March 14

• Today i started marking all the angles and measurements for my saw horse. I first marked the angle that was going to be used on the joint connecting with the leg. Ratio of 2:6 (20mm length wise and 60mm width wise). I then marked the angle for the joint on the base of the saw horse and cut multiple lines in between the lines marked the width of the leg and then smashed the sawed lines till they broke off. Then chiseled the joint till the surface of it was flat and squared. Getting a sharp edge of the joint i was shown to hammer a straight piece of timber to the back of the base of the saw horse and line it up with the 2mm depth line as a guide to prevent cutting to much of the edge off.

• In the classroom we were taught to follow the steps of how to start constructing a building at site and step by step we learnt how to get straight lines/equal sides by using the 90 degree angle. Profiles, Datums, Boundary Lines, Batter Boards. This was so that we had an idea of what and how we are going to be working and how we should think when we are planning to build before we start and when we start building. I found the whole thing confusing as we wrote info from the book but when i was visually shown step by step on the board by computer of what to do before you start building and what to do when you start planning and building i started understanding it more clearly and was getting clued onto what we were shown.

- Identifying boundary lines - Where your going to build
- Determine ground conditions - foundations - contours - the floor of the land - quantities - soil removal
- Checking for service - telephone, pipes, gas - if not sure contact service providers
- Verifying the location of building
- Setting out profiles, brace, mark building line on the batter board - squaring off the longest side.
- All lines are at right angle - marked with 3, 4, 5
- Check(use of diagonals) for correct dimensions, square, level(batter boards, datum).
- Mark building lines on ground.

• Then after that we splitted up into our little groups of three to carry on answering the questions on our poster. We finished sketching the title and a picture of a piece of timber and managed to finish both drawings and printed off the information we search for to answer the questions we were given.