Camb Builder

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:24 pm

Just to add reinforcement to Russell's lateral storey

In building, a camber beam is a piece of timber cut archwise, or with an obtuse angle in the middle, commonly used in platforms, as church leads, and other occasions where long and strong beams are required.

A camber beam is much stronger than another of the same size, since being laid with the hollow side downwards, as they usually are, they form a kind of supporting arch.

Who knows?....

Best wishes
Jean

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:13 am

Russell

Over her in Oz we would say either:

A six pack short of a carton

or

he's got some roo's loose in the top paddock

Post by **SarahND** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:14 am

StewL wrote:Over her in Oz we would say either:

A six pack short of a carton

or

he's got some roo's loose in the top paddock

When I was teaching in Southern California the students would say, "One taco short of a combination plate"

Sarah

Post by **emanday** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:23 pm

Don't know if it is any help, but I found someone described as "Reed Maker & Camb Builder". Typically, it gave no explanation, but reed makers are mainly listed in Google as those who make reeds for musical instruments.

Again, may be way out here

, but somewhere at the back of my mind is the thought that a Camb was a term used to describe a "holding frame" that an item was cradled/clamped in while being worked on.

Could this wee lassie have been preparing such things for a musical instrument maker?

Added later - The modern term for such a tool would be a Jig

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:39 pm

Hi Mary

You have struck gold there. Reeds were used in weaving and would need to be held in a frame to assemble.
Names for the various parts vary from one place to another. I wonder if this is an East Coast name ?

Russell

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:54 pm

If I may be permitted to put an oar in here, being a reedmaker myself to a certain unavoidable extent, there were IMHO barely the numbers of woodwind or bagpipe players to justify many makers of those types of reeds.

Weaving seems to me a much more likely justification for this employment.

Good to see that resolved!

Guid hunting,

Thrall

Post by **emanday** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:38 pm

So being a mine of useless information CAN come in handy after all

(apart from being phoned by freens n rellies taking part in pub quizzes

)