Woodstave

As Daube is called the longitudinal timbers, from which ( also referred to as cooper, cooper, Kübler, Fassler, in Bavaria coopers ) in the historical construction, a wine or beer keg, a vat, a vat or a stave shell composed a cooper.

Staves are brought by steam bending process in the typical curved shape and held together with tires today are mostly made of steel.

Cooper coated up in the 1980s in the - dry - Südoststeiermark the raw oak planks outdoors up to 12-15 m high, 6 - to 12 - square conical towers on. Below this, a segment, a cross was left open as a piece hatch, inside each floor inlaid with two boards to climb inside stock to be higher with a short ladder. When reaching up the boards from floor to floor, the children helped with. The drying of 2-4 cm thick boards took about 2-3 years. Today, wood is dried in air-conditioned chambers. The traditional construction of a stave tower is maintained by Cooper Hütter in Gnas today.

The Graz Resanita artistic duo has built as a contribution to the exhibition in the Galerie Graz rotor 2014 -height section of a barrel stave tower.

Previously staves were probably used by disused barrels as a simple ski. Stave races in different places of the Alpine countries make fun of this tradition. With sturdy hiking boots you slip in bolt-on loops of textile strap, leather or rubber on the front, rounded staves, is driven by one or two simple wooden stick, often in historic or carnival clothes.