Radford's cyclopedia of construction; carpentry, building and architecture. Based on the practical experience of a large staff of experts in actual constrcution work (1909)
Johnson, Alfred Sidney, 1860-, Radford, William A., 1865- · Chicago Radford Architectural Co · leaf 192
w piers aspossible exposed to the current. Such piers asare exposed should be made massive, wellfounded to prevent sliding, and shaped to ob-struct the current as little as possible and de-flect the logs or ice that may be thrown againstthem. For this reason, piers have their longdimension parallel…
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