It’s been a while since we’ve posted any new projects, but things have been hopping at Lancaster County Timber Frames. Here’s the first of a couple installments of the some of the projects we’re working on now, or will be soon: First, here’s a shot of one of the bents for the Lebanon VA Behavioral […]

Panels In the early eighties the panels that were most commonly available to timber framers were not called SIPs (structural insulated panels); they were simply called “panels” or “insulated panels” or “skins”. Typically, such panels were comprised of a sheet of ½”, or more correctly 7/16’, OSB (oriented strand board) adhered to a layer of […]

Shops Most of the shops back then were small by today’s standards. Many of them were in barns, some merely in driveways, others in ramshackle structures. After three years of working in a driveway my partner and I built, with mostly recycled material, a 32’x38’ shop. It was like heaven to us. For the first […]