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"You'll need to read a book or two and buy a few hundred $ of chisels."

There is a third way ... timber framing with steel column caps and timber connectors, etc. ... steel plates from Simpson that you connect with lag or through bolts.

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But see the recent discussion of the failure of a bridge in Norway which used wood beams connected by steel elements -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33907276

But it's also a shed, not a bridge.

The simple solution is to not repeatedly drive a dump truck over your shed.

“I think I see the problem here.”

“It’s a shed, not a bridge” is a great engineering slogan.

Both are fine for bikes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

Yeah, though this would greatly increase the expense over the chisels, I'd think. For my build you need one 1.5" and one 2" chisel (I have Sorby, ~$125 each), though a 2.5" slick is nice to have. And then some sharpening stones.

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