Wood Construction and Design: Andrew′s Cross Principle

The first wood construction principle was the Andrew′s Cross. The first Andrew′s crosses where installed on the top of mountains where herding below was dangerous as warn signal 7000 years ago. You rammed to crossing wooden posts in the ground and fixed them with a flax or hemp rope, the only available fastening material at the late Stone Age.

Even nowadays it is a good idea if you look for "value for money". A good example is the wooden andrew′s cross parapet produced by SKANHOLZ: in Douglasia, standard 170 cm from post to post for 300 Euro (seen at www.obi.at).

If you prefer local timber, any good local carpenter can deliver it in Larch perfect taylored to your post span for let us say 500 Euro. If you are not used in mounting parapets I would strongly recommend you to give the Carpenter another 200 Euros for doing this job.

If a family member doesn′t like the rustic design style of Andrew′s Cross you can face the parapet with wooden slats. In this case, the Life Cycle of your parapent is prolonged from 50 years to 500 years.