Watch a 90-ft.-long custom CNC machine make all the precise cuts for a timber rafter. This timber-framing shop uses a Hundegger K2i, a CNC multihead machine that cuts the timbers to length and does the majority of the joinery. A timber goes in one end and a nearly complete piece of the timber frame comes out the other. The joints do need to be cleaned up with hand tools afterwards, but that takes a tiny fraction of the time it would have taken to cut the entire post or beam by hand.
Read the feature article about modern timberframing, “21st-Century Timber Framing”: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2019/04/10/21st-century-timber-framing
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