Hooke Park material passport
Granularity: item · still unworkedStill unworked. Held piece by piece because the most demanding use so far proposed for these forks, the forked supports of the Wood Store platform, would depend on the geometry of each piece. A finer level can still be measured again and entered under a new date.

HP-26-F06

Beech fork

Uncovered, elsewhere on campus No QR tag fixed yet

Photographs

Photograph 1
Photograph 2
Photograph 3
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Identity and source

What it is
Beech fork
EObserved by eye
Quantity
1
MMeasured
Where it is now
Uncovered, elsewhere on campus
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EObserved by eye
Woodchip Barn number
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Locating holes and machined faces
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Where it came from
RReconstructed from photographs or remains
NodeWhat is knownSource
Standing beech at Hooke Park, surveyed photographically204 trees surveyed, felling yielded 25 usable forksDone by others, to be checked
Woodchip Barn, 201620 of the 25 were built into the truss, each matched to a positionDone by others, to be checked
DismantlingNothing was recorded: not how many forks came back, not where they were stackedDone but not recorded
Lying near the old Woodchip Barn siteLocation learned from the tutor and the foresterReported, unverified
Retrieved by telehandlerMeasured
Dormant pileClassified by locating holes and machined facesReconstructed from photographs or remains

Condition

Dimensions and geometry
Not yet recordedTo be supplied by: Zhirui Zhang
Moisture content
Stable enough that no kiln drying was needed before use
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MMeasured
Rot and defects
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Visual assessment
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Photographs
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Processing

2016
Photographic survey of standing trees and felling
Basis
204 standing beech surveyed; felling yielded 25 usable forks
What changed
Tree to fork
Result
One of the 25
?Done by others, to be checked
Not yet recorded
Retrieval
Basis
Location given by the tutor and the forester
What changed
Moved from beside the old Woodchip Barn site to campus
Result
Dormant pile on site
SReported, unverified
Not yet recorded
Photogrammetry
Basis
Each piece modelled from every side while still unworked
What changed
Nothing removed
Result
Model of this piece
MMeasured
Not yet recorded
Moisture content measured
Basis
Across the pile while it lay sheeted by the sawmill shelter
What changed
Nothing removed
Result
Stable; no kiln drying needed before use
MMeasured
Not yet recorded
Condition survey
Basis
Rot and open cracks read from the scan models and photographs, checked up close
What changed
Nothing removed
Result
Dated condition
EObserved by eye
Not yet recorded
Classification by locating holes and machined faces
Basis
A first set of holes and no milled faces means one of the five the publications name as unused (08_A03, 08_A13, 10_E01, 10_E07, 11_A29); two sets with milled faces means one of the twenty built; no holes at all means the piece is not from the Woodchip Barn
What changed
Nothing removed
Result
Attribution for this piece
RReconstructed from photographs or remains
Not yet recorded
Moved for a campus event
What changed
Pile cleared from the sawmill shelter
Result
Now uncovered elsewhere on campus; earlier values keep their dates and the present state is not yet re-measured
EObserved by eye

Annotation

7 entries carry a source; 9 cells are blank, each with its kind of gap and the person who would have to supply it.

Sourced
granularity, location, moisture, origin_chain, quantity, wb_confidence, what
defects
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dimensions
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geometry file
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location date
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machining state
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moisture date
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photos
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visual note
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wb fork id
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Model

Photogrammetric model
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What this piece has been

The Woodchip Barn's making is documented down to the individual fork, but the documentation was never attached to the material: no fork carries its number. Every one of the twenty-five was drilled with a first set of three locating holes before scanning, and the twenty that went on to the robot bear a second set and milled end faces. Those traces are what classify this piece.

Woodchip Barn · one of the twenty-five forks felled for the truss · 2015-2016
Position in this project
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to be printed
HP-26-F06
https://passport.orbiting.cc/p/hp-26-f06

Background and further reading

This is general research on tree forks. It is not an assessment of this piece.

Mollica, Zachary, and Martin Self · 2016   paper

Source of the 204 / 25 / 20 counts, the locating holes and milled faces, and the published elevations of the 25. Values taken from it are inherited from another project's record, not produced here.

Mollica, Zachary · n.d.   portfolio

p. 60 names the five forks that were not used: 08_A03, 08_A13, 10_E01, 10_E07, 11_A29. No publication year; the public link is still to be recorded.