Posted on 01/14/2019 9:14:31 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
One word: Termites.
The how to build out of wood has been solved, the WHY however...
If I cut a square diagonally into two triangles is it stronger than the square... no...
Many variables come into play...
That said.
The good old triangle, the ONLY stable polygon. Nudge a rectangle a bit and it becomes a parallelogram.
Four equal lengths of Kryptonite square, one bolt at each corner; zero stability.
Use three for a nice equilateral triangle, near bomb proof.
This sounds like a wooden chimney.
That doesn’t sound like a good idea.
A small base relative to the height...
And that is why they propose two buildings tied together with an atrium.
Height to base ratio, well understood.
Now beavers? Very dangerous.
Mother tell your children,
Don’t do the things that I’ve done
Spend your life in sin and misery
...
I’m building a triangular skyscraper out of toothpicks.
So I’m not the only one.
The how to build out of wood has been solved, the WHY however...
Why not?
I doubt that any of the extremely tall buildings are profitable.
They are all a symbol for something or the other.
Rentable floor area shrinks with the height, consumed by ventilation, elevators, stairs, shearwalls...and the costs go up, up, up.
LOL
After I bought an original Taylormade Pittsburgh Persimmon in 1979, I started to enjoy golf a whole lot more.
Do you still use it?
Believe it or not
I contracted the mennonites from over near Lobelville TN to build over 100,000 sq foot of quite tall pole barns for RV and tour bus storage here in Nashville
They did a crack job and used fire resistant treated lumber which the fire Marshall deemed to be same fire factor as red metal
I was surprised expecting to be required to have masonry fire walls and sprinklers galore
But no
T3 will soon be an apartment building. The Minneapolis city council just voted not to permit any future building of single dwelling units.
Sadly, the face developed a tiny crack right in the center after a year of thousands of range balls and a number of rounds. The owner of the driving range where I bought it sent it back to Taylormade and they sent me a brand new one that was as good as the first one. I was playing in an NFL Alumni Pro Am in Philadelphia in 1985 and the shaft snapped just north of the hosel on a par 4 which was the long drive hole. The head carried about 100 yards but we never found the ball. There was a pond about 315 yards out and I saw my ball take off hot, low and straight down the middle but the fairway sloped down about 250 out so you couldn’t see the pond from the tee. I never played the course before so didn’t know about the pond. I figure the ball must have rolled into pond the way it felt and looked off the face when I hit it. The shaft snapped during the follow-through so the impact wasn’t compromised. I had the head re-shafted but it was never the same.
, wally_bert wrote:The mosquito was very successful.
Should have a picture of that plane which was a bomber.
Monadnock Building
The tallest load-bearing brick building ever constructed...
The walls are like eight FOOT THICK! Looking in from the sidewalk it is a bit different.
Sixteen floors max.
Worked there in a print shop on its 3rd floor.
One piece at a time?
There was a wood stupa built in ancient India that was reportedly over 500 feet tall, if memory serves.
Spruce from Queen Charlotte islands in Canada was used to build the Mosquito. They also used autoclaves to saturate the glue into the wood. Makes for a very strong composite structure that is lighter than fiber glass.
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