Cost-effective and adaptable, pole buildings are the perfect solution for tool sheds, barns, or even summer homes. Low-Cost Pole Building Construction focuses on designs that provide good wind resistance with minimal grading and no need to excavate for a foundation. With full plans for a number of sample buildings that include a solar cottage, garage, and woodshed, you'll be able to quickly and effectively build the structure you need while saving both money and time.
Wood Technology & Processes, Student Workbook (Wood: Technology/Processes)
Includes worksheets keyed to each chapter in the Student Edition, as well as worksheets keyed to safety practices. Provides additional woodworking projects plus science and math activities. Student edition sold separately.
The Site Manager's Pocket Guide to Timber Frame Construction
by Taylor Lewis and Robin Lancashire
Audel Carpenter's and Builder's Layout, Foundation, and Framing (Audel Technical Trades, #22)
by Mark Richard Miller and Dr Rex Miller
Here's knowledge you can build on. Whether you're building a storage shed or your dream house, the same principles govern choosing a site, setting the foundation, erecting the walls, and putting on the roof. This handy how-to guide has been totally revised and updated to cover new building materials and the latest techniques in construction and framing. It's where to find answers and solutions, from the first stake to the last roofing nail. With the help of this guide you can: choose an appropri...
Cabins, Cottages and Summer Homes (Classic Reprint)
by Bernard Sterling Mason
All woodworkers worth their sawdust know that joinery - good, bad, or indifferent - tells the unvarnished truth of how well a piece is made and how skilled the maker is. As a result, joinery is always a hot, and sometimes controversial, topic because even the masters will agree that there is no one right way to do it. Over the decades, no one has proven better at teaching readers how to make beautiful, enduring joinery than Fine Woodworking. This comprehensive and practical book demystifies the...
Simply Board Feet: The Definitive Guide to Lumber Calculation
by Douglas E. Maxwell
Hand Hewn: The Traditions, Tools and Enduring Beauty of Timber Framing
by Jack A Sobon
Hand Hewn is a fascinating and inspiring tribute to traditional timber framing by one of today’s foremost expert architects and practitioners of the craft. In this highly visual book, internationally renowned builder Jack A. Sobon weaves his personal history of learning about the craft with its 2,000-year-long history. Sobon begins with the story of how he fell in love with what was then a little-known building technique and how he eventually became the “Sherlock Holmes” of timber framing. Throu...
