i'll put my homes joists, thick as they are, made well over 150 years ago, to
@Duck 's toothpick crane.
i ain't gottabe no damned engineer, to see the results after several liftings of that Rube Goldberg contraption.
WTH? There is a difference in today's quick grow forests and young pine they want to pass up as hardwood. My previous house was built in 1956. My current one is circa 2005. Lots of differences in construction.
Previous: Wiring in conduit, cast iron waste, copper pipe with lead sweated joints, CBS walls, rock lathe and plastered walls with 2X4 PT #2 pine, end wall columns, floating slab, built in place trusses that you have to pilot drill to sink a screw into it, concrete tile roof. It was a fortress.
Current: Monolithic slab and footer, PVC pipe for cold supply and waste, CPVC for hot. CBS walls, galvanized studs, 1/2" sheetrock walls that are skim coated and painted, wiring all just passed through the studs via a hole in the stud, prefab trusses and I tool off the shingle roof and put on a 'galvanized aluminum roof', and impact doors and windows. While very substantial, in strength, I hear every drop of rain, a train over a mile away, and the wind howling in a hurricane.
Wood is so much stronger than you think. It has flex and can withstand temperature swings and adjust itself to them. If I knew proper weapons analogies, I would use them, but I'm not that schooled in the vast array of weapons available.
Oh...you're just trolling
@Duck ? I knew that! Grab a fresh one, Mr. Truck Driver.
