Rigjockey
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Chicken lights and chrome was old school. The new style is duct tape and zip ties. Brampton style!
Show them all the places you've crashed since bingo card plates are no longer a thing.
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Show them all the places you've crashed since bingo card plates are no longer a thing.
Electric Chicken
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My truck has a rust hole on the cab so I covered it with that aluminum tape for now.
Not sure how I can fix the front end with duct tape and zip ties yet. Waiting for the insurance adjuster.
some of my house's foundation is field stone, some is brick.. the only buildings concrete and brick are the 2 schools on my street. can't say when they were built, but all that hardwood flooring and huge beams, says about the same time my house was built.
i can only venture to guess the other houses have some field stone foundation walls as well.
389 Hood
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Ask @Rigjockey to check in with a few of the Brampton drivers. They will surely know how it's done and ways to bypass the DOT or MOT depending on which country you have to drive into!
Duck
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I wonder how many houses on the east coast are built using old growth live oak, which was sought after for ship building after the British depleted their own supply.
When the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned Navy ship in the world needs some timbers replaced, they always have a hard time sourcing the wood.
Electric Chicken
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Probably nobody cares.
Duck
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389 Hood
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My Ft. Lauderdale house was built in 1956. You couldn't drive a nail through the studs or the trusses. You had to pilot drill that wood to even screw to it. The house was a fortress. I thought it to be hardwood pine. I don't know for sure. I went to double strap the trusses to the tie beam and it took me a week.
Electric Chicken
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My house was built sometime around 1900.
Wood was cheap back then so everything is thick.
It's like they built it for their ugly daughter who would never get a man.
Duck
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I'm unaware of any hardwood species of pine. My guess is the wood was old growth oak or hickory.
gearjammer
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chestnut was used in many homes at one time
many Mansard homes just in my neighborhood alone, might have the oak. i do have several large wooden cross beams as well, i just do not know the type of wood, as well as plank and wood floorings and wainscoting.
of course, the old horsehair plaster walls as well.
probably enough asbestos, lead piping and paint to kill several tiny nations 3 times over
one type of Mansard home in my hood..
and this about 4 blocks away from me, is the Wedding Cake House.....
recently restored
Wedding Cake House (Providence, Rhode Island) - Wikipedia
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Duck
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We all live in different parts of the country.
Prior to laws about deforestation, lumber was old growth and locally sourced.
I think "live oak" is/was the best wood on the east coast. In my neck o' the woods it was probably white oak.
White oak I think is the best, though live oak was used for ship building. Maybe they're equals.
Red oak sucks.
I know very little about pin oak, swamp oak, or Black Oak Arkansas.
built in the Boston Shipyard....
The USS Constitution, also known as "Old Ironsides," was constructed primarily from white oak and live oak. The outer and inner layers of the hull were made of white oak, while the vertical framing in the hull was made of live oak. The deck beams and planking were made of white oak and southern pitch pine, and the masts were crafted from white pine.
The USS Constitution, also known as "Old Ironsides," was constructed primarily from white oak and live oak. The outer and inner layers of the hull were made of white oak, while the vertical framing in the hull was made of live oak. The deck beams and planking were made of white oak and southern pitch pine, and the masts were crafted from white pine.
AK7
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Might have been Douglas Fir.
Electric Chicken
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Duck
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Duck
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500x magnification, it says.
At 30x, a human hair looks like a 16 gauge wire.
OK so here's what I did. Using the millimeter sides of these rulers, I put one under the "microscope" and the other one on the screen, as shown, and then another pic looking straight down at it.
I count six millimeters on the ruler for every one on the screen.
That's 6x.
But I figured out the problem:
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