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Re: historic hewing questionnaire [Re: Dave Shepard] #30537 04/14/13 01:16 AM
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hello everyone tonight

Thanks Dave for the comment, that is what I am trying to do entertain and at the same time try and put forward items of interest, that might be useful to someone out there.

I sure realize that the whole process that we went through to present a full accurate display is complicated to say the least

Preserving this type of data for future generation is challenging-- not just a physical building, but the basics of its construction, and I am going to tell you that when you follow the whole process through from start to finish it is quite an experience, but once reaching its conclusion and seeing what you have created is beyond description.

What I hoped to achieve was that maybe 100 years from now someone could visit UCV or its vault and retrieve information to reconstruct faithfully an identical structure

enjoy

NH

Re: historic hewing questionnaire [Re: northern hewer] #30547 04/19/13 01:02 AM
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hello everyone tonight

Well I would just like to let you all know that my mother Maurine Casselman, who I mention once in a while in some of my remembrances of yesteryear, and times gone by, passed away peacefully at the age of 101, she was a Gem for sure

Richard

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Please accept my condolences Richard.


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Re: historic hewing questionnaire [Re: Dave Shepard] #30551 04/19/13 02:29 PM
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My Prayers are with you,

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Re: historic hewing questionnaire [Re: Jay White Cloud] #30552 04/22/13 01:35 AM
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Peace to you and yours...


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Re: historic hewing questionnaire [Re: Craig Roost] #30573 04/27/13 01:57 AM
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hello everyone tonight

Thanks everyone for your condolences, I sure appreciate it, will be busy for a few days so take care everyone and I will return as soon as I can

NH

Re: historic hewing questionnaire [Re: northern hewer] #30603 05/07/13 06:42 PM
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Hi there! I am new to Timber Guild though the company I represent is not.
We are about to start work on a huge historic project that involves 45 000 bf of hewing. We need some help at our shop on Vancouver Island. I was pleased to find this thread of conversation and wondered if you are networked with anyone that might be interested. I'd like to post something but cannot figure out how.
Could you help me out?
Margaret
Macdonald & Lawrence Timber Framing Ltd.

Re: historic hewing questionnaire [Re: mcormode] #30606 05/08/13 10:33 AM
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Hi Margaret,

What kind of help do you need?

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jay

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There are probably more reasonably experienced hewers in North America now, than there has been in the last 100 years. The Guild's project in Poland trained a bunch of (mostly) college students that worked on the project. The ones that I've met came off the project pretty psyched on hewing. I'd contact the Guild office and/or Handshouse Studios to try to get in touch with some of them.

I'd say that you probably also want to set some hewing standards, because you can get very different finishes from different approaches and axes.

Re: historic hewing questionnaire [Re: timberwrestler] #30636 05/15/13 12:32 AM
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hello everyone tonight

well I am working my way through things here, quite an experience for sure, but i guess that is life isn't it?

As I reminised over the last few weeks about times gone by, one of the many great things that comes to my mind was coming home from school each day and being met at the door by my mother who was always there in the kitchen ironing and listening to the battery operated radio--I thoroughly wish that more children in today's world, could have the same opportunity.

That could have been said for alot of things though like the sound of the grain binder as it cut and bound the sheaves of grain, the sound of the corn cutter cutting the sheaves of corn, but talking about this in particular, as a child too young then to join the threshing or silo fillng teams, I would stand by the tractor that was driving the machine by means of a 100 foot endless belt, and listen to the motor moan and groan as it responded to the governor- straining to try and keep the machine's speed constant--this was important because if the speed fell too far there was the danger of plugging the delivery pipes running up the side of the wooden silo--you will notice I said wooden silo, no concrete slabs then, just various types of wooden ones around--as a child I was mesmerized by the sounds and commotion around me

I remember quite well one day as the men were unhooking the horses for noon that one tug became entangled spooking the team, and they bolted in circles completely destroying the wagon in front of our eyes, luckily no one was hurt

I remember another time when we were threshing and working late one night, and the farmer rounded up his milk cows after dusk, as they approached the barn they spooked and they never found them till the next day in the bush

any way i got to go--nice to be back

NH

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