Thank you for the video. I noticed you used a lit if mortis and tennon joinery. Would half-laps have worked as well? Half-laps seem easier, but your work looks great and seems stronger, maybe.
Thank you for the comment. Mortises are more difficult to make without a mortising machine but I do believe it to be stronger as green wood tends to warp and twist. This twisting locks the tenons in a mortise fairly tight.
The floor is 8' x 10'. We used zip panels with board and batten over that. The wood came from Wallatowa (Jemez Pueblo, NM). Mostly Ponderosa Pine with some Douglas Fir. I drew the plans with Sketch Up (the free version with a timber frame plug in). My laptop crashed, so I no longer have the plans and don't remember all of the dimensions.
@user-ul8ow1xc5q You're welcome. Sketch Up is no longer free, and neither is the timber frame rubies written by Clark Bremmer. It was a pretty steep learning curve, but plenty of RU-vid videos were available at the time. Most are now outdated, and the instructions are no longer valid. The last time I checked, Sketch Up was expensive, and the company that bought it from Google was discouraging third-party plug-ins. I think Clark now sells his ruby script for $20.00 along with an instruction booklet. It all worked well for me, and I doubt if I could have done it otherwise.
