WES Evaluation for CANADA IMMIGRATION. By cnugadu, December 26, 2017 in Discussions
List of timber framing tools. Illustration of carpentry (charpente) in the French EncyclopÃ©die showing hewing, mortising, pit sawing on trestles. 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.
Logs are converted into timber by being sawn, hewn, or split. 1  Sawing with a rip saw is the most common method, because sawing allows logs of lower quality, with irregular grain and large knots, to be used and is more economical. There are various types of sawing: