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Simple split-rail fence Log fence with double posts (photo taken in 1938). A split-rail fence, log fence, or buck-and-rail fence (also historically known as a Virginia, zigzag, worm, snake or snake-rail fence due to its meandering layout) is a type of fence constructed in the United States and Canada, and is made out of timber logs, usually split lengthwise into rails and typically used for ...
A wattle fence at an outdoor museum in Poland Wattle hurdle or panel A wattle hurdle being constructed on a frame. Wattle is made by weaving flexible branches around upright stakes to form a woven lattice. The wattle may be made into an individual panel, commonly called a hurdle, or it may be formed into a continuous fence.
Wattle and daub in wooden frames. Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is ...
A stair, or a stairstep, is one step in a flight of stairs. A staircase or stairway is one or more flights of stairs leading from one floor to another, and includes landings, newel posts, handrails, balustrades, and additional parts. [4] In buildings, stairs is a term applied to a complete flight of steps between two floors.
A wooden stile in Esha Ness, Shetland. A stile is a structure or opening that provides passage for humans – rather than animals such as livestock – over or through a boundary. Common forms include steps, ladders, or narrow gaps. [1] Stiles are often built in rural areas along footpaths, fences, walls, or hedges that enclose domestic animals ...
Weaving on a floor loom, using a beater that swings, suspended on a heavy wood frame. A reed is part of a weaving loom, and resembles a comb or a frame with many vertical slits. [1] It is used to separate and space the warp threads, to guide the shuttle's motion across the loom, and to push the weft threads into place.
The system was developed in 1934 [1] [2] by George H. Gascoigne and his colleagues in Reading, England for making cows' milking stalls. [2] It was advertised to industrial chemists in 1944, [ 3 ] marketed in the UK in the 1950s as a cattle control system, [ 4 ] and used for storage systems in factories in the 1960s. [ 5 ]
Wooden and iron altar rails in St Pancras Church, Ipswich. The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, [1] [2] from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.