Useful Techniques from Other Countries
What tools or techniques from other nationalities do you think could be useful in the <!—-><!—-> <!—->United States <!—-><!—->? <!—-><!—-> <!—->
Much is known in the United States about Japanese hand tools, and even a little bit about Japanese techniques, but what about other countries? Japanese carpenters are known for their joinery. <!—-><!—->Germany <!—-><!—-> is known for its quality. However, are there tools or techniques that are specific characteristics of German carpenters? Are there tools or techniques that carpenters in <!—->Ireland<!—->, <!—->Australia<!—->, <!—-><!—->Belgium <!—-><!—->, or wherever are known for?
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I'm finding myself signing on just wondering what off the wall topic you'll want to discuss next.
Masonry Heaters from Finland, a technique non carpentry.
Scaffold building in the orient-using lashed bamboo.
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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You mean this?
Whoa!"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing..."
That's about what I said when I looked up!
This one needs to be rotated 90 degrees to the right, but you get the idea. The bamboo is actually lashed.
Yessir, that's scaffolding erection at it's finest.
And as the Jouneyman would know-carpenter work. Could be time for those guys to take the refresher course.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
A good topic. I bet we think we know it all but could learn a lot.
Scaffold building in the orient-using lashed bamboo.
Not just in the orient. The first North American Peace Pagoda, built by the monks and nuns of the Nipponzan Myohoji order of Buddhists and many American volunteers, was blown with gunnite from a lashed stick scaffolding that surrounded and surmounted the entire structure.
It was something to see the Buddhists in their saffron robes directing the construction. Reverand Kato Shoni (below) was the construction supervisor.
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Where is that?
Leverett, Massachusetts
useful tecnique from other countries, hire mexicians
Masonry design and building from the Mediteranean locales.
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A lot of new Australian architecture uses interesting passive strategies to cool their houses, Not just building building the same subdivision house everywhere and adding an air conditioner if it's in a hot region.
And Eric Paulson is right. We do really cr#p tile work compared to the Med countries.
I still don't own a lam trimmer. Do it the same way - it's how I learned
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I've seen a furniture builder/carpenter in some third world country who sat in the alley with a home made knife, crude saw, and held everything with his feet, not having a work bench.
Perhaps more americans should hold things with their feet? I donno.
Beer was created so carpenters wouldn't rule the world.
The first time I went to Egypt, I saw an auto bodyshop in Cairo, where an entire car had been sprayed blue - glass, trim, weatherstripping, everything.
A little boy was starting his job - to scrape off all the overspray with a single-edged razor blade - he was cheaper than tape and masking paper!
Forrest
The masons I saw working in Germany got to drink beer on their breaks. Europeans seemed just fine with moderate use of alcohol on the job (I was there 20 years ago).
They seemed to do very good work...never saw anyone drunk though.
I was in Bavaria, and beer is one of the four food groups there.
I've noticed in most English detective shows the cops have a pint at lunch.
I bet close to half of all workers in Europe have a drink with lunch and think nothing of it...the paradigm is entirely different in that regard.
Well a good half of the workers here on Vancouver Island are baked all the time. So maybe the paradigm isn't quite as different as it seems...
Yes - and this is where a lot of half-baked ideas come from? ;o)Jeff
They seemed to do very good work...never saw anyone drunk though.
I worked a summer for BMW at one of their assembly plants in Munich. In addition to the availability of beer at lunchtime, there was a little "Spaten" truck that came around at breaktime, and a number of people enjoyed beer on a regular basis.
I remember one Bavarian guy in particular who literally had a liter mug of beer next to his work station every day. He told me that Ein Mann ohne Bauch ist wie eine Frau ohne Busen (A man without a beer belly is like a woman without breasts). ;)
For 99% of the time, there was no apparent problem whatsoever. But you have to see things on the last day of the production year (just before August, when the plant shuts down for retooling). Lots of people were pretty drunk that day, and I even saw a few minor accidents.
...and beer is available on the shop floor in Mercedes factories there.
Go to Amazon.de and do a search on "zimmerei"
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Wax, from Brazil, now there is technique.
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We have a winner.
And all the forms. Inverted. Landing strip. Bowtie. Possibilities are, well, ok, maybe not endless. Real trucks dont have sparkplugs
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You didn't qualify that this was about construction techniques.
I think that Russian advances in poisoning, torture, and imprisonment are worthwhile topics for study.
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...you could always check out http://www.bestofyoutube.com episode 306 for a German technique.