Holder Bros. was brought in to plan and execute the removal and dismantling of the roof system of this 1840's building. The roof was made up of fifteen yellow pine kingpost trusses, each spanning 40 feet. The trusses were built using the scribe rule and featured hand hewn tie beams 42 feet long and hand hewn joggled king posts.
A great room timber roof system built with reclaimed heart pine timbers using plumb-line scribing methods. Location: Morgan County, Georgia General Contractor...
Recently, the Athens Banner-Herald newspaper featured Whit and Gabel Holder, co-owners of Holder Brothers Timber Frames, on the front page of the paper and on the web site's home page. "Monroe brothers are 'Marvels' with an ax" was the headline that ran on Saturday, March 1st in the Athens, Georgia based newspaper. The feature article was about the two timber framers'... read more
WHERE do two timber framers from Georgia make their television debut discussing a hand tool commonly used to build historic reproduction timber frames and repair historic timber frames? You guessed it--on the History Channel. ("Historic timber frames" was...