Herman Windolf was the first ordained Baptist pastor to come from Germany to minister to the scrub Germans in the Fassifern Valley of South East Queensland. This book is primarily translations of reports Herman sent home to Germany for publication in Christian magazines. They covered his journey through Hamburg to Brisbane and the journey to Fassifern Scrub and the start of his ministry. The book is supplemented by furher documents from the Queensland Baptist Historical Society relating to the early German Baptist churches.

There has been an increasing use of architectural timber battens in Queensland, and indeed Australia wide, over recent years and while they can certainly look excellent when first installed, they have the potential to be a maintenance nightmare. Following the failure of a high profile batten project where one fell to the ground, it needs to be recognised that there is the potential in a people occupied space for litigation. When researching the subject I came to the conclusion that while these concerns were valid, they did not have to be the accepted consequence of using timber. If some basic...

My frustrations experienced trying to sell trouble free, low maintenance bridges has prompted me to write this book so standards will be raised. This book is intended to assist the following: Footbridge purchasers: Footbridges can and do fail and the best time asset owners have to address that risk is at the time of purchase. This book will, in part, give guidance to the asset owner on preparing the specification and so avoid shortcomings that have been seen in some kit bridges. Professional designers: My intention is not to teach you how to engineer the structure. This book will allow you to...

This book on timber fencing is intended for professional designers whose clients require fences of a higher standard than a typical domestic fence can be. It will allow repeatability of high quality, not easy to do when you are specifying in an area where there are no standards. The book taps into the author's lifetime of experience specialising in high quality public timber infrastructure.

This book looks at the origins of timber joints and fasteners and plots their development up to the present day. It looks closely at guidelines for using stainless or Galvanised fasteners and gives guidance on detailing external joints. The book contains a number of case histories of buildings with different joint types.

This book contains a number of sermons preached at Tent Hill baptist Church, the church in the potato field. These cover a variety of subjects but if there is an overall theme it is that our heavenly father can be trusted.