ridge pole

"I got to get that ridge pole fixed," Al said.

The logs became the ridge pole and the central pillars of the church.

The building includes an 85-foot ridge pole and front doors that weigh 500 pounds each.

Above him on the ridge pole, the little bird sat in the sun, and above her rose the white mountain.

Gunn was moved to the roof and tied to a ridge pole.

That night Al stole a fence rail and made a ridge pole on the truck, braced at both ends.

They piled the mattress on top of the load and bound the tarpaulin in place over its ridge pole.

Longer models might have an additional upright pole in the centre to help support the ridge pole.

A sturdy forty-foot beam joined them, forming the ridge pole of the roof.

Carpets covered the ground, and tapestries, hanging from the ridge poles, gave the illusion of being in a solid building.

Although there is no odor in the attic, I discovered that the roof stringers and the ridge pole have mold on them.

They normally have a single upright pole at each end with the tops joined by a horizontal ridge pole.

Some models have a horizontal ridge pole joining the tops of the end poles to support the centre of the tent.

The roof has a heavy 1og ridge pole with simple lumber planking covered with earth.

And the dried bundles of twigs and leaves, hanging in ordered lines from the cord along the ridge pole, were his also.

Sarah Rourke licked her lips, getting up from the fire-blackened ridge pole of the destroyed barn, fallen now.

It was the usual two-story fake adobe with make-believe ridge poles sticking out through it at the roof line.

He had looped his belt around his neck and was standing on a box, reaching for the ridge pole of the tent when they found him.

A small wood hatch leads to the attic, where the sawn rafters of the roof have skip sheathing and no ridge pole.

"First chance I git I'm gonna fin' a long plank an' make a ridge pole, an' put the tarp over that.

Ludwig Leichhardt in 1844 saw the remains of a camp showing the signs of white men through ridge poles and steel axes.

Silhouetted above the ridge poles, he could just see the top of a square tower which doubtless belonged to Sir Yve's hall.

The only other sculpture is a rather mundane carved wooden dove from the late 19th century that once topped the ridge pole of a Kansas granary.

It rests on four poles, with two long, narrow poles, fixed in sockets, mounted in tandem fashion, serving as a single ridge pole.

The absence of large support beam, ridge poles, or a hearth in Sears's report indicated to Larson that the structure excavated was not an earth lodge.