----- Original Message ----- On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 23:52 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 24 November 2012 23:49:35 Todd Zuercher did opine: > > > Never used a Bostitch framer but haven't heard many good things about > > em. I only have used Paslode and Senco framers. That realy old super > > hard stuff isn't all ways very good for much. When I was redoing my > > roof, my Pasload could only sink a spike about 2 inches into the 140yr > > old rafters and beams. As long as I shot through new 2xs into the old > > the nails usually set fine (or needed one or two good wackes to finish > > them off). But When I dropped one of those old rafters down onto the > > sidewalk it shattered like glass. I thought to my self, wow never seen > > wood do that before. > > Neither have I todd. I won't say its impossible, that would be too far out, > particularly when its known the Murphy has been seen lurking about, but it > would sure boggle whats left of this mind. :D > > Cheers, Gene
It doesn't take 140 years. I grew up in a house built by CBI as housing for the construction of Grand Coulee Dam. Built in the early '30's to last 5 years it far exceeded that time frame. In 1957 when I was home for Xmas vacation Dad decided to tear out the ceiling of the living room in preparation for some expansion. The ceiling itself was Celotex ... and came down pretty easily. But when we got into the structure I could simply put my hand over the 2 x 4 ceiling joists and pull and they would break ... not quite shatter but close. That's not unusual for old dried out softwoods to splinter like that. But the way this old oak (or it might have been chestnut) broke had absolutely nothing to do with the grain pattern of the wood. It just exploded in a seemingly random fashion when dropped from 15ft. -- ======================================== Todd Zuercher mailto:[email protected] ======================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
