Alan Zoff Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I am looking for someone to supply me with an iron tie bar to fit between the walls of my house, complete with "S" plates. I assume I can commission these from a local blacksmiths but I would be grateful if someone could tell me the French terms for these items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Bar à cravat?[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 'entrait' or 'la tige d'ancrage'Try your nearest steel stockholder/engineering shop. They can get you a 6m bar max, and thread it for you. and if you have a local forge they may also be worth a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAiffricaine Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 [quote user="Alan Zoff"] ... complete with "S" plates. I assume I can commission these from a local blacksmiths .[/quote]If you are commissionning the end plates then why keep to the 'S'. Have your own initials. My grandfather bought his house in the 1920's and did a big 'ravallement' on it at that time. The house was built in the 1860's. It had one of these tie thingy with end plates which he changed to have his wife's initials at one end and his at the other end. It was dead posh and showy to do that in their kind of farming/agricultural background. He died in 1983 and the house got sold in 1992 on his wife's death and no one in the family thought of taking these initials out and replacing it with just a square non descriptive bit of iron ... which is exactly what the buyer did when he carried out his own 'ravallement' and threw away these lovely monograms ... Sad ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave&Olive Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 hi ok When I put mine in they called them " Le Grand Crux " Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 Thanks for the comments.I just tried Googling "le Grand Crux", Dave, but the only relevant hit was your post on here! Perhaps it's a fairly local term. (For some reason, Google thought I must have meant "Grand Cru"....)But I think I have enough info now to approach a supplier with relative confidence.Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave&Olive Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 hi ok do a search for " tirants " on this site Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 Excellent.Thanks Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Always seems a pity to me that people seem to lose all sense of imagination when they place plates, crosses, essses, etc on tie bars.A notable exception is the main tower on the mairie in Narbonne where majestic medieval pikes or halberds adorn the wall.Indeed the possible existence of tie bars is completely disimulated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 " Le Grand Crux " - I wonder if there is a dialectal link to the English mediaeval "cruck" beams which were the main beams holding up a house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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