Test-Assembling the New Frame
10/2/18 I've decided to just go ahead and start documenting the project as it is now. We are more than half-way through the workshop phase, but I can come back and talk more about things we have already done later once the project is finished for the year. I won't have the time to blog the current backlog until after this season. Today we test fitted the new frame. This involved fitting each joint separately and then putting them all together by raising each side and plugging in the side strut. The frame joins together with mortise and tenon joints. The pieces on the ground are put together first, and then the main rails are laid sideways on top of them and the a-frames and uprights plugged into the rails. Then the axle blocks are fit on the top of the uprights and a-frames and the assembly, called in timber-framing a "bent," is raised barnyard-style by having a person walk-up each piece. Once a bent is in the air we can plug in the corresponding side-strut