In 1989, my father-in-law taught me to smoke meats and cheeses. I was a timber frame builder—I have my own company, called OakBridge Timber Framing—and I wanted a home project to help me ...

BILLINGS - It sounds mystical, but it's true. Nels Houghton's dream was the catalyst that brought Daniel Schwartz, an Amish craftsman who specializes in timber-frame buildings, from El Dorado Springs, ...

LIVERMORE — The first beams for the historic Norland’s barn reconstruction project will be cut during a free workshop on traditional timber frame joinery presented by Maine Post & Beam. The ...

Not only do some of them specialize in the timber-frame construction method that doesn't use nails, they often can erect a house faster and for less money than traditional contractors, customers ...

Today, Holder builds those type of barns using large timbers and wooden pegs reminiscent of a structural skill that nearly died out as the 20th century evolved new ways to build barns.

Their goal over four days — under the supervision of a Vermont-based team of instructors — was to frame and raise a barn from heavy timber cut from a stand of white pine, then milled on-site ...

Timber frame and post and beam construction are both beautiful methods of constructing a house. ... Yankee barn Homes built this post and beam/panelized house in East Hampton New York.