Enjoy this fast-paced video showcasing timber frame raisings from all over New England, from Carriage Barns to timber frame homes, center aisle barns, custom barns, event venues, timber frame pavilions, and more.
After the timbers are expertly crafted in our Ellington, CT shop, it’s time for our favorite day, raising day: the day we connect the timbers together with oak pegs instead of nails and construct the timber bents, or cross-sections of the building, made of structural posts & beams. We then raise the bents into place with a crane and build the barn up from there: first the dovetailed floor joists, summer beams, braces, and top plates, then the ridge beam, roof rafters, and dormers.
Join us on this incredible barn build in central Iowa. Follow the story from frame to finish, and marvel at the epic completed exterior and breathtaking interior.
We sent two raising supervisors to assist the customer's local crew and raised the timber frame in two and a half days during a hot and hazy summer in northern Montana.
The crew from CT LIVE! set up a TV studio inside a Post & Beam Carriage Barn on display at The Barn Yard in Ellington, CT to broadcast the show live today. CT LIVE! host Taylor Kinzler spoke with The Barn Yard President Everett Skinner about the biggest sale of the year and toured the many buildings on display at The Barn Yard and at the Big E.