A two-bay timber garage at dusk, exterior lights washing down the cedar siding

Project

Polebridge Garage

North Fork of the Flathead — 2026

Standing timber to finished shop, one crew

A two-bay timber garage on the same North Fork property as the Polebridge cabin. It started as forest. We felled and bucked the trees, pulled the stumps, cut the grade, ran the water line, built the pad, set the forms, poured the slab and then framed, sheathed and finished the building — without a single handover to another contractor.

That is the argument this project makes better than any of the others, because it is photographed the whole way through. Every stage below is the same crew on the same site in the same season.

Type: Two-bay timber garage and shop
Completed: 2026
Location: North Fork, Flathead County
Size: 1,400 sq ft, 1,260 sq ft clear bay
Log species: Spruce
Structure: Timber post and beam, left exposed
Roof: Single-pitch metal roofing
Site work: Clearing, grading, utilities, pad and slab by Worthnest
Also on site: Polebridge Cabin →

Finished

Cedar, timber and a single pitch

Two clear bays, exposed post and beam inside, and an eave deep enough to keep the doors out of the weather.

The garage straight on, two cedar overhead doors under a single-pitch roof — Front elevation

The garage from three-quarters showing the depth of the eave and the side wall — Eave and side wall

The garage from the far side with the forest and rail fence behind — From the fence line

The garage with both doors open showing the timber posts and beam carrying the roof — Doors open — the frame doing the work

A timber post meeting crossing beams beneath a white ceiling — Post and crossing beams, left exposed inside

The garage at dusk with the exterior lights on and the doors lit — Dusk, lights on

How it got there

Bare ground to finished, in order

Most builders can show you the last photograph. These are the ones in between.

1 · Clearing and ground

A track loader taking out a standing tree while a man works below with a saw — Taking the site down to open ground

A track loader working cleared ground with stumps and root wads piled to one side — Stumps and root wads out

Logs from the cleared site bucked and stacked beside the drive — Trees off the site, bucked and stacked

A track loader shaping the graded building area with spoil piled either side — Cut, fill and rough grade

Batter boards and marking paint setting out the building corners, excavator behind — Corners laid out and marked

An open utility trench with the water line laid in and drain rock alongside — Utility trench and water line

2 · Pad and slab

Crew placing concrete from a mixer truck into the formed slab — Pouring the slab — our pad, our forms, our crew

A dump truck placing crushed base while an excavator spreads it — Road base placed and spread

Crushed gravel stockpiled on the graded building pad with string lines run — Gravel on site, pad taking shape

Crew on the compacted gravel pad with the edge forms set — Pad compacted, forms set

Edge forms and a tied rebar mat covering the finished pad, ready to pour — Steel tied, ready to pour

Crew finishing the surface of a freshly poured slab — Finishing the surface

The completed slab from the gravel apron with the crew cleaning up — Slab down

3 · Frame and shell

Four of the crew lifting a framed wall upright by hand on the fresh slab — Four men, one wall, by hand

Framed walls standing on the finished pad with a telehandler alongside — Walls up on the finished pad

A telehandler setting a long beam across the open bays of the frame — Setting the beam over the bays

The garage frame standing with both bay openings clear — Frame up, bays clear

Log purlins being set along the top of the sheathed wall by two of the crew — Log purlins going on

The long sheathed wall of the garage under the single-pitch roof line — Sheathed and dried in

4 · The crew that built it

Eight of the Worthnest crew lined up along the edge of the finished slab — Slab finished — the crew that poured it

The crew lined up inside the framed garage beneath the beam they set — Inside the frame they raised

One crew, one season, no handover — the same men in every photograph on this page. That is the reason a Worthnest job doesn’t sit waiting on somebody else’s machine.

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