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.
1 Conversion of logs into timbers was often done by someone other than the timber framer including a lumberjack, sawyer, farmer, or laborer using a variety of tools including: 2  Whipsaw types of rip saws used in the conversion of logs into timbers in a saw pit.  felling, carpenter's, and broad axes are used in hewing.