FM 5-426 Carpentry
U.S. Department of the Army (mirror: constructionknowledge.net; also archive.org/details/FM5-426)
Practical framing, layout, concrete forming, roof framing, and finish carpentry from scratch with hand tools — directly applicable to post-disaster repair and rebuilding.
Editor's notes
1995 edition, superseded in the Army by TM 3-34.47 (2013, near-identical content — also public domain, on armypubs). Not code-compliant guidance for permitted civilian construction; frame as reference/emergency skill content.
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