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.
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