Woodland Crafts in Britain: An Account of the Traditional Uses of Trees and Timbers in the British Countryside |
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Page 61
... upright shoots . These he then lays , by cutting them half through with a downward stroke of his billhook , so as to detach them , partly but not wholly , from the base of the rootstock out of which they spring ( 62 ) . But in so doing ...
... upright shoots . These he then lays , by cutting them half through with a downward stroke of his billhook , so as to detach them , partly but not wholly , from the base of the rootstock out of which they spring ( 62 ) . But in so doing ...
Page 95
... upright posts , to hold the cross - bars . Each post is fixed in a peculiar frame or break , formed of two short upright posts bearing two cross - bars at slightly different levels , with a third upright appropriately set in the ground ...
... upright posts , to hold the cross - bars . Each post is fixed in a peculiar frame or break , formed of two short upright posts bearing two cross - bars at slightly different levels , with a third upright appropriately set in the ground ...
Page 138
... upright boarding , and the next with horizontal weatherboarding , whilst the steeple is clad with oak shingles . Its great oak piers , hewn from single tree trunks , are braced by curved beams , and strengthened at the foot by huge ...
... upright boarding , and the next with horizontal weatherboarding , whilst the steeple is clad with oak shingles . Its great oak piers , hewn from single tree trunks , are braced by curved beams , and strengthened at the foot by huge ...
Contents
WOODLANDERS | 1 |
TREE FELLING AND TIMBER HAULING | 5 |
THE CRAFTWORK OF TIMBER CONVERSION | 12 |
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