Kitchen frame

Before the heavy trusses can be placed into position, the support structure needs to be braced, by leaning on the braced up light timber kitchen frame. By next summer this will be the engine house for the some great meals and long lunches in the completed riders lounge.

Kitchen frame takes the load

View from the staff room

Putting together the big frame

Working with heavy salvage timbers can still be an exercise in carpentry. As my chipie mate Andy says, carpenters work in millimetres and plasterers in centimetres. Joints are checked out to allow for variations in timber sizes, steel plates bolted on and the whole thing bolted together like a portal frame.

Posts are checked out to a common thickness

Plates bolted on with M20 bolts

 "Roger" the beam to the left is named in honour of the source, regular rider Roger the Gippsland Dentist. 135mm x 390mm x 5400mm solid WA Jarrah.