Harness

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The harness are the tools that a carpenter uses to tie and assemble.

The harness is also the tool that a carpenter took with him on the roll .

It usually consists of:

  1. Carpenter hammer or claw hammer
  2. Chisels (also chisels or chisels)
  3. Knocking wood
  4. Thrust ax
  5. Ax or hatchet , traditionally the federal ax
  6. Angle iron
  7. Frame saw (also clamping saw)

In individual cases, a compass was also part of the harness. It was used less for constructing circles than for transferring measurements that the foreman specified with his yardstick on the construction site or at the joinery .

literature

  • Johannes Wetzel: Timber framework: Investigations into a historical timber construction, its peculiarity and development and the preservation of still existing buildings. expert verlag 2003, ISBN 3-8169-2243-0 , p. 198.