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give the needed stability, little or no support coming from 

 the siding or sheeting, it was necessary to use large timbers 



Fm. 147. 



and to frame them together and brace them very securely 

 making a structure costly both in material and labor. 



417. Plank Frame The high price of lumber has led to 

 an effort to imitate the construction of the old hewn timber 

 frame barn in the construction of essentially the same type 

 of frame but using plank spiked together instead of tim- 

 bers. This type of frame is represented in Fig. 147. 



The frame so made is strong and not as expensive as one 

 of heavy timbers at the present prices but it is neither aa 

 simple in construction nor as cheap as a frame for most 

 barns can be made. Now that the conditions which made 

 the heavy timber frame a necessity have disappeared there 

 is no need of imitating it by splicing lumber. 



418. Balloon or House Frame. The reason for not ad- 

 hering to the old type of barn frame is because it permits 

 of no advantage being taken of the inherent strength of the 



