"soup" wrote in message
. uk...
flash wrote:
I have a large pile of wood outside that is hopefully going to become
an allotment shed, following the demise of my previous much loved
item : http://www.flashgorman.com/shed.jpg

Naturally being an allotment shed I want to build it for absolutely
no money at all and the wood I have is all scavenged FOC.

This policy has left me lacking some big fence post type bits of wood
to make up the four corners of the shed. I do have some thick timbers
but they are all three foot long, so what I want to do is join them
together somewho to make six foot posts.

Anyone know the best way to do this? All the joints I have seen are
for joining stuff at right angles.

Or maybe there is another way of doing it?

A slight improvement on the half-and-half joints mentioned ( IMHO ) is to
cut the two square faces ( actually they will be rectangular ) you will have
on each joint as 45 degree chamfers, sloped in such a way that if you hold
the two pieces of wood together and then try and bend them at the joint, the
chamfers themselves resist the joint bending. Then glue and screw, using
cramps. It is difficult to describe, and
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Andy