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3rd November 2017, 09:33 AM #1GOLD MEMBER
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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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3rd November 2017, 09:00 PM #2
Column? What's the timber John?
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3rd November 2017, 09:33 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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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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4th November 2017, 03:07 AM #4
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4th November 2017, 06:31 AM #5GOLD MEMBER
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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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4th November 2017, 03:08 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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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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5th November 2017, 12:29 PM #7
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.
HJimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)