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    Default Because we can.!

    Dunno about small timber milling: it's sitting on an 8x8.

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    Shed building at the sawdust factory. I run a sawmill not a foundry, don't see any point in building with steel.

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    Column? What's the timber John?
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    Yup that be one of my posts. 350x250 turpentine. Hand rubbed oil finish bringing out the beauty of the grain while preserving the contrasting sapwood.

    Well I thinned some 15w40 with diesel and slopped it on with a mop. See I am learning this woodworker speak.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John.G View Post
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    Hand rubbed oil finish bringing out the beauty of the grain while preserving the contrasting sapwood.

    Well I thinned some 15w40 with diesel and slopped it on with a mop. See I am learning this woodworker speak.
    so you're not trying to retain the natural fire retardant properties of the raw wood?
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    Its way hot here atm... oil will slow moisture loss so they don't split like watermelons

    Never gave fire retardation a thought not that it matters. 1/8" of oil finish on a beam that size will have as much bearing as an oil based paint on an asbestos fiber wall. And it's all angels dancing on the head of a pin anyway...there'll be 100 ton of fuel load stacked in there. .. wood will burn, steel would melt, and no insurance company will touch it either way.

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    Onwards and upwards or whatever. Dad doing another of the million and one jobs he does to keep this show running. Big with some scale aren't they?

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    I remember reading somewhere.
    If the beam is of big enough dimension it will char only and keep supporting the roof etc.
    Steel softens and bends/collapses.
    H
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