Sentence examples for heavy timber from inspiring English sources

The Gloire's iron plates were about 4.5 inches (11 cm) thick and backed by heavy timber.

They cut and assembled wood to form the bridge's decking, and built and installed heavy timber cribs to protect its footings from ice and driftwood.

Excluding the independent garden variety, the nonbearing wall appears only where loads are carried by other members, as in heavy timber and other skeletal structures.

A typical modern land-based lifeboat is either steel-hulled or of double-skin, heavy timber construction; diesel powered; and equipped with radio, radar, and other electronic gear.

The vertical piles are held in place by horizontal framing members that are constructed of heavy timber, steel, or a combination of the two.

In older installations, in which the basins were relatively small, the dock structure was built mainly of massive stonework, or in a few instances, heavy timber framing.

The interior is neat and trim, but it appears that none of the Japanese décor has survived -- except for a heavy, timber-style stair baluster topped with large brass finials.

In the balloon frame system, traditional heavy timbers and complex joinery were abandoned.

"We have streams that have all kinds of heavy timbers, logs and trash," Mr. Jelacic said.

Freed from the heavy timbers of the post-and-beam system, platform framing offers ease of construction.

The support may be supplied by shoring the wall with heavy timbers sloping upward at about 65° to 75°.