Brad,

No, I'm not coming to the TFG conference this year, but I wish I was. Are those pictures of a barn or church? It's definitely neat looking.

I wasn't going to use the words timber framing in my post, but after looking at the pictures of the TFG Pemberton Barn project in BC with all their steel I wanted people to be able to search on knife plater slotters and see the California Knife Plate Slotter or Okie Knife Plate Slotter for timber framing or steel plate framing.

authentic frame in the future.... not in California.
If it doesn't have a couple tons of steel in the structural engineering then it wouldn't be built in California today. On one of our fire insurance jobs, 485 sqft, where we'll do a UBC 2013 code upgrade on the fire damaged area of the house built in the 1950's we will add 22 Simpson holdowns.

What's on top of Billy's truck? A helicopter or drone landing pad?

Sim