Lath Render Maker?

[melm]

Hi,
         I am curious to know what this occupation was, I worked all my life in the timber/building trade and seem to sense that it may be something to do with preparing laths on ceilings and walls ready for the plasterer to plaster onto, I may be totally wrong, any ideas?
melm

[dennford]

Surely he was the forerunner of today's plasterer?
                                            Denn

['Tricia]

Lath Renderer:  Applied the first coat of plaster on wall & ceiling). (Plasterer's assistant

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/l.html

Presume this is the one

Tricia

[melm]

Many Thanks, especially for the web page.
Regards, melm 

['Tricia]

Was thinking about this earlier - he must have made the render that the Lathe Renderer used in the first coat.

Plasterer's assistant's assistant

Tricia

[Romilly]

Hi there,

My G/Grandfather was a Pale Render in East Grinstead...

I had assumed that this meant that he made, (rended) palings for fences, etc.

I'm wondering now, - having read this thread about Lath Rending...(Or perhaps he was just naturally pale... ).

Any ideas welcome,

Cheers, Romilly.

[runner]

Hi Romilly

You will have seen these wooden fences where each stick has a wire round it which is twisted a few times before the next stick is fastened in?
The wood is rough and is just a branch which has been split in a cross into four pieces the guy who splits  (rends) them, as you thought . In Scotland we call them 'palings'

He was probably red in the face from too much rending in a hot English sun!

I think they had a special tool a bit like a machete to split these branches. Can't remember what is was called? I know in my home village they used branches from chestnut trees for fencing.

Russell

[dennford]

It was called a froe.

                                   Denn

[runner]

Thanks Denn

They struck it with a maul. Or as we pronounced it 'maul'

Russell