November 24, 2009 – 4:37 pm
My friend Paul said he was going to cook Udon after he seen my blog so I will give my recipe how to eat these noodle.
First, I recomment to get Udon because you can ger very decent freezed dry Udon from Japanese food store.
- Udon (freezed dry) Boil 2 minutes until frozen take off, it is already cooked.
- Fresh ginger (ground)
- Green onion (chopped)
- Ninben source (concentrate noodle source) Add 1/2 watter with this source and put ginger, green onion in.
Then dipp the noodle in a source and enjoy with Beer!
November 23, 2009 – 6:29 pm
Kiyo and I just came back from raising Richie frame. Frame went up in three days, weather was not great but had one good day to raised most.
It was good set up, very good client Richie and his son Karsten and contractor Jay who I respect as very hard work timber framer, we all worked very hard to set this up and get done in short period time.
I felt many things during set up, I thought we worked hard without any jokes and just kept working, I was wondering if I was doing all right but I seem do this every time, always concern to spend time, want to get it done quick.
Kiyo is my apprentice he said he was not able to enjoy the set up, not because of hard work, he did not know if he was great help, this was his first frame to set up. We went over many things during drive back and we know what we can do better again next time.
But, what matter is, either we get job done, build good frame and client are happy. We got job done, we believe it is great strong frame and Richie and his family are happy! This is right size of house frame for me, and Jay said it is clean design that I agree. Price was right, we could worked on without interruption and I am happy about result.
- First day, unload lift with fork lift, build bent on floor without any equipment. Me and Kiyo is not as strong as others, it was a bid hard for us.
- Day 2, rain, no crane, Jay wanted to raise it without crane but I resist, so half day working.
- Day 3, crane came! Put all bent up to plate.
- Day 4, all purlins and rafters were up left to home around 1:00 PM. Total 167 pcs, 9,000 bdft, so 55 pcs, 3,000 bdft a day for set up.
November 23, 2009 – 6:07 pm
I would not use any green material to build frame unless there are good reason to.
But the price of KD material and green materials are double the cost and sometime I have to find a way to build frame with lower budget.
Fortunately, we have good forest surrounding and we can source reasonably dry dead standing material. Limitation of these materials are sizes of logs that we will not able to get FOHC on bigger and longer materials.
So we applied kirf on timbers to focus all check in top to prevent it to check on side. Timber with boxed heart, it will tend to check where ever close face of timber to center so most likely, it will check on side.
We had one project that had time in between so we applied kirf right after we received this dead standing material, put bigger dannage under also side to air can go through to dry timber while waiting. We had about 10 days to leave this timber in our shop and this is the result.
- M/C was average 18% when we received material and it came down to 16% at the time we start to plane.
- Kirf need to be apply before plane so kirf on top can open.
- We have seen the kirf opens average 1/4 inch so it is working.
- We have planed 4 side after so timber is square with open kirf on top of beam, no side check.
- We will be checking this timber next while to see if the system works.
November 23, 2009 – 5:55 pm
This is renovation project in Sun Peaks, design by Karl Willms. Building is not too old but style seems a bid old. Almost every house in this Ski resort uses timber in some way, often see full timber frame in this area. Our project was not big so we focused on quality, furniture quality to see if that makes difference in appearance. I presented locking mechanizm with wood joinery that is not used in any aspect, just came up on my head, but I have done similler kind of joinery in a past.
The challenge was to fit in existing roof, but it went easier than I thought. Mibroc guys are always great to work with, support us greately. Our crew Kiyo and Eiji stayed late a couple days to get this done, I was up set up main frame only one day and left the rest of work to crew, too cold!
I have not seen it completed picture yet but our work is done.
