Great Country Timber Frames Blog
Timber frame news, post and beam barn raisings, recent projects, & other stories.
New Featured Project: 80' x 120' Timber Frame Barn
We have a new project in our projects section that we’re excited to share with you: this incredible 80' x 120' timber frame barn. It is the largest barn we’ve raised to date.
Posted to Blog: Tuesday, January 16, 2018
New Featured Project: Mad River Barn Wedding Pavilion
Located in Waitsfield, Vermont, we built this 40' x 100' timber frame wedding pavilion for Mad River Barn. With breathtaking queen post timber truss design, a variety of complex timber frame joinery, and visually interesting scarf joints with red oak wedges, this wedding pavilion provides a space worthy of life’s most important gatherings.
Posted to Blog: Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Open House January 20
You’re invited! We’re hosting our third annual open house on Saturday, January 20, 2018 from 9am - 1pm. Tour our advanced manufacturing facility and watch us cut a timber frame Carriage Barn on our CNC machine.
Posted to Blog: Thursday, January 04, 2018
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you & yours from The Barn Yard & Great Country Timber Frames family.
Posted to Blog: Friday, December 22, 2017
Visited by Gunnery Sergeant Thomas J. Sullivan’s Family and the Mayor of Springfield
This afternoon, we welcomed the family of Gunnery Sergeant Thomas J. Sullivan and the Mayor of Springfield, Domenic Sarno, to our manufacturing & design facility in Ellington, CT. Tommy gave his life while defending his country on Thursday July 16, 2015 during an attack on a Naval Reserve Center in Chattanooga, TN. The Skinner Family, owners of The Barn Yard & Great Country Timber Frames, have donated a timber frame pavilion to be built at Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Sullivan Park, a new park currently under construction in East Forest Park, Springfield, MA. Mayor Sarno and Tommy’s family were able to view the pavilion being manufactured on The Barn Yard & Great Country Timber Frame’s state of the art CNC machine.
Posted to Blog: Tuesday, October 10, 2017
The Bald Hill Timber Frame Home Featured in CT East Magazine
We were honored to be featured in the spring/summer 2017 issue of Connecticut East magazine. Read the story here.
Posted to Blog: Friday, July 21, 2017
Sonny’s Timber Frame Octagon Complete
70' wide. All timber frame. No interior posts. Authentic mortise & tenon wood connections. Enough said.
Posted to Blog: Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Scenes from the Shop 6
In the design side of our manufacturing & design facility in Ellington, CT, dreams begin to take shape. Our full-time architectural designers work hard drawing plans, producing 3D designs, and working with the structural engineers (also on staff) to create the data for the CNC machine and the blueprints for the crews.
Posted to Blog: Friday, May 26, 2017
Scenes from the Shop 5
This timber frame kit is the end result of all the hard work our dedicated employees put in throughout the process. From precision cutting to hand sanding, it's a one of a kind kit that is ready to be shipped and raised on site.
Posted to Blog: Thursday, May 25, 2017
Scenes from the Shop 4
That smooth, velvet-like finish on our timber frames is the result of the hard work of our sanding crew, next in our behind-the-scenes tour.
Posted to Blog: Wednesday, May 24, 2017