Originally Posted By: Housewright

Don, I do not recall seeing boards pinned to framing but it was common to pin floor planks to joists and vertical wall planks to sills/girts/plates. One type of rafter foot is cut flat without a tenon and a 2" trunnel installed through the rafter foot into the tie beam.

Jim



Hey Jim...

So have you seen boards pinned/pegged to framing? Sills and girts and plates are framing members. Has anyone else seen heard of this? What kind of building was it Jim, and how old...where?

I too have seen the 2" trunnel on the end of a rafter. One of the barns had a rough winter here and the snow snapped one of the major rafters. The carpenter putting it back to gether remarked about the "huge dowel" pinning the rafter to the crosstie.

Tim:

Those definitions are interesting. I wouldn't have thought there were so many forms of each word.

I don't really have a preference what we call pins/pegs... but like I said before, "pin" sounds metalic:

hinge pin
cotter pin
split pin
wrist pin
hat pin
saftey pin
pin the tail on the donkey!


Will, that photo is typical of what I see here in Maine as well. And neat video.

Don Perkins
Member, TFG


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