There are still areas in the world where lashing spars (or bamboo poles) is the basic means of building structures. Even today with all our modern ways to hold things together, it is still fascinating to lash sticks or spars together to make a camp gadget or useful structure.
We could imagine the first lashing made by man was wrapping a few strips of bark around a stone to hold it to a tree branch to make an ax to hunt and build with. Peschke as presented in the 1998 printing of the 1993 edition of the Pioneering Merit Badge Pamphlet: Putting it neat like John Sweet: Use a sheer lashing “when two spars are to be opened out like scissors to make a pair of sheerlegs,” or right to the point like John Thurman in Pioneering Projects, the sheer lashing is “used for lashing together two parallel spars which will be opened out of the parallel to form sheer legs.”What are sheer legs? Simply put: sheer legs are two upright spars lashed together at the tips with the butt ends splayed apart to support some kind of weight.The following text and some of the drawings are by Adolph E. References to the lashing in John Thurman’s Pioneering books, in John Sweet’s Scout Pioneering, and the Lashing section in the Pioneering Merit Badge Pamphlets by Pioneering Legend Adolph Peschke all describe its fundamental use exactly the same way. Scouts Lash the Tops of Their Shear Legs with a SHEAR LASHING to Begin Their Single A-Frame BridgeDEFINITION: ambiguous amˈbigyoōəs adjective(of language) open to more than one interpretation having a double meaning unclear or inexact From the 1981 Printing of the Pioneering Merit Badge PamphletOne Thing is NOT Ambiguous! The shear lashing’s USE is quite clear. As Gerald Finley says: “THE STIFFNESS OF THE TRIPOD LASHING DEPENDS ON THE NUMBER AND TIGHTNESS OF THE WRAPPING TURNS.” Two Half Hitches = a Clove Hitch!OBJECTIVESA. For many projects, the wraps can be made with simple plain turns in lieu of racking turns, (as in what’s often referred to as the Figure of Eight Lashing). In larger projects, two tripods can support a crossbar as in a swing set, or support two parallel lateral spars for a platform as in the.The Tripod Lashing with Plain Turns is a simple and quick way to lash together three spars into a tripod. It frequently comes into play in the construction of simple campsite improvements as in providing a stand to hang a lantern or water bag, and in our favorite First Class Camp Gadget: the.
Tripod Lashing With Plain TurnsThis is the sixth post in a series that will eventually comprise an activity-based, unit pioneering program curriculum.SUPPORTING VIDEO:VI. The tripod is the most simple and most easy to erect self-standing pioneering structure.
0 kommentar(er)
