timberframe drive shed in BCLarge outdoor timber frame drive shed for dovetail log home

Back to Forrest Island near Sidney, BC — 2004

doing joinery on the islandTwelve years after working on a team of four to build the main residence, we were asked to construct a large outdoor drive shed.

posts and beams waiting for raisingGateway Timberframes of Sidney called us to lay out and cut all the joinery for the project.

It was fun to get back to the West Coast as we had spent 5 great years in the late 1980s there, log building. 

The Douglas Fir plates were 8” x 14”. 

The change in elevation on one end required careful layout.

one end of the shed was taller than the resttimber framingpost and beamscorner joinerypost and beam

timber framerSpecial thanks to Gene Burlock of Gateway Timberframes for hosting us as well as Shawn Gale, an aspiring young timber framer from Ontario who formed a great duo with Richard Cormier.

Island work is great, but can be slowed down by transport of materials to the site.