The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1867)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 322
Fig. 2T4. Fig. 275. 427.—Fig. 274 is a proper joint for a collar-beam in a smallroof: the principle shown here should characterize all tie-joints. The dovetail joint, although extensively practised iuthe above and similar cases, is the very w^orst that can be em-ployed. The shrinking of the timber,…
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