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Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical background, folklore, alternative technololgy, and humor, he provides both a source of general information and a detailed introduction to traditional woodworking. Beginning with a guide to trees and tools, The Woodwright's Shop includes chapters on gluts and mauls, shaving horses, rakes, chairs,...
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With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter...
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For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, The Woodwright's Shop, has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture.Beginning with the standing tree, each chapter of The Woodwright's Guide explores one of nine trades of woodcraft: faller, countryman and cleaver, hewer, log-builder,...
9) Cranes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes how cranes work, how they are used to lift materials for construction, and the different types of crane machinery.
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Monkey with a tool belt series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Clever monkey Chico Bon Bon builds lots of things with his many tools, and when he is captured by an organ grinder, he uses them to help him escape and get back home.
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Monkey with a tool belt series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Chico the monkey wakes up to a loud clatter, he puts on his tool belt and searches his tree house to find what is making the noise, only to discover Clark the elephant stuck in the laundry chute.
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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3 videodiscs (ca. 570 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This is a show about Tim Taylor and his family. Tim has his own television show called "Tool Time", so the main theme of each episode often revolves around cars, toys, tools, hardware shops, garages, fix-it-up projects, and other similar themes.
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 598 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sitcom revolving around Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor who has his own television show "Tool Time" and his family. Season five contains episodes in which Tim lets an honorary degree go to his head, Jill's success in school leads her to begin doling out psychiatric "help", and Tim must make a stand when his new boss tries to replace Al.
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Construction equipment has long been a favorite of little readers and D is for Dump Truck takes children on an A to Z exploration of a fun backyard construction site. With bouncy poems for each letter and a glossary in the back, this book brings the thrill of construction up close and personal.
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
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3 videodiscs (ca. 561 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Television series revolving around Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, who has his own television show "Tool Time," and his family. In this season, Tim attempts to break Bob Vila's steamroller record, Jill's wild sisters visit to plan their parents' 50th anniversary, Jill drags Tim to couples therapy, Tim has "the talk" with Brad, Jill's father dies, and Tim delivers Heidi's baby in a gas station.
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