The carpenter's and joiner's hand-book : containing a complete treatise on framing hip and valley roofs ... (1888)
Holly, H. W. (Henry Wells) · New York : John Wiley & Sons · leaf 52
height of a tree. I. \ Fig. 40. Suppose you want a stick of timber 30 feetlong, and want to know if a certain tree willmake it. Measure o£E from tlie tree (Fig. 40), HAND-BOOK. 47 thirty feet on a level from where you willcut it down, ten feet back at set upyour ten-foot pole; let some one hold… … Let etc. (Fig. 41), show the floor beams,being different distances apart. Snap a lineat G to nail the bridging by, then snap an-other line at &, the distance from the 48 THE CAKPENTER& deptli of the timber. Lay a piece of bridg-ing stuff (d) on the timber, and mark it onthe under side by…
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