Building the new bakery.

We’ve run out of space in our little prep room so we’re making a new space with wood from the hill. We’re using a technique called round wood timber framing.

This is the rough plan,

Getting ready to pour the foundations and flooring.

Our new clay oven.

These are elm posts from forestry work on the hill. The square timbers are a Framing Jig (template) so we can make the frames from wonky wood and when we stand them up they should all fit.

Poles being de-barked in the background and brought to the building site with a little dolly.

Here’s our first practice “butterpat joint”.

This is our rounding pane, it takes square pieces of oak and makes them round. This is what the logs are held together with. Lots of hours of work have gone into producing pegs for the building.

Thats a 25mm wide and 50cm deep hole through elm.

Drilling 1” holes through Elm logs takes it toll on your drills, this was one of the last holes that this drill drilled before it all got too much for it. I’m currently on my 3rd drill of this project.

We got some help lifting the frames into place. Hopefully the project will go faster now that the frame is up.

There was a moment when the whole thing wanted to go in the wrong direction but we had plenty of hands and it all went well.

After the first day of frame lifting.