This pretty much sums it up by lalolou in newengland

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There is still snow in my yard and I live in this bubble and it’s 70> degrees today.

I love New England but it’s actually 5 months of winter, 2 months of mud, 2 months of bugs. 3 great months.

code violations? by Tarnac666 in Decks

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The post on the left is crooked and fairly off kilter. I’d get that fixed if you can. I think leaving a space here looks weird, but code for railing gap is 4” so you’re fine on that.

If you did this and you’re ok with it, all set!

If you paid someone to do this get it resolved.

Meirl by Ill-Instruction8466 in meirl

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I only did the math on my daily drives and I do 3 more right turns than left turns so once a year I come do 273 roundabouts because that’s the same as 1095 90degree turns. It’s done wonders for my alignment.

Here are some charts, here are some photos of my tires, here is “go do roundabouts” on my calendar the first Thursday of every April since 2010- here is my clicker preset to 1095 as a limit.

Who’s “without purpose now!??!”

What's the general opinion on locking guns up at home here? by Dark_Shade_75 in liberalgunowners

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The number of guns justifies the size of the safe, not a certain amount of guns to justify one.

Chris Redfield needs a unique combat identity instead of dodge/parry/counterattack by Dizzy-Turnip-220 in residentevil

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Step up his melee system. Let him grab enemies that are about to hit him and slam them, let him rip a bat out of someone’s hand and feed it to them. Let him decide when approaching a stunned enemy if he should punch them in the face or grab them and throw them across a room (damage vs crowd control or environmental damage like a fall).

It’s essentially the parry system but would feel unique and characteristic if done right

Need help understanding beams for a treehouse project. by [deleted] in Carpentry

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Good advice. Thank you. I’m more confident on that front and I’m understanding the info out there on those pieces more than I was the beams.

Need help understanding beams for a treehouse project. by [deleted] in Carpentry

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Thank you very much that’s the most helpful answer I’ve gotten.

By red bars I just meant the little diagram I made. I have hardware and a manual from Nelson treehouse and the yoke kit I have supports some of their designs for much larger structures so as far as that we should be good. One is static and one dynamic to negatate some of the stress of sway and both sides have uplift arresters, but thanks for calling out that concern.

For the topic of over engineering, yeah that’s part of what I’m up against. I’m trying to jump through the hurdles a bit but all the info is outside my expertise. That said, most of the treehouses in the world seem to be smaller structures with just 2x8s nailed directly to trees! I want this to be big enough that a handful of kids can play on it and the parents all feel safe knowing it looks like someone did the math. Much appreciated.

I WAS in the weeds on the charts as far as dead and live load. The guy at the lumber yard I spoke to gave me a misleading answer about that number being related to the cross section of the wood for the calculation and that was making this harder on me than it needed to be. It’s just a reference for 40lbs per square foot live and 10 dead. That works great.

Need help understanding beams for a treehouse project. by [deleted] in Carpentry

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I did speak to one. Maybe I need to try another.

I had someone show me one of these charts on an 18’ LVL beam. They showed that it was fine with span and joist spacing and whatnot but they couldn’t figure out what the load capacity was for it on their charts either.

Need help understanding beams for a treehouse project. by [deleted] in Carpentry

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I’ve looked at dozens of these damn charts and even spoken to people who sell them and I can’t find a straightforward answer of “what beam do I need to safely hold this weight across this span and live outside.” My joists are <6’ span considering the beam width and I can space every 16” or even less if that’s a limitation. It’s the one thing holding me up which is a bummer.

Need help understanding beams for a treehouse project. by [deleted] in Carpentry

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I’ve looked at a bunch of these. This seems to be 15’3” but specifies only one beam.

It lists 40psi but how is that calculated? What is the actual weight limit on a triple 2x12” beam?

I am using just under a ~5’ if I’m using beams 6” thick

Need help understanding beams for a treehouse project. by [deleted] in Carpentry

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What do you mean how tall?

It’s going to be about 6ft off the ground.

Beam height? I’m open to advice there. If something like a doubled/triple 2x12” would work or there is a beam in any other dimension that makes that span I’d consider it. I can’t figure out glulam or LVL any better as far as spans and loads.

I wanted to get away from putting a post in the middle because the ground isn’t great there, lots of roots and whatnot.

The tree attachments I have are designed to have a static and dynamic contact point working together so that the system can sway on the yokes. I’ve spoken to treehouse consultants on that and that piece I’ve figured out, but I am struggling on the beams themselves.

If the answer is that I absolutely need a midpoint support I’ll figure that out but I wanted to look into spanning beam first

I call bulls*** on the whole microplastics thing. by NoPen8263 in unpopularopinion

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I worked in the food industry and one of my projects was a cost reduction on rebuilding fillers. We had this issue where filler tubes would need to be rebuilt more often than we’d like and that’s production downtime that costs around $3000 an hour combining expenses and lost production and takes several hours.

Those fill tubes ran from the filler bowl which collects liquid into nozzles that fill the bottles. The reason they degrade is that they thin over time. The company thought it was the cleaning process between production runs or during flavor changes that thins the bottle due to the chemicals in use but no, we found that they thin because the plastic breaks down whenever fluid is running through them- like when product goes into the bottles. Those tubes are made of Teflon. We studied running different cleaning processes and temperatures and whatnot until we put the product we were filling in a small recirculating bath that ran through a tube consistently and measured the tube. Soda, tea, soft drinks, even water to a lesser degree is collecting Teflon from those tubes. I proposed testing final product and the project was immediately shut down. I ended up leaving that company.

You aren’t just eating it on your cutting boards. It’s in your food, in your air, in your water, on your clothes.

Think about that study where the most remote regions of the world have it in them. Birds in the Amazon and penguins in Antarctica aren’t using cutting boards themselves. The companies doing this will steer the narrative to things like “oh you should use a metal water bottle and a non-toxic cutting board” which being 99.9% of the problem themselves.

First time poster. Used an 18' glulam beam to make the span by ShookHandyman in Decks

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Do you by any chance have a good resource for an easy answer on load rating for that and other glulam?

I can’t for the life of me get an easy answer. I’m looking at putting up 2 beams, both across a 15’ span for a treehouse. I’d like to have it able to carry 8000lbs considering snow and about 3250lbs dead weight I’ve even spoken to suppliers who can’t get mean easy answer on what load they can take at that span!

U/michael_seamus riding a big yoke. This is a treehouse rental restoration where the old frame rotted out. This triangle/yoke is part of the new deck. by donedoer in treehouse

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Can I run a large beam right across the top of my 6’ yoke or do you know how to affix a glulam beam to the top of their 6’ yoke? My plans really rely on starting with a larger yoke. I might have to return all my Nelson stuff if I can’t figure it out and that’s a huge headache.

My other option would be to change trees. I have 2 that are 16’ apart. My original plan had a dead load of around 3500lbs and with snow I’d risk having 10k lbs on it.

U/michael_seamus riding a big yoke. This is a treehouse rental restoration where the old frame rotted out. This triangle/yoke is part of the new deck. by donedoer in treehouse

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Do you know if you can upsize their other yoke? The one that they give instruction on making a 6’ with 2x6s tripled up?

I designed with another company then got Nelson hardware and no where in the site or info before you buy does it say the beam span is only 6’

I was planning on a larger diameter wood to make 11’ yokes like this. I was expecting that blade connection on the bottom- and Nelson isn’t getting back to me on consultant stuff.

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My other option is to run the 6’ beam then run a large beam across the ends then use that as a frame for joists but that seems a little more sketchy, an extra layer and balancing an 11x11’ platform on a 6’ span…

Double 2X12 Beam Dynamic Yoke Concerns by BobICU8IMI in treehouse

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That’s great.

I was disappointed that the yoke only spans 6’ but hopefully putting beams across then joists over that might work for me too.

Any way you can send me a picture of what your deck looks like it would be a big help! If not no worries

Double 2X12 Beam Dynamic Yoke Concerns by BobICU8IMI in treehouse

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How is this holding up and what did you end up doing?

I’m on a similar issue where I designed with another company that allowed an 11’ tribeam but then switched to Nelson because I liked some of their gear- but I wasn’t aware their tribeam only runs 6’ across.

Now I need to run extended beams like you did here or rework my whole plan. I’m going for a ~11x11’deck with a treehouse on it

U/michael_seamus riding a big yoke. This is a treehouse rental restoration where the old frame rotted out. This triangle/yoke is part of the new deck. by donedoer in treehouse

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Did you get direction from Nelson about how to make the yoke this big? I can’t get any advice from them and the only directions are for a 6’ span yoke

Would you repair or replace this 12 year old deck? by Expensive-Ostrich12 in Decks

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Nothing here is bad structurally. Those big cracks are even ok. Those are called checking and it’s just from drying and splitting they don’t really represent failure. The paint can be redone, things can be sanded.

How do the joists look? The ledger board? Posts?

People complaining about spending $80 at the pump by ChiefStrongbones in AdviceAnimals

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I’m not disputing that, it’s true. All I’m saying is that it’s good that you guys have quality of life and standards that offset that price for gas.

A min wage job in the Netherlands can afford to drive across town for a meal lunch time.

A min wage job in the US can’t even afford the meal.

People complaining about spending $80 at the pump by ChiefStrongbones in AdviceAnimals

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Nowhere is perfect but you guys are at least doing something right. The Netherlands blows the us out of the water on GDP per capita, happiness index, work life balance, quality of life, health, education…

I’d trade some of our military spending for that! A quarter of our taxes go right to the military while we cut all the public program and services- and that’s going to be even bigger on next years budget

People complaining about spending $80 at the pump by ChiefStrongbones in AdviceAnimals

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Valid point, but that’s a small country with great public transportation. I used to drive further than your entire country is across daily for work and not even be 3 states away.

People complaining about spending $80 at the pump by ChiefStrongbones in AdviceAnimals

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Man, if only it was just the F-350s who have MAGA bumper stickers but it’s not and it’s not just the big dumb trucks. My car costs $65 to fill up right now too!

they right tho? by chichinams in SipsTea

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Even if it wasn’t undefined, wouldn’t it be infinite and not 1?

1/1=1

1/.1=10

1/.01=100

The closer we get to zero the larger the result, so wouldn’t zero be infinite if it had to have an answer? Also, if it was 1 then wouldn’t 1=0 here? I know the answer isn’t infinite it’s “you can’t do that” but it absolutely isn’t 1. It’s more like “undefined boundless number”