This is the saw mill at Bodie, Ca when I visited a few years ago.  I can't imagin running a mill with a blade that large.  Not much has changed however in the last one hundred years or so, carpenters still build homes with nails, hammers, and saws.

 Last winter we build a house in Las Ventanas, a developement in the Arroyo Grande Valley.  This was as the very begginning of the build.  Nearly everyday we encountered wind gusts up to 20 mph.  It ended up being a beautiful home.

 These are the beams that the owners decided to put in after the roof was already built.  Normally we would have built pockets in the framing and set these 30 foot long beams with a crane but that would have been too easy.  It took nearly a month to mill and set all of the beams in the house.

The Klempton family room ceiling.  Bob Klempton purchased this reclaimed wood from a barn in Wyoming and we installed it.  Each board was different from the last therefore we were given the artistic freedom to come up with a pattern and design for the installation.