BROOKS, Maine — All last winter, master timber framer Bud Menard of Jackson worked for many hours during the long, cold days — about 600 hours — to prepare and carefully fit the heavy beams, posts and ...

MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS — What do you do when you’ve got an old barn on your property threatening to collapse? Some call Luke Larson. Larson purchased Green Mountain Timber Frames over the winter. The ...

Scars left by axes swung before the Civil War show the work of skilled builders who shaped timbers for use in homes, barns and warehouses long before cutting machinery came along. Each board or beam ...

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CANE HILL -- Smells of brewed coffee and wood dust filled the air on the Sunday afternoon, June 1, of a long-anticipated, once-delayed timber framing workshop held May 29 to June 4 at Colburn Barn ...

John Ebersole’s workshop, deep in the countryside of Christiana, smells of wood warmed by late-morning winter sunlight. It’s not a large space. Three visitors, plus Ebersole, are enough to make it a ...

Using full-color photos, detailed drawings, and clear step-by-step instructions, Learn to Timber Frame (Storey Publishing, 2016) is a guidebook for beginners, showing exactly how to build one small ...

RAISING THE BARN: Chris Faulkner of Faulkner Woodworking and Rob Skeen of Bracken Mountain Builders work a post into its perfectly level place, under the watchful eyes of Terry Holdredge (a plastic ...

Text description provided by the architects. MDB was selected by a wonderful couple to preserve their circa 1860 timber-frame barn. The barn hadn't been touched in over 60 years but for the turkey ...