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A single KEVA Plank A tower made from KEVA Planks. KEVA Planks are cuboid wooden block toys. Each block is sized approximately 1 ⁄ 4 by 3 ⁄ 4 by 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (6.4 mm × 19.1 mm × 114.3 mm). The blocks are available for sale in maple, that is produced in the United States, and less expensive imported pine versions. [1]
Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.
A plank used in a building as a horizontal supporting member that runs between foundations, walls, or beams to support a ceiling or floor is called a joist. The plank was the basis of maritime transport : wood (except some dense hardwoods ) floats on water , and abundant forests meant wooden logs could be easily obtained and processed, making ...
A plank road is a road composed of wooden planks or puncheon logs, as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground. Plank roads have been built since antiquity, and were commonly found in the Canadian province of Ontario as well as the Northeast and Midwest of the United States in the first half of the 19th ...
The jointer derives its name from its primary function of producing flat edges on boards prior to joining them edge-to-edge to produce wider boards. The use of this term probably arises from the name of a type of hand plane , the jointer plane , which is also used primarily for this purpose.
The formwork is commonly built from wooden planks and boards, plastic, or steel. On commercial building sites, plastic and steel are gaining popularity as they save labour. [27] On low-budget or small-scale jobs, for instance when laying a concrete garden path, wooden planks are very common. After the concrete has set the wood may be removed.