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Sliced and Diced

I had my Inguinal hernia repair today…yes sunday! St Johns Livingston was rammed as they are running weekend sessions to clear the general surgery backlog. Long day - checked in at 7.30am, operated 12.00-1.00 and home on the sofa by 6! Went like a dream, 10cm incision, bit sore but feeling great! Good job I finished that Tiny Barn on saturday - I will not be lifting 150mm beams for a while!

And I REALLY will be sensible and not rush out to lift and build - so will be taking it easy for a good few weeks (no barn or tiny house building!) - will be having massive creative sessions on the Mac designing Tiny House Scotland new products for release in a few months.. ..there’s going to be a tiny barn model up to 20 square metres and a cabin model up to 50 square metres.

Also let’s hear it for the superb NHS staff who were kind courteous and professional today - thanks so much!

Anyone want a pic of the result?

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    Frame nearly finished.

    barn frame nearly finished, post and beam frame,

    The frame was drawn in Sketchup then fully cut and jointed in the workshop before assembly. I decided to build the three lateral bents first and there was the advantage that the North end joins on to the existing barn - so this one went up first and was connected to the footing brackets as well as having several through-bolts into the masonry barn wall.

    It was then easy to erect the middle bent using two of the purlins to set the horizontal distances and provide propping while connecting to the footing brackets.

    Barn Finials

    690mm tall, these finials were inspired by my love of victorian railway architecture and made for our barn. I hadn’t used the lathe for a long time so it was quite a challenge to end up with two identical forms.

    They were turned from lime wood, primed, painted with Jonathan Avery Sabbathday Blue and stuck on with silicon - no mechanical fixings! Why do it? Well they emphasise the structure almost like punctuation!

    Barn Finials by Jonathan Avery

    Barn Finials by Jonathan Avery