[Bell Historians] Saw Pit Frame

[Roderic Bickerton]

I bow to the distinction, but never say never, you know how varied towers are in shape and load capability, better than me.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matthew Higby & Company Ltd, www.bellhangers.com 
  To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:33 AM
  Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Saw Pit Frame






    parallel pits do not fit the maximum bells in 
    the minimum space, H frames or the L&G set up 
    with isolated bearing towers on a massive 
    grillage do that.


  You must have more experience of designing frames than me! :-)

  Design of framesides is one thing - layout is another. The Chawton frame has lowside parallel pits with bells 1&6, 2&5, 3&4 mouth to mouth. They have gallows ends to allow the bells to swing as close to the wall as possible. The bells wouldn't fit in any other layout - I tried very hard to get bells swinging in 2 directions, but failed to to get a workable layout.

  Matthew



             
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