Hewing floor

A hewing floor was the open working area, usually in or near the carpenter's yard, where logs were squared into beams with axes and adzes. Medieval carpenters worked green oak, which was easier to cut and joint than seasoned timber, and many timbers were split along the grain rather than sawn. During the 12th and 13th centuries carpenters increasingly used squared timbers, mortice-and-tenon joints and bay framing, and frames could be laid out and trial-assembled in the yard before erection.

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'Hewing floor' is a descriptive term rather than a named medieval building; most evidence for yard practice is later medieval.

Sources: fet.uwe.ac.uk · medievalists.net

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Hewing floorfrom any timber (oak timber, ash timber, elm timber and 7 more)

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Hew an oak beamgives Oak beam, Oak bark, Firewood; from Oak timber; with any axe (axe, billhook), Adze; at hewing floor; by carpenter
Hew a great oak beamgives Great oak beam, Oak bark, Firewood; from Great oak timber; with any axe (axe, billhook), Adze; at hewing floor; by carpenter
Hew a common beamgives Common beam, Firewood; from any timber (oak timber, ash timber, elm timber and 7 more); with any axe (axe, billhook), Adze; at hewing floor; by carpenter
Hew a rough beam with stone toolsgives Common beam, Firewood; from any timber (oak timber, ash timber, elm timber and 7 more); with Stone hammer; at hewing floor
Rive planks with wedge and hammergives Common planks, Firewood; from any timber (oak timber, ash timber, elm timber and 7 more); with any hammer (stone hammer, iron hammer); at hewing floor

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