm7-nhJbweiZM-hIKAztk413z6v/s1600/House+Frame+-+Bent+%231.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MmjiSAfftAVQlZ3WcfAZdPMVJU_xAiwb3aHrJKOKob56zifZ_qIvQqkCJjHFdijzU40XK9uvK46A-KpBCIHAYAnkVyvC-lCkFgggoM99qlsN0iun9pm7-nhJbweiZM-hIKAztk413z6v/s320/House+Frame+-+Bent+%231.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> We were both accustomed to heating our homes with wood stoves, so a chimney also needed to be in the plan. Since an 8 by 16-foot area for storage is more than enough, a chimney could also occupy some of this part of the plan. The firewood available on our new lot however, is not the hardwood that we were accustomed to in Pennsylvania. We discovered that the wood-burning stove that is best adapted to the use of pine is called a masonry stove. After reading a book on masonry stoves, we decided that we would like to include one in our plan. The massive weight of this stove, not to mention a very tall chimney called for a thick foundation at its base. Having participated in erecting a timber-framed home that had not allowed for a pathway through the timbers for a chimney, I made sure that my frame plan left such a clear space from the foundation to the roof. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Having had the experience of a lot of snow where we planned to live, we decided that a steeply pitched roof to shed the snow load would be a good idea. This also produced a very large loft area providing extra space should other folks decide to help occupy our home. Having lived in an ancient home with numerous exterior additions made to it over the years, “the cave”, Linda wanted lots of windows and open space. We decided to leave the space over the living and dining room areas open and use the loft to provide a ceiling for the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">What I wanted to build is a new building the old fashioned way. All of the new timber-framed buildings that I had worked on were built upon a modern deck. Somehow, TGIs and steel posts in the basement clashed with the timber-framed structure above it. When I asked Ed why the decking of these buildings was not timber-framed to match the building, the answer was cost. Most of this extra cost involved with timber-framed structures is in the labor. Since I proposed to provide the labor, I could rationalize that the labor costs for our plan was zero. This of course is pure rationalization, but it provided the excuse to design my building the way I wanted it. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK7fbtP7xBdCF543N2CNzEMs37SRPw6qhVhi4H1HaXNzTcWch5L5LqyQhjBzm-VgVaN65gCoxrlxNBqXHWeLYvEYBUfHdrK-ntKn4RbsLP8-GZkuXzfMQrIwcjhgyV9yISgTVlt46ca1yV/s1600/House+Frame+-+Bent+%233.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK7fbtP7xBdCF543N2CNzEMs37SRPw6qhVhi4H1HaXNzTcWch5L5LqyQhjBzm-VgVaN65gCoxrlxNBqXHWeLYvEYBUfHdrK-ntKn4RbsLP8-GZkuXzfMQrIwcjhgyV9yISgTVlt46ca1yV/s320/House+Frame+-+Bent+%233.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Free spanning 40 feet across the basement would have required deck support timbers that would not only be unwieldy, but also be very hard to come by. Since the plan called for a central stairwell, I designed a central box to hold up the deck support timbers that radiated out to the foundation walls. This central box would also serve as the support for the stairwell from the basement to the first floor. This central box is duplicated on the first floor to house the stairwell that leads from the first floor to the loft. Again, this central box serves as the support for the framing that extends outward to the exterior walls. This central box became not only the central support and attachment structure of the frame, but a central architectural feature of the house. This plan insured that no timber needed to be longer than 16 feet. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I used nine 8x10 and 10x10 posts to create the center support box in the basement. This is certainly overkill, but it gives a visual impression that the frame is anchored and supported substantially. These nine posts are on 4-foot centers providing plenty of room between them for central passageways, stairways and landings. The nine first floor posts standing atop these nine basement posts are 8x8s in keeping with the dimensions of the rest of the frame. Since the decking beams sit on top of the10x10 basement posts, their top surface area also provides plenty of room for the 8x10 deck beams to be joined and rest safely on top of them. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The daylight basement opening also needed to be framed. The original idea was to use the basement as a garage, large doors on either side of an 8-foot central entrance. This 8-foot central entrance, like the central box, served to support the large spans for the garage doorways. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I wanted to use rafters and purlins for the roof structure just because I like the look of this system. In order to avoid joining the bent and bay horizontal frame beams and the rafters all at the same point at the top of a post, I decided on a tall-posted cape style frame. This separates the horizontal beam joinery from the rafter joinery by the height of the tall post. I read warnings about the stress placed on the top part of these tall posts by the rafters. With this in mind, I designed the tall posts to be 2 feet tall, only 14 inches above the top edge of the horizontal frame beams. The other purpose of taller posts is to create a knee wall at the outside edge of the house at the loft level, increasing the usable area of a loft. With a 40-foot span, we did not need tall loft knee walls at the edge of the frame to increase the loft’s usable area. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I also wanted a ridge beam and king post roofing system, again because of the appearance. The geometry of a 9/12 pitched roof and a 40-foot span reveals the rafters to be 25 feet long. Again, timbers this size would be unwieldy and hard to come by. Since the frame posts are 16 feet apart, I duplicated this dimension for queen posts and also duplicated the 10-foot tall frame posts to serve as attachment points for the rafters. This reduced the 25-foot rafter span basically in half to a more manageable 12 feet. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">To help bear some of the roof load, I also added stub posts under the rafter ends, three feet from the end connection points of the rafters to the posts. Theoretically, these stub posts transfer some of the roof load on the top of the posts to the center of the posts via the first floor braces. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The problem with the central box idea and the goal to maintain a flat flooring surface in all four directions is that all of the beams meet the posts of the central box at the same point on each side of the posts. The top of the post gets riddled with mortises and once two of the beams are pegged, the first two beams cover the peg site of the other two beams. In the basement, I solved this problem by using beams long enough to span to the center post and used a large scarf joint. This created a 40-foot level span across the basement with the scarf joint resting on the posts in the center of the box. These timbers had to be about 22 feet long. Keith was having trouble finding large enough oak trees to produce 22-foot long 8x10 beams. The eight that I used for the basement decking was all that I could get. Since I wanted to produce a level floor at the loft level as well, I needed a new technique. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Diverting from traditional framing techniques, I borrowed a spline technique from Ed. I did not find the spline technique in any of the timber-framing books that I had read. Traditional joinery does not allow for beams at right angles to each other to be joined at the same level without using very large timbers. Since I wanted the frame to have a level surface at the loft (or first floor ceiling) level, splines seemed to be the answer. Additionally, since my intention was to raise the frame by myself and without the aid of a crane, I needed a joinery method that would allow assembly on a timber-by-timber, one at a time basis. Extensive use of spline joinery solved both of these problems. Essentially, the tenons for the beams are replaced with 30-inch long 1 1/2 by 4-inch splines that pass through the post. These splines are 30 inches long to accommodate two pegs on each side of the post without splitting the spline.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Our home plan revolved around features that Linda and I had found in our experience to be handy. We looked for a piece of land with a south or west-facing slope. Although building on a flat piece of ground is easier, sloping ground provides several advantages. We wanted a basement for the utilitarian value of the space and a daylight basement built into the side of a hill makes this space accessible at ground level. A south or west-facing slope allows sunlight to penetrate this space most of the day. An east-facing slope would also have served this purpose but the best views on our land are to the west and afternoon sunshine is usually warmer than morning sunshine. As I expected, the daylight basement is easy to keep warm in the winter and a cool haven on hot summer days.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Since our land is in a rural setting, we anticipated a lack of municipal services such as a public water supply. Our land is also at an elevation of 7,500 feet in a fairly arid part of the country so drilling a well for a water supply would probably not be successful. The typical solution to the water supply problem in this area is having water delivered to a cistern from the town water system. This is where the sloped land comes in handy. If the cistern water supply is at the top of the hill and the house is below it, water can be fed to the house by gravity, thus avoiding the need for a loud and expensive pump. Ideally, a stream would run down this hill, but a piece of land with that feature gets pretty expensive.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The entrance driveway should be fairly flat and run in a north to south direction. This allows the driveway to be in sunshine most of the time facilitating its drying after rain and snow storms. Our plot filled all of these requirements by being at a road intersection. The main road runs north and south along the ridge at the top of the hill where the access road to the cistern is located. The east and west side road goes down the hill where the entrance to our driveway can traverse the plot to the house site and remain fairly level.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">During one of our camping trips we hired the local contractor who had built the roads on the ranch development. I was a little leery of having work done on the land without being there to supervise but without a cistern and a driveway, we weren’t going to get very far very fast. It took this fellow a whole year to get the job done, probably because no one was there to nag him. However, by June of 1993 we had exactly the driveway we had in mind and the cistern was ready to use.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">We also considered that as time goes by, our desire to climb stairs from the basement to the first floor would diminish. To avoid this problem, we designed the building site with the driveway looping around the house site. With this arrangement, we can enter the house at both levels and avoid using stairs. The trick is to make the loop large enough not to create a steep hill in the driveway.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I look back on my apprenticeship with Ed with fond memories. My full-time job did not allow the time to be a real apprentice, so I think of Ed as my mentor. My next opportunity to learn some timber-framing skills after the barn experience was in Eds shop, the current project being a church. Ed gave me the job of making braces and made it sound crucial to the project. Having now made dozens of braces, I know what Ed was thinking. Let’s find out if this guy can cut a straight line and if he can’t at least he won’t be wrecking an expensive timber! Having proved that I could cut two 45-degree angles, exactly 36 inches apart including a 1 1/2 inch tenon on each end, I graduated to curve cutting on a band saw. This lesson taught me the value of pre-made templates. Carefully crafted from sheets of metal siding, a brace template not only allowed the graceful curve on the outside of a brace to be easily and consistently drawn, but also eliminated the tedious measurement of two 45-degree angles, exactly 36 inches apart. The catch is that the template indicates the shoulder of the tenon and it is very easy to confidently trace the end of the template and saw off the tenon! I have done that a few times and Eds wisdom of starting on something other than an expensive timber has become quite clear. Cutting off the tenon of a 16-foot beam would have ended my budding career. Since my frame has 36, 30 and 24-inch braces, I made a point of making the 36 inch braces first so that if I did cut of the tenon, I could still make a 30-inch brace from the disaster. I still have a sample of a 30-inch brace without any tenons. I even wrote “ADD TENON” on each end of the template as a memory jog.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">It took me a while to realize why I was using 5 foot 3x6’s to make 36-inch braces. All of those cut-off ends quickly found their way into the wood stove that kept the shop warm. But warmth was not the goal. Knots in the area of the tenon cause all kinds of troubles and the template is placed on the stock to avoid this problem. A 5-foot piece of stock provided enough wiggle room to avoid a nasty knot right where a tenon shoulder or peg hole will need to be cut.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The next skill that was tested was the ability to cut a tenon. The template indicated the line of the 1 1/2 inch depth cut for the shoulder. The 4-inch tenon length is then cut parallel to the shoulder creating the angle at the end of the brace tenon. The hard part is to cut from the end of the angled end of the piece of wood to the shoulder cut to form the tenon. Unfortunately, a 7 1/2-inch circular saw does not cut from the end of the 4-inch tenon down to the shoulder and a larger saw becomes unwieldy on such a small piece of wood. The result of these two saw cuts still leaves a stout chunk of oak firmly attached. If this attached piece of wood has no knots, inserting a chisel in the saw cut at the end of the tenon and giving it a good whack with a mallet will usually pop out this piece of wood with minimal trimming needed.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I looked around the shop for a chisel and a mallet and noted that the other two guys that were busy creating elaborate joinery both had these tools. I mumbled to no one in particular that I needed a chisel and a mallet. Ed looked at me with an astonished look on his face and said, “How are you going to be a timber-framer if you don’t have a chisel?” Ed left the shop while I pondered the implications of his question. He promptly reappeared from his office with his prized possession, his father’s chisel and mallet. As if the knowledge that this was a precious tool was not enough the scare me to death, Eds parting command was, “Don’t drop it!”</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The rest of the day included enlightenment by my co-workers that I had to provide my own timber-framing tools. Electrical hand tools are expendable, but a chisel is forever. That evening, I returned Eds precious chisel unscathed and promised to return with my own chisel. I learned many lessons that first day in Eds shop. The sacred value of a timber framing chisel, not to mention its’ cost, committed me to timber framing forever more.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Over the next few years, I visited Eds shop as often as I could and helped with whatever project was currently under way. In the fall of 1996, Ed was putting the finishing touches on a house in New Jersey. For a couple of days I helped assemble the wrap-around deck on the front of the house. With its wealth of dormers and hammer beam trusses, this was exactly the kind of timber framing that I wanted to do.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">It seemed like a good idea at the time. In retrospect, it probably really was just your average mid-life crisis. I realized that my fifteen-year career of software engineering in the microelectronics industry would inevitably be totally erased by the delete key. I felt a need to create something that would be a bit more permanent and solid. Meanwhile, I was being offered early retirement packages on a yearly basis. The first time around, it was tempting. The second time around, it was a sign that perhaps it was time to do something else. The creation of a timber framed home seemed to be that something else.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">My first step was the library where I found a single book devoted to the subject of timber framing. </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Building the Timber Frame House</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">, was inspiring. It spoke of traditions, solidity, engineering, planning and beauty – exactly what I had in mind.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">One day, while pondering FORTRAN code in the cafeteria, a co-worker with whom I had shared my fantasy told me that a timber-framed barn was being built right down the street! The next day, I was standing before a magnificent structure, awe and admiration written all over my face. The man, obviously in charge of this creation, said to me, “She is a beauty, isn’t she”. I told him that I would like to learn how to timber-frame and his response, much to my delight was, “why don’t you get up there and help Mike with that dormer then”. Thus began my two-year apprenticeship with Ed.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Linda and I began our plan to build our dream home in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. We combined our lifetime of home experience, into a timber-frame plan and in the fall of 1993, eagerly sought the advice of the few local timber-framing experts that we could locate. It seemed logical to visit a timber framer in New Hampshire. Much to our dismay, our plan was far too simple to get a major timber framers attention. It was suggested that we talk to one of the many smaller timber-framing outfits. We obtained estimates from two of these outfits in the $65,000 range just for the frame. This was quite a bit more than we had in mind. Linda summed up the situation with her own wisdom, “It’s just you and me baby”.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">While pondering the plan, writing software, contemplating early retirement and apprenticing on weekends and holidays, the 100-foot tall tulip poplar tree within a few feet of my house died. I contacted a fellow name Keith who owned a portable saw mill. In the course of creating beautiful tulip poplar boards, Keith assured me that he could also create the oak timbers to build our timber-framed home. The idea of timbers from oak trees was new to Keith and he was delighted that I also wanted the boards that would result from heart cut timbers. We were relieved that these oak trees would be cut down anyway to clear land, which was his primary business.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">With a plan and a source of materials in hand, Linda and I began what I assured her would be a two year project. Three years later, in early 1999, we stood in awe of our magnificent timber-frame and sat on the main beam watching the sunset.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I told many people that I was planning to build a timber-framed home alone, in the middle of nowhere Colorado. No one came right out and said that it could not be done, but scepticism could be seen in their eyes. Even my mentor, Ed, suggested that I would need a crane. This sort of response would discourage some people; to me it became an irresistible challenge. I said to my wife Linda, I’m a physicist and an engineer, I’m sure it can be done. Unlike these other sceptical folk, Linda’s response was “Let’s go for it, it’s time for an adventure!” Indeed, it can be done and has been the most enormously challenging and gratifying experience of my life.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">In my mind, time, energy and motivation are the three elements that one needs, and with them, anyone can accomplish just about anything. Given these three elements, accomplishing something is simply a matter of the tools and materials that are available. With a given set of tools and materials, one can formulate a plan to reach ones goal. The materials available define the nature of the end result and the tools available define how the material is worked to achieve the goal.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">This idea was hatched some time in 1992. Since my experience with both timber framing as well as house building was almost non-existent, I told Linda it would probably take me about two years to build our house. I would go to Colorado and build our house and when it was done we could move to Colorado and live in it. To keep her abreast of progress, I took photos at significant points in the project. When these snapshots did not prove to be adequate, I bought a video recorder and perched it on a timber to record some of the more exciting events. I also jotted cryptic notes on calendar pages for a while. As I finally begin to write this book late in 2003, I am finishing the last of the carpentering projects, the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">At some point in this adventure, the notion of writing a book relating my experience in solo timber frame house building occurred to me. I confidently assumed that my ongoing documentation process would allow me the reconstruct the construction process. Unfortunately, once the video camera got boring, the film developing got expensive, and the calendar jotting got forgotten, the documentation of progress started to get sparse. Giant leaps occurred with only my ageing memory for documentation. As a result, some of the details of construction are a bit fuzzy. Having reviewed these cryptic documents, I realize that the critical details are simply locked up in my memory. I spoke with my daughter, Alyssa about this dilemma. Her recommendation was to provide information rather than historical accuracy since the idea of this book is to be instructive rather than leading the reader through my learning curve. With this advice in mind, I will attempt to narrate the construction process as accurately as my documentation and memory will allow. At the same time I’ll try to incorporate a bit of hindsight. In the light of several years of experience, there are always options that would probably have worked better. Hopefully, the blending of experience and hindsight might allow the reader to pursue the idea of building ones own timber frame house without necessarily following in my sometimes-dubious footsteps.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I kept several bits of wisdom pertaining to this sort of project in mind at all times. “Safety First”, “KISS – (Keep It Simple Stupid)” and “Work with what you have” are at the top of my list. Unfortunately, there is nothing safe about sharp tools, heavy timbers and working alone, so my wife added “Be Extremely Careful” to the list. Ed also added another key to the puzzle – always keep thinking, “What’s Next?” If you don’t always have the answer to “What’s next?” then it’s time to get a new plan. I soon learned to temper this “foresight” with my own “One Thing at a Time” philosophy. Last but not least, one must always recognize and respect nature and her forces, most relevantly, wind and gravity.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">In my mind, every successful project must begin with a clear, safe, and simple plan. Though a drawing is necessary, being able to draw the plan does not guarantee that you can execute your beautiful drawing. I converted my drawings to a small-scale frame model and tried to envision how I was going to build the full-scale frame as I assembled the model. This process not only helped to provide a three-dimensional view of the project, but also provided an opportunity to think through all of the steps that would be necessary for assembly. It also helped to fine-tune the plan. The fact is that I had little idea what I was doing and learned along the way. At some point you just have to build the real thing!</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Beyond the desire to build a timber-frame home, was the fact that this had to be a low-budget project. The creation of a simple plan eliminated the need for an expensive architect. The desire to build the frame myself eliminated the need for an expensive crew. Working with timbers and boards made with a portable sawmill, rather than dimensionally perfect lumber, reduced the cost of materials. Come alongs and a gin pole replaced the expense of a crane. The price of all of this economy was my time and effort. A huge amount of credit for the realization of this timber-framed home belongs to my wife Linda who provided the working funds, confidence and encouragement for me to have the time that was needed to build our dream. It has been about eight years now and I’m almost done.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: large;">A Timber Framing Adventure</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Although this book is about the building of a timber framed home in Colorado, it’s also the story of a fellow who wanted to do something substantial with his life. I wanted to leave a little bit of me behind that would exist beyond my time. I also wanted to inspire someone else to do something with their life that would leave the world a little better off than it was when they got there. Some call this emotion a mid-life crisis. I called it a need to stop coasting through life and do something that made a difference in the world.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I looked about the world and into my past and found that I was inspired by structures built for a human purpose of quality materials and superior craftsmanship. Michelangelo saw to the building of structures that are magnificent to this day. In the course of my existence, I have lived in dozens of buildings, everything from a refurbished chicken coop to a 25-story concrete dormitory. What inspired my awe and respect were the buildings that were built for people that were designed to last forever. There had to be someone responsible for the building of those structures and I wanted to be one of those some ones. I spent six months in Europe during my college career and was overwhelmed by buildings that are still being used and occupied to this day and have been serving that purpose for hundreds of years. After college, I moved from Illinois to Pennsylvania into a home that was over one hundred years old. Not many people know the name of the man that built that house, but I do. Peter built a house designed to last for generations out of bricks and chestnut and slate. He obviously built it with great care and it is still being lived in long after people have lost track of his name. This was my idea of making a difference in the world and I decided that I wanted to follow in those footsteps. I wanted not only to build a lasting structure, but hopefully to inspire someone in the future to do something lasting that would make the world a better place to be.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I was very disappointed as a child to learn that Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin disintegrated and no longer exists. I was once naive enough to think that I wanted to build a stone castle on a hill. To this day, I still note hills where another castle could be built. Enough doses of reality have convinced me of the impracticability of this idea. I knew from direct experience that a stick house build with as little glue and as few nails as possible would surely fall apart. In Pennsylvania, I looked about me and saw sturdy barns made with timbers and pegs. One day I witnessed an attempt to demolish such a barn to make way for another housing development. A bulldozer operator, who was expecting to collapse this barn into its’ basement smashed into one corner of this barn. The entire barn frame slid off of its’ stone foundation into its basement remaining totally intact. Seeing this incredibly durable structure endure this brutal assault, I decided that this was the kind of building that I wanted to build. I went to the architecture section of the library and eventually found a book describing this type of building and learned that I wanted to build a timber-frame house. This is the kind of building that would last for 500 years and perhaps I could build just such a building.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">The book that I found on that fate full day in the library was, </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Building the Timber Frame House.</span><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;"> I took that book home and consumed it cover to cover. Since the library expected me to return it, I went to a book store and ordered a copy of my own. Mr. Benson’s book inspired me. It spoke of traditions, solidity, engineering, planning and beauty – exactly what I had in mind. It seemed to me that he had found the answer to his dreams and those dreams were the same as mine. It even began to dawn on me that not only would the building of a timber-framed home fulfil my dream, but that writing about it might be another way to inspire others to greatness. Mr. Benson not only inspired me to build a timber-framed home, but also planted the seed of this book.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. An excellent author can evoke mind pictures with the use of words and needs not employ pictures. I am no such author. On the other hand, there are pictures that I don’t think can be put into words. Because of these two concepts, this book relies heavily on pictures. I took all of the photos with either a camera or a video recorder over the course of my timber framing experience. The drawings are also of my own creation, with occasional modifications of the drawings of others. Most or all of the things that I think of as my own inventions have no doubt already been invented. I apologize for any false assumptions, offensive terms or faulty statements; these too are of my own creation.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">Timber framing and building construction in general is littered with terminology that probably is not familiar to everyone. Not being a life-long professional timber framer or building tradesman, some terminology is also foreign to me as well. I tried to describe things in terms that the average person can relate to and only resort to fancy terms (as I understand them) when necessary. Hopefully, the pictures and drawings also help to clarify what I am trying to describe. I have also included an index and a glossary at the end of this book to help explain some of this unavoidable terminology.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I hope that this book is both informative and entertaining. To gain the wisdom of others, I have read several of the countless books on the subject of house building and its many associated aspects. I have also read several books on the subject of timber framing specifically. I was once a Boy Scout, a gymnast, a student of science and education, a handyman, a professional engineer and a timber-framing apprentice. Frustrated with my own history of repairing the mistakes of other home builders, I decided that I would like to build and maintain a home composed of only my own inventions and mistakes. The practical application of this assortment of research, training and experience has led to what I think is the unique design and construction process of this timber-framed home. This book is an attempt to share this product of my imagination and whatever wisdom I may have acquired in the process with others.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">One of the reasons that this timber-framed home is unique in today’s’ world of speedy assembly of manufactured components is that it was constructed from raw materials. If what was needed could be made from an oak timber or board, rather than buying a finished product, I built it myself. Although this book focuses on the three-year long solo creation of a timber-framed structure, it also covers the process of developing a finished timber framed structure into a beautiful home. I did however, at times surrender to practicality. I was fairly certain that commercial exterior doors and windows would be superior to anything that I might make. The same applies to interior and exterior sheathing materials and the typical plumbing and electrical fixtures. Whenever possible, I avoided acquiring help. With the exception of the crews that built the concrete foundation, the water and power utilities and the roof, all of the labour to build this timber-framed home was my own.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-size: small;">I also hope to share the emotional aspect of this home building experience. Beyond the practical information related to the building of a timber-framed home, I would like to include a sense of the adventure of this process. The events that I have included really did happen. These events have been included in the hope that others may learn from my euphoric successes as well as my disastrous mistakes.</span></div>
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