Timber Framers Guild Forums General Barns and Traditional Timberframing Old Ontario Barn - Joinery Questions

In my home area, some bank barns do have reversed reference on interior bents. I believe the raising order was to erect the gable end bays before the central bent was raised. The indicator of raising order can be found in over-under scarfing, under scarfs are placed first. In these cases the central plates and purlins have over scarfs on both ends, thus making the central members the last placed in the line.