The lower crosspieces should also have grooves cut in them to hold the side boards of the compartment.
Illustration] The tenons and mortises are first cut for the crosspieces at the bottom of the posts, and, as it is best to use dowels at the top, holes are bored in the bottom piece and also the ends of the slats for pins.
Nail the old shoe soles to crosspieces [Illustration: Made from Barrel Staves] placed one-third of the way from one end as shown.
The crosspieces are made from hickory or ash and each piece is 2-1/2 in.
A good way to make a camp table is to set four posts into the ground and nail crosspieces to support slabs cut from chopped wood logs to form a top.
Keep the ends of the crosspieces back from the edges of the boards far enough to allow the end boards to fit in against them.
One of the top crosspieces should have right-hand and left-hand threads or be fitted with a union.
When each pair of legs are fitted to a pair of crosspieces they will form the two supports for the bench.
One of the narrow sides can be formed in the same way, fixing the crosspieces on to correspond, and then these three pieces can be fastened together by screwing the two wide sides on the narrow one.
Fasten the front top board to the crosspieces by lag screws through from the under side.
There are two crosspiecesto aid in keeping the sail properly opened.
The brads are then removed, the glass piece as shown by the dotted lines put in, and the leads around it held with brads until the crosspieces are put in and soldered.
These frames formed by the crosspieces should be braced by diagonal wires as shown.
The flooring being placed on the under side of the crosspieces makes it possible to get the sail boom very low.
One of the sides with the crosspieces in place will be as shown in Fig.
Turn the flooring and crosspieces upside down and fasten to the pontoons with long 5/8-in.
A block of wood is fastened on top of each pontoon and exactly over each spreader on which to bolt the crosspieces as shown in Fig.
The outer end of the pin is carried on a piece of wood extending the full length of the box and [Illustration: Wheels Fastened to the Box] supported by crosspieces nailed to the ends, as shown.
A number of slanting crosspieces are fitted in, crossing each other, so as to form a hollow bed in which the carcass lies, with the ropes under it, by which it can be moved and drawn out.
These crosspieces protect the sheet iron bottom and keep the carcass from resting upon it.
The gate-post is fastened to the logs by crosspieces of board running horizontally from log to the post, and these are enclosed inside the stone pier so that they are concealed from view.
I shall hook my feet under these crosspieces to brace myself.
But, if I break off the shingles around the peak of the roof, here at the very end, you will have a better chance to climb out, then, because you will have the exposed crosspieces to cling to.
But the crosspiecesto which the shingles are nailed are close together," Captain Folsom objected.
The upright pieces in the back are fastened into the crosspieces by means of tenons and mortises, and should be in place when the crosspieces are fastened to the legs.
The upper corners on the ends of both crosspieces are cut sloping on a 45-deg.
Also square up the crosspieces marked B in the detail drawing.
For the table make your crosspieces about twenty-two inches long, nail them ladder-like but close together on two poles, and make this table top flat on the surface by covering it with birch bark tacked on smoothly.
If there is a damaged part, that side is removed by sawing the crosspieces of the table in two and attaching it to the wall against the leaf which is turned in a reverse position.
The front and rear parts, between the end and the cross-strings E and F, are covered with yellow tissue paper, which is pasted to the crosspieces and strings.
The crosspiecesare also rabbeted to receive the reversible back and allow it to be moved back and forth horizontally.
These are fitted in the main frame and securely fastened to the end crosspieces B.
The bridle string is attached on the centerpiece A at the junction of the crosspieces B and C, and must be adjusted for the size and weight of the kite.
These blocks are fastened to the upper crosspieces at the ends of the frame.
The crosspieces and knees are made with the blocks and the 1-in.
With the addition of some crosspieces in the main frame at the front and a motorcycle engine fastened to them so that the driving sprocket will be in line with the sprocket on the coaster hub, the builder will have a real cyclecar.
The location of the crosspieces on the centerpiece A is shown in the sketch, the front piece B being 1-3/4 in.
The next step was to secure the vertical poles withcrosspieces between them which were used later for supporting the siding.
Two pins or hooks are attached to one of the crosspieces to catch into the film end.
These pieces are further braced with a wire at the back, and crosspieces are screwed both on top and under side, to make a rigid guide for the sliding pencil holder.
This was made with four or five crosspiecesthat determined the fullness or fineness of the bottom of the canoe toward the ends.
The posts for setting the height of the gunwales at the ends and at the crosspieces were not cut off square at the top as for the Malecite canoe, but were notched on the outside to take the gunwales.
The bark is given a good wetting with boiling water to make it flexible and elastic, so that the pressure applied to the battens by the temporary crosspieces brings the bark to the shape desired for the canoe.
These, sometimes tapered slightly toward each end, are fitted with crosspieces with halved notches in each end to fit over the top of the battens.
These strips were held apart in the required shape by cedar crosspieces 1 inch wide and 1¾ inches deep, with the ends notched ¾ inch deep (the depth of the longitudinals) and the tops well rounded.
In the case of a house built for defense, the number of supports and crosspieces is such that the enemy would find it impossible to hack it down.
Either rattan strips or pieces of a peculiar vine[5] are used in lashing the beams and crosspieces to the posts, whereas for the other fastenings, rattan strips are universally employed.
A pair of screw eyes were now threaded into the backbone at each side about 18 inches from the end, and at each end of the crosspieces an eye bolt was fastened.
The runners were now placed over our larger canoe, with forward ends about on a line with the mast, and the crosspieces were fastened with screws to the gunwales.
We spaced them apart about 28 inches, and connected them with four crosspiecesat the top.
As an additional security, a pair of crosspieces were now run under the canoe at each end and fastened with screws to the keel.
A B frame was now hauled out to one of the towers and lifted by its narrower end, with fall and tackle, until its lower tie piece rested on the projecting ends of the center crosspieces of the tower.
Crosspieces and upright panels compose the frames of doors, and the squares in windows, which in Manila are of seashell, are covered with paper in Japan.
The supports to which the floors of the scaffolding rest are bamboo poles, and the crosspieces and other material used to work on are held together by rope, no nails being used.
Intersecting the spaces made by the panels and crosspieces are smaller pieces of lath, which form three-inch squares in the window.
When the front and back are made all there is to do to finish the frame of the house is to put in the crosspieces to hold them together.
To turn a corner all you have to do is to push the toothpicks which form the upper and lower crosspieces of a new section in at the back of the top and bottom peas of an end section of the fence.
When not in use a loop on the handle was dropped over the end of one of the forward crosspieces of the komatik, and its lash trailed behind in the snow.
Resting upon crosspieces nailed to the rough beams overhead were half a dozen muzzle loading guns, and some dog harness hung on the wall at one side.
On the top of these upper crosspieces is laid a piece which extends to the nose of the kaiak.
On the ends of the crosspieces is laid a second rail which prevents them from rising and serves to strengthen the ends of the ribs, which are set alternately with the crosspieces of the keel.
The upper rails are held apart bycrosspieces of different lengths, according to position.
Crosspieces notched at the ends separate the bottom rails and are steadied in position by being notched so as to sit on the square keel.
To the right and left of the screw are beams, with crosspieces fastening them together at both ends.
The crosspieces with their tenons have the length of.
The upper strips are to be equal to the lower; the crosspieces of the "table," one half of a hole.
In the interior of this tympanum there are eight crosspieces set at intervals, extending from the axle to the circumference of the tympanum, and dividing the space in the tympanum into equal compartments.
In these crosspieces are holes sheathed with iron, and into them pivots are introduced, and thus the screw is turned by the treading of men.
These crosspieces have vertical lines drawn upon them, and there are plumblines hanging from the straightedge over each of the lines.
The four crosspieces are fastened to the legs by means of tenons and mortises.
The end slats are joined to the crosspieces in the same manner.
The legs can be assembled in pairs with the slats and crosspieces in place.
All davits and stanchions, all uprights and crosspiecesare provided with hooks and rings, so that hammocks, when necessary, may be attached to them.
The poultry roost upon the crosspieces immediately under the roof.
Spike the crosspieces on to the legs and on to the piece nailed to the wall, as shown in Fig.
Cut three ten-inch planks, six feet long, and spike them to the crosspieces so that they project twelve inches over the ends, but are flush with the framework in front.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crosspieces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
