Woodworking Quiz For 5/4/04

[Ralph Jones]

Greetings Again Mates,
I went to the library to see if I could find some information that would help me learn your ways and methods because, I have noticed that to be a good teacher I must first be a good student.
Even at almost 70 I am still willing to learn something new.

I did get some conversion charts that I feel will help me with some of the quizzes.

Todays quiz is about those pegs that they use for pinning the post and beam joints together.They do have a name that is different than just a peg. Can you name them?

This originated from England many years ago. Good luck.

Respectfully,

[bitingmidge]

Ralph,

Thought I'd get in first this time!

Are you referring to trunnels (from Tree-Nails) often used to hold boats together?

(There were heaps of them in Bass's Cutter!)


P

[journeyman Mick]

BTW, in Danish the same word "tree" (same pronunciation as in English) is used for trees and timber. As the vikings settled many parts of the British Isles it may be how the word "treenail" entered our language.

Mick

[Tonz]

A true timber frame strucure, called "post and beam" by some, is the result of the ancient art of combining large timbers (cants) through mortise & tenon joinery secured with wooden pegs (trenails).

[Driver]

Originally posted by journeyman Mick
BTW, in Danish the same word "tree" (same pronunciation as in English) is used for trees and timber. As the vikings settled many parts of the British Isles it may be how the word "treenail" entered our language.

Mick

It probably also explains why the term "treen" is used in the English antiques trade to describe wooden kitchen tools and equipment.

Col

[ozwinner]

Looks like no one want to play any more. :eek:

Al

[Shane Watson]

When is someone gunna have a go at the date? Its all wrong!!

Mwahahahah...


Down here as you now no doubt realise we do things different and well that goes for the way we write dates too...we write them - DD/MM/YYYY......

Cheers!

[DavidG]

The only way to write the date is

yyyy/mm/dd

That way it always sorts correctly when used in file titles.

[Ralph Jones]

Good Evening Mates,
By my watch and according to Sydney time it is around 8:46 PM.
Since there is a question as to how the dates should be written I shall go with any one way you blokes desire but you have to make up your minds as to how you want it written.

I am now going to answer todays quiz for 5/4/04. Those pegs as
biting midge pointed out are indeed called trunnels or (tree nails) that the vikings used to hold their ships together as they explored England many many years ago.

Then as time went along they used them in post and beam construction.

Thank you for your support in these quizzes. I will post tomorrows quiz around 4:00 PM my time today so you will have them in the morning by 05:30 or so.

Respectfully,

[journeyman Mick]

"......that the vikings used to hold their ships together as they explored England many many years ago......."
Maate! Think I'll go and explore!
I don't think the people living in English coastal villages (or a lot of other coastal villages) would've used the term "explore" to describe what the vikings were up to

Mick

[Ralph Jones]

Hey Mick,
How does plunder sound? From what I have read about viking history that was their main goal and go home with riches from their work.

[Bob Willson]

How about rape, pillage plunder and murder sound. They were not nice people. In fact they were the mafiosa of the early years.

[RETIRED]

To Guest.

We don't entertain Politics on the Forums.

[bitingmidge]

Oh no!
Was that THE guest?

the one that reads private messages???

:eek: :eek: :eek:

cheers,

P

[guest]

Jam it , you had better remove references to Vikings (and all other Scandinavians) and Italians, Sicilians and anyone related to them.
Prat