Bridge-Ramp-Help

[Jim_Rogers]

DanG: Thanks for the link to Harbor tools. And that's a good price. I saw one of these recently at Home Depot and it was a Millers Falls brand, they wanted $269 for it and had a whole stock of blades. I asked the tool guy if it could cut wood and he showed me the blades, and they were 14 tpi (teeth per inch). The one with Harbor freight has 16 tpi and I couldn't find any replacement blades on their site.
For $79 plus shipping I might get one for an experiment and get blades from Home Depot.
I'll have to do more research on this first and see if it will cut wood. I'll go to Home Depot and talk to the tool rental guy and see what he thinks.
Jim Rogers

[Furby]

On one of the older shows of This Old House (I think it was TOH anyways  : ) they used a portable bandsaw to cut beams with. Looked like it worked real good from what I remember.

[L. Wakefield]

   I just went to HD today and spent a great hour or so (as DanG said, 'plundering around'- it would be blundering except that you keep picking up plunder.. A-las, you must pay for it at the end- but it is fun..)-

   I looked for a portable bandsaw but they just had the little free-standing ones- portabke but not hand-held. I ended up getting the wood I was after and a reglur skilsaw along wit a few extry blades.

   Now am I the only twisted sister who gets 4 carbide tip blades in her hand and starts to wonder if they'd make good weapons?? Anyone care to admit if they've tried chucking a nice sharp blade at the wall and if so, did it stick in? Course I don't want to treat a *new* blade that way (which is why I'm asking if *you* tried it  :D :D :D ..) and I bet an old one wouldn't be as apt to stick. I can already tell you a) I'd want gloves on and b) you'd have to have it right way around in your hand to get the teeth headed in to getting a good grip, sotospeak. Otherwise it should be kinda like a frisbee with teeth, knowhutimean, Vern? Could be right up there behind nunchaku.  ;D  lw

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Here's some good logs for the "Bridge beams"  We gots LOTS of 'em. Can't believe Y'all don't grow 'em where ya need 'em. ;D ;D :D :D

[etat]

I'll take the two on the left, and the one on the far right!!!

[Fla._Deadheader]

Ya want 'em barky or sawed up nice & neat ??? ;D ;D ;)

[etat]

Probably couldn't afford your prices ;D ;D :-/  Finally got the tile laid in the first bathroom.  Wouldn't been so bad but the wife wanted everything laid with patterns in it.  Soo, I wound up cutting up a bunch of big pieces of tile into strips and little pieces to mix with the big pieces.  Then took a diamond grinding wheel and buffed the sharp edges before installing.  Slowed things down, a lot. . Been plumbing it last night and today with pex. That too is new to me but it gives you a little more flexibility than sweating copper. Of course no matter how many pieces you buy you still have to send to town after the odd piece or two you didn't count on. Example. Cut the hole for the toilet, guess what, centered  a floor joist.  So, had to trim it down a few inches, then brace and reinforce it back to original strength, and then go get an offset toilet flange to get by where I trimmed it.   Getting ready to run some sewage line, that I dread.  But don't have to go too far, I'm going to tie it in to the existing septic tank.  The day will come that I will  have my beams,  even if I have to hew them out with an ax. : : : ;D ;D

[etat]

Hey Florida, the wife want to know more about why the crooked trees and what makes so many of em grow that way in one place.  Is it high winds, or ??.......

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Beats me??? That's the way I found 'em. : : ;D

  The area where they grow is the heart of the Floral Fern growing area. The ones that Florists use. The ferns grow in the shade.

  Could be because the trees are a distance apart and they are shooting for the sunlight ???

[L. Wakefield]

   So as I was driving home yesterday the trees were having fun with me. For some strange reason ALL the curved ones stood out- especially after I saw the first 1 or 2 and remembered this thread. Some were nicely outlined by a skift of snow on the curve to make them that much plainer. Made me wish I had cuttin rights and a mill right there to try what you were writing about. Coulda had a few bridge timbers.

   It was right after I passed a (fairly bogus) arched bridge over an arificial pond to an artificial island. Seemed like the trees were saying they could do it better..

   I realized if I were going to build a bridge the first thing I'd do would be to load the potential timbers with a weight equal to or exceeding what I expected them to bear once installed. It's a heck of a lot easier to bust down onto the ground than to fall 6-8' .. lw

[beav]

I bet if i tried i could cut that curve with my woodmizer.I can cut curves without trying.Slow feed,turn the handwheel (on my oldy}slowly as i go......follow the line. Both beams at once....yeah ;D