On Monday 28 March 2016 07:00:15 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 28.03.16 06:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I can recall we had to replace the plastic coated wire at 6 or so > > years, the sunlight destroyed it, then the wire rusted and stained > > the clothes. > > Ours is just the same well-galvanised wire as used on the 7 km > boundary fence. There's a new blue-coated variety out here, apparently > rated to resist coastal spray. It might be worth a try, but in 52 > years we've not had rust problems with the plain galvanised variety. > It doesn't take long to change - compared to the decades of service. > > > Our poles were 4" steel water pipe, probably still standing nearly > > 70 years later. > > Yeah, even the termites have trouble with that. But our poles last > decades, about 50 metres from the forest. (Wouldn't do nearly as well > in there.) > > Mind you, e.g. 1/8" stainless steel cable is pretty cheap at the > hardware store, especially averaged over half a century. > > Erik
Now maybe, but my memories go back to about 1939 when I was 5yo. And the 1/8" "aircraft" cable I have 50 feet or so on a small winch, isn't stainless, and it has rusted some. The winch is on one leg of a tripod made out of 16' 2x8's I salvaged from a big AFC sat dish crate 25 years ago. It has come in handy as a sky hook over the years, helped me turn my boat over so I could patch its bottom and give it a fresh coat of Epoxy green Oliver tractor paint, helped me build the garage in 2008, currently suspended for storage out of the weather from the ridgepole of a 10x20 pipe framed canvas garage with its up hill legs cut down to match the hillside its sitting on, firred up and now recovered with currugated plastic roof sheeting. My 46 year old fishing boat sits in it along with a random selection of other yard and construction gear. That weight made sure it survived a measured 112 mph wind in 2010 that took down 3 of the 4 pine trees & severely damaged a 4th, all my board back fencing and quite a bit of the shingles off the house & damaged the rear siding enough that State Farm paid me for all of it. I finally had the 4th one taken down last fall as it wasn't looking so healthy. Root damage from me hitting it with the riders blades over the years. That winch got heavy use when I rebuilt the fence after that 2010 blow, in green wet poplar using 3 native sized 2x4's 8 feet long for panel horizontal runners, with a 1x6 on each face of the runners, spaced 2" apart to let some air go thru but block the view. Green & wet when I put them together, each panel weighed 400 lbs. That tripod and winch lifted them into position to screw them to the 4x4 treated posts. Except for one panel that I assembled on the back deck to see how it would look that I collared 3 other neighbors to help me take it to where it went, I did it all by myself. All told about 80 feet of fencing, with nearly 35 lbs of 2 different sized treated deck screws in the whole thing and I only used one Bosch phillips #2 bit putting all those screws in with a Hitachi 14 volt nicad powered drill. I have since bought bags of other bits that looked good, but are junk in 20 screws driven. Had a 2 week break in the middle, when I got to where I was going to put a big, double swinging gate in so I could get the rider & anything else its size thru to the back yard, Dee said it had to have an arch over the gate, so I re-read rule #2 & set the chop saw for about a 6 degree angle and made a 3 layers of 2 by arch out of little 6" pieces sawed at that angle, after I'd run it thru the planer for a more uniform thickness & laminated with tightbond III, & all the F clamps I had, setting the ends on some corbels from Lowes and "made" an arch. Covered in a blond olympic stain at the time thats about gone now, its still there. No screws in it, just the glue holding it together. The corbels are cracked and breaking up but the arch still looks solid yet. Its all turned a weathered grey now, but my back wouldn't let me do anything but hire it re-stained or painted now. If it outlasts me the way it is, and its looking like it will, shrug. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
