I never thought much of connecting girt (CG) framing because they are common in my experience in New Hampshire and now Maine. I live almost half way up the coast of Maine, and there are quite a variety of framing styles here including both common rafters and common purlins and more.
Will, I have been looking at historic lumber terminology lately and have realized how language vaires by location and time just like framing styles. I have never heard the terms dap or butt purlin before.
I have formed the opinion that frame science, like natural science, will eventually need scientific (Latin?) terminology for clear, global communications.
I would be interested to know the details of the earliest known CG frame.
Jim
The closer you look the more you see. "Heavy timber framing is not a lost art" Fred Hodgson, 1909
