The cabin is notable for its original roof construction, which consisted of peeled logs laid along the pitch of the roof, culminating in a log ridgepole.
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Knowing about the impending attack and the incident of the cracking of the ridgepole of the sod roof of Hanrahan's saloon where Tony and Doug were staying, they caused the cracking themselves by shooting at the pole.
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Visser 1913 : 101 ), " The " ch'i-wen ", which like swallowing, are placed on both ends of the ridgepoles of roofs ( to swallow all evil influences ) ."
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At two in the morning on June 27, 1874, the ridgepole holding up the sod roof of the saloon made a loud cracking sound, although two men nearby thought that it sounded like " the report of a rifle ".
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One wing clipped the ridgepole of a tent on the field and the plane then swept two young women and two naval officers off the roof of a nearby hangar, from where they had been watching the flight, contrary to Beachey's wishes.
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Then come the connecting girts and plates, and then the lifting of the beams for the galleries, and the high beams, the putting up of sleepers, planks and boards, rafters and purlins, and, last of all, the ridgepole.
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The total length of the Cathedral is 364 ft .; the width at the transepts 170 ft ., the width of nave and aisles 90 ft ., and the height to the ridgepole 120 ft . When it was built, the cathedral could hold close to 4, 000 parishoners, but due to the expansion of the altar area and the fact that people are no longer comfortable to be squished like sardines into a church, is now permitted to hold over 2, 000 people.
