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In several published interviews, Jack noted that one of things of which he was most proud, was that year in and year out, he probably had the largest hand-split wood pile in the county; and he was the one who split it.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Perfect Lawyer — Herbert J. “Jack” Miller, 1924–2009 2009

It had stucco walls and small hand-split shingles that conformed to the shape of the roof, curving around eaves and openings in a sensual resemblance of straw thatch.

The 10 Best Houses in the Hamptons 2001

The house had a hand-split cedar shake roof, small windows, large, heavy doors and a wide front porch, While the Spencer place ran around a thousand. head, the Schuyler spread could support four times that number.

Wyoming Territory Merritt, Jackie 1997

It also draws attention to the difference between the hand-split shingles of those days and the machine-sawed ones of the present.

The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Charles Gilbert Hine

The little house was likewise a victim of the prevailing necromancy, for its rough, hand-split and weatherbeaten shingles were now a shimmering olive-silver.

'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson

He was housed with thirty other men in a bunkhouse of hand-split cedar; he labored every day felling and trimming tall slender poles for piling that would ultimately hold up bridges and wharves.

Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

You will notice the hand-split boards, or shingles, made with a frow and hand mall: You will also notice the old-fashioned chimney.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1918

It was built of logs and roofed with rough cedar shingles hand-split on the spot.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905

Its walls were of undressed pine logs, and it was roofed with cedar shingles hand-split.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905

Early in their marriage Myrtle and Leslie built their first house of hand-split boards from two old-growth fir trees lying on the site of their "new house."

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