List of timber framing tools

Illustration of carpentry (charpente) in the French Encyclopédie 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.

Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands of years. Similar tools are used in many cultures, but the shapes vary and some are pulled rather than pushed.

Preparing timbers

Marking and measuring tools

Tools for marking out and measuring:

Hand powered cutting tools

Powered cutting tools

Splitting tools

A Froe is struck with a mallet to split blocks of wood into rough sizes for making pegs. Large and long timbers are split (riven) with wedges

Holding tools

Material handling tools and equipment

Tool maintenance

Tools require sharpening and replacing handles.

Access

Safety

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/21/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.