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General Forestry => Timber Framing/Log construction => Topic started by: Jim_Rogers on March 05, 2008, 05:45:11 PM

Title: I can't understand this?
Post by: Jim_Rogers on March 05, 2008, 05:45:11 PM
What's in a name?

In high school, I took geometry, and:

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10095/Triangle_square_2s.JPG)

these shapes were named.

However this shaped tool:

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10095/Speed_Triangle_s.jpg)

is called a speed "square."

It isn't square at all.

If anything this is more a speed square:

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10095/BigAl_s.GIF)

But to be technical it really should be called a speed rectangle.  ;D

From now on, I'm going to try and change the name of this:

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10095/Speed_Triangle_s.jpg)

to speed triangle....... :D ;D



Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: Dave Shepard on March 05, 2008, 05:57:48 PM
Then what would you call a framing square? Two very long skinny rectangles joined at right angles. :D I always wondered what was so speedy about a speed square triangle anyway. ;D


Dave
Title: beat by dave
Post by: Loghead on March 05, 2008, 06:02:31 PM
Jim I would agree, :D and my framing square should be an framing L its not square atall unless you have two then its a rectangle?????  :) :) :)
Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: LeeB on March 05, 2008, 06:32:26 PM
You fellers weathered in today?
Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: Radar67 on March 05, 2008, 07:06:42 PM
It's called a speed square because carpenters use it to speedily guide their Skil saw squarely across the end of a board.  ;)
Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: ljmathias on March 05, 2008, 07:10:04 PM
Sounds like too much time on their hands alright.... Wait till Jim makes it down to Southern Mississippi and has to put up with us naive, waiting to be educated timber framers in the making- no extra time then.

I always thought it was called a speed square because you could whip it out of your toolbelt, mark something and slide it back into a side pocket really fast.  The square part?  I would have thought that was obvious- it's an adjective or a verb, not a noun.

Lj
Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: Radar67 on March 05, 2008, 07:13:30 PM
I'll make sure I bring my squarangle by to let Jim have a look at.  :)
Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: Don P on March 05, 2008, 08:46:50 PM
I guess this was taken  ;D

Great Neck® Squangle (Square-Angle)

And then I've heard guys call them that, or that's what I handed them  :D.
Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: shinnlinger on March 05, 2008, 08:51:05 PM
I though the speed square had to do with it's ability to very quickly mark almost any angle you wanted....
Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: Tony on March 05, 2008, 09:42:21 PM
       My 7yr old just asked me the other day, why the triangle was called a square  :D :D  I'll tell him that somebody is working to change the name.

                        Another problem solved by the FF.

                              Thanks,    Tony   8)
Title: Re: I can't understand this?
Post by: Raphael on March 06, 2008, 10:42:57 AM
When working with a transit, I call that triangle thing a 'plastic Jesus', because it will stand up and show you the way.  Otherwise I call it useless.   ;)
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