Wednesday

Sawhorses
are for the unimaginative and unenlightened.

I make Saw Columns.

Out of redwood.



Must I go on?

17 comments:

Twist Factor said...

Cross bracing is in one direction...uh oh!

Gal said...

That's the first thing that I noticed! And I don't know nuttin 'bout building stuff

Unknown said...

Am I to assume by these comments that I am being called to task on my diagonal bracing techniques?

Seriously?

Better y'all go on back to studyin' skool and learn a thing or two.

Twist Factor said...

Yes I am! You'd never get me to stand on one of them, ever.

Unknown said...

Twister: That's because you have no understanding of the power of the triangle.

Oh, I get it! you must think that each of the sides reqire "X" bracing...

Pure overkill.

C'mon over and wiggle my column! Ha!

Twist Factor said...

http://www.myhomeamongthehills.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/01_09_2012-023.jpg
http://www.dans-hobbies.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/benchrendering.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ly50gRWcic4/So65_mKKw-I/AAAAAAAAABU/zIlOsYyVnQ0/S692/CROSS+BRACING.jpg
http://www.omsi.edu/exhibits/engineerit/graphics/components/crossbracing.jpg

Must I go on?

Twist Factor said...

They don't each need a cross but you DO have to brace both directions of twist if weight is a force.

Unknown said...

http://www.nachi.org/deck-inspections.htm


One diagonal brace , locked, makes two triangles.

Positive sheer bracing is then achieved.

Have you ever built a house?

Unknown said...

And if you will notice, the opposing sides of my columns are braced oposite of each other.

sheesh!

Twisty Bitch said...

You left out the twist factor of a force coming straight down.

Go ahead, put one column on its own with some ply on top, get up on that sucker and do a twist of your body to the left...and stop. NO DON'T PLEASE!

I know about triangles.

Unknown said...

...I am going outside RIGHT NOW and putting my James Brown tape in the tape deck and hopping up on the door slab and gonna start dancing like a...like a Sex Machine!!

Video forthcoming.

Hopefully.

Unknown said...

I most certainly DO disagree, because, as I pointed out, the opposing sides of the column are braced diagonally AGAINST each other.

No twisting can occur.

Twisted Asshole Grinning said...

Wait a minute. One column only.

I think if you were to nail the base of one of those columns to the floor, I could grab the top and twist till it failed, even if the top had a triangle.

Do you agree?

Twisted Asshole Grinning said...

Did you delete my comment?

Unknown said...

No sir. ...but the one I just posted is not there.

Vinny "Bond" Marini said...

Who built these Chubby Checker? Twist all you want..I trust The Phfrankie

Reggie Hunnicutt said...

Did you do Sex Machine?