Thanks Carl,
My plans keep evolving as I learn more.
Currently, I'm not going to use a sill..just posts. I was thinking I like Paul Freeman's idea of granite blocks under the posts. The granite would have a hold drilled, then steel rod in the hole and a corresponding hole in the post base. I will also put sonotubes under the granite blocks and will not be visible.
Sounds like the weights are not bad as single timbers, whole bents? I may need a to borrow a tractor to raise the bents.
I've been studying joinery, and deciding if I want to put the connecting gurts on the post top to make a roof truss, or below the post top and use a through-tenon or wedged through tenon.
If I don't get going and order the wood I'll be out there in January working on this thing!
I also need to figure out pegs. I might cut down a small maple or oak and try to make a few.
-Jeff
-jeff
