The Flying Queen Post: Crew's Choice, 2004, Hampton, New Brunswick

Every year the crew picks a favourite frame. It has nothing to do with size, but rather with style, and usually it is small, or much like an old time frame. This year (2004)'s choice is like an old time frame. It has common rafters, principal purlins and a new connection that we're calling "flying queen posts".... Well, maybe it's not completely like an old time frame.

Left: the frame ready for raising, and right: at the end of the day.

Note the horizontal principal purlins that run the length of the structure, supporting the common rafters. This frame, like most of our frames, has principal purlins, connected to principal rafters at the bents, with the bays filled in with common rafters.

And here are those flying queen posts.

Left: the main hall. Right: the stairwell.