My new client and Quarry update

[teakwood]

took out the form boards and they turned out nicely. i like them, clean organized and hidden. there will be a concrete lit on top with a stainless steel roundstock handle .

[Peter Drouin]

I did the same thing at my house. Everything underground. But I had to go down 4' and put it all in a PVC pipe. We have frost here.  

Good job  

[Magicman]

And I have to get below the grass roots to keep the lawn mower from cutting it. 

[doc henderson]

nothing worse than accidentally pulling up some pvc with wires, gas or water coming out.

[Stephen1]

I like it all buried, to much rock here. At 1st I though wooden boxes? Then remembered not with a concrete guy!

[teakwood]

Almost done. Isn't that a beauty!!

I even did tiny triangular inlays in the corners so the concrete edges wont be sharp

[okmulch]

 Very nice and professional looking!

[Stephen1]

It sure is!
 

[Ron Scott]

Well done!

[teakwood]

Making slow progress on the project excavation/ make more flat ground. been busy with customers orders, finished a big a.. TyG order for a Canadian client, ready for pick up.



the area where the possible cabin will go is almost done and Victoria and I had a after workday beer there, it turned out to be a beautiful place. the first pic will be the jungle view from the cabin, the second pic needs no explanation

[longtime lurker]

Ramon I love all those pictures and I know just how much work goes into getting a quality product but.... man I hate that stacking job on those boards.

My experience is that when stacking T&G type profiles you really need to insert the tongue into the groove when stacking. This is because somewhere in transit the boards will shuffle sideways and lock together and that results in loose strapping which then results in falling over stacks when some guy hits the brakes on a forklift somewhere. Locking them together also protects the tongues from breaking due indifferent handing in transit - being picked up with the forks not completely under the packs - and in the event of the pack being subject to a higher moisture environment means the tongues (being thinner) won't swell more than the groove permits.

Then because I'm OCD you should have dunnage strapped to the bottom of each pack, and a board across the top of each pack under the strapping... preferably both grooved so the strapping is in a recess to protect it. Keep your strap spacings consistent and then when you stack you have the top crosspiece under the bottom bearer of the next stack up every time... Just helps to protect the wood from gravel and sand that gets embedded into the dunnage when its getting lifted around from yards to trucks to containers to trucks to yards to some construction site somewhere far far away.


 




Mate I know just how much effort goes into getting a good product and I'd hate to hear your hard work was damaged in transit. 

[teakwood]

All good points and info. 

yeah, TyG stacks are a PITA, i try to not insert the tongue into the groove on the packs (it's a pain for the builder to undo those packs) , the plastic strap will do that in the bottom and top layer anyways. yeah i know, the pack tends to loosen up but my market is different. Here in CR i carefully load the cargo onto a small truck it gets strapped down, drives mostly under 2-3 hours and gets unloaded by hand directly at the construction site. no lumberyards, dealers, reseller between my chain.

what i learned over the years about TyG: before i did a pretty tight tongue and groove, almost the same thickness, maybe 0.1mm of play between them. so now i have one year old sample boards that won't fit together anymore because of swelling. so now i do a 0.2-0.3 play between them, they kinda loose when they come out of the molder but i explain to the customer that they will tighten up a bit after installation and with this system it allows them to move freely for years.

the standard here is about 1mm gab between tyg and that's just nasty, very horrible tyg system here   

[teakwood]

put 5 loads of gravel on top and compacted it with the excavator.
the project is done now!

[beenthere]

Beautiful !!

[aigheadish]

Yeah, Ramon, that looks really nice!