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  2. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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    Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue. The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber. Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands of ...

  3. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    Many historic hand tools used by timber framers for thousands of years have similarities, but vary in shape. Electrically powered tools first became available in the 1920s in the U.S. and continue to evolve. See the list of timber framing tools for basic descriptions and images of unusual tools (The list is incomplete at this time).

  4. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Timber framing, historically called a braced frame, was the most common method of building wooden buildings in America [2] from the 17th-century European settlements until the early 20th century when timber framing was replaced by balloon framing and then platform framing in houses and what was called plank or "joist" framing in barns.

  5. Boring machine (carpentry) - Wikipedia

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    Traditional timber framing in North America went into a slow decline after the invention and spread of balloon framing (1832) and what was called plank framing in barn construction in the mid-to-late 19th century. Combined with electrification of hand-held tool carpenters, boring machines became obsolete.

  6. Mortiser - Wikipedia

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    A chain mortiser used in timber framing. For cutting larger mortises such as those used in timber frame construction, chain mortisers are commonly used. A chain with cutters (similar to a chainsaw chain) rotating within a frame clamped to the work is successively plunged into the workpiece to mortise out the required volume.

  7. Traditional trades - Wikipedia

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    Modern timber framers incorporate new technologies, like the circular saw shown here, to increase productivity and reduce labor costs and time. Traditional building trades commonly include masonry , timber framing , log building , traditional roofing , upholstery , carpentry and joinery , sometimes plumbing , plasterwork , painting ...

  8. Frame saw - Wikipedia

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    The blade is held perpendicular to the plane of the frame, so that the material being cut passes through the center of the frame. Frame saws for use with wood are rip saws operated as a hand saw or powered in a sawmill. Frame saws used for cutting stone were powered saws in stone mills. When used for different purposes, a frame saw may have ...

  9. Whipsaw - Wikipedia

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    A whipsaw or pitsaw was originally a type of saw used in a saw pit, and consisted of a narrow blade held rigid by a frame and called a frame saw or sash saw (see illustrations). This evolved into a straight, stiff blade without a frame, up to 14 feet long and with a handle at each end.

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