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  • Thumbnail for Timber framing
    Timber framing (German: Fachwerkbauweise) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures...
    91 KB (10,840 words) - 15:13, 18 May 2024
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    Log driving (category Timber rafting)
    timber, because it floated well. But hardwoods were more dense, and weren't buoyant enough to be easily driven, and some pines weren't near drivable streams...
    14 KB (1,744 words) - 20:11, 14 July 2023
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    and clearing of creeks to allow loose logs to float better. The earliest spring log drives floated up to 20,000,000 board feet (47,000 m3) of logs in Pine...
    20 KB (2,275 words) - 15:15, 5 March 2024
  • or timber industry (sometimes lumber industry -- when referring mainly to sawed boards) is the industry concerned with forestry, logging, timber trade...
    50 KB (6,415 words) - 13:46, 5 June 2024
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    Sawmill (redirect from Timber mill)
    South Carolina, using logs floated down the Pee Dee River from the Appalachian Mountains. In the 20th century the introduction of electricity and high technology...
    21 KB (2,520 words) - 07:17, 25 May 2024
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    was fueled by the local timber industry. More recently it has drawn tourism related to the novel series Twilight and films of the same name, set in Forks...
    32 KB (3,233 words) - 23:55, 2 June 2024
  • Gilmour Lumber Company (category Timber industry in Canada)
    Company was one of the giants of the Canadian timber industry. Their involvement in lumbering began modestly in the 1790s in the area of Glasgow, Scotland...
    15 KB (2,014 words) - 02:02, 12 January 2024
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    Raft (category Timber rafting)
    have a superstructure, masts, or rudders. Timber rafting is used by the logging industry for the transportation of logs, by tying them together into rafts...
    6 KB (738 words) - 02:28, 30 April 2024
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    narrower cut, without risk of breaking and being entrapped in the bone. A precursor of the chainsaw familiar today in the timber industry was another medical...
    40 KB (5,184 words) - 01:24, 31 May 2024
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    Beetles are used in jobs such as timber framing to shift the bases of large wooden posts, to fit joints, to drive in pegs, to split wood or rails. Dead...
    8 KB (886 words) - 17:32, 23 January 2024
  • Voiture (TPV), a proposal of Pierre Michelin - he brought in André Lefèbvre, who had designed the front-wheel-drive system of the Traction Avant and was...
    272 KB (39,664 words) - 05:58, 27 May 2024
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    Circular saw (redirect from Worm drive saw)
    practical for sawing timbers until they were powered by steam engines. They are either left or right-handed, depending on which side of the blade the plank...
    16 KB (2,196 words) - 13:50, 4 May 2024
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    railroad to assist logging crews in pushing timber into the east bay of Houghton Lake. The logs were floated across the lake into the draining Muskegon...
    12 KB (967 words) - 18:28, 31 October 2023
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    Log flume (category Timber rafting)
    drives the rollers. This arrangement works well with heavy railroad crossties or mining timbers.: 405  Loose lumber in a "dumper" pile. A bundle of lumber...
    16 KB (1,893 words) - 16:13, 3 April 2024
  • chain. In 1975 it was merged with timber company Southern-Evans to form Magnet & Southerns. In 1984 it was floated on the London Stock Exchange. In 1985...
    195 KB (26,142 words) - 21:14, 5 June 2024
  • The following is a list of episodes for the YTV animated series, Kid vs. Kat that ran from October 25, 2008, to June 4, 2011. The series was produced by...
    42 KB (128 words) - 03:24, 23 July 2023
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    Sage came up with the idea of a canal to float logs from the Black River to supply the mills of Lake Simcoe. The Rama Timber Transport Company was formed...
    13 KB (1,246 words) - 09:21, 28 April 2024
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    Mullumbimby (category Geographic Names Register of NSW not in Wikidata)
    allowing logs to be floated down the river to its mouth at Brunswick Heads. The town's central location gave access to most of the catchment area, and...
    22 KB (2,242 words) - 11:21, 7 June 2024
  • This is a list of Academy Award–nominated films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface...
    509 KB (271 words) - 19:45, 2 June 2024
  • This is a list of episodes for Traders, a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1996 to 2000. The show...
    70 KB (131 words) - 13:19, 30 March 2024
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