I guess it is not as much of a problem as it is "down under".
Our houses have timber skeletons, mainly pine. Pine is a pretty.... uhh, soft timber.
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I guess it is not as much of a problem as it is "down under".
Our houses have timber skeletons, mainly pine. Pine is a pretty.... uhh, soft timber.
We got hard wood here too you know bro. 🤔😬
Yeah, but its a prick to work with.
Haha, indeed you're right.
Seriously, the door I needed to replace on my old shed had a hardwood frame and structure. My (corded) circular saw, @ 2400W, with a fresh blade, could not fucking make any progress through that timber when I needed to cut it down to dispose of it, and install a new door I made out of some ply / mdf.
It was an absolute horror show going at it with the hacksaw, by hand. I think my right shoulder is still fucked from it almost a year later.
Here, I don't even have a shed and don't really have room for one, either, just shelves, bloody melamine on brackets, mounted on the studs in the garage.
Hard wood sometimes fucks people I guess.
(Ok, I'll stop now.)
What kind of wood was that? I had a similar experience with eucalyptus here in Ecuador. Instead of drilling into it, was more burning a hole into the stem. As doing so with a shitty quality drilling bit, I pushed a little too hard and the bit slipped backwards. I thought I had finally made progress, but the bit had just gotten loose and somehow made it's way into the machine to glue to it. Took a loot of WD40, time and effort to get that thing out of there.
Needless to say, the wood here is often better quality than the tools.
No idea what sort of timber the old door was made from, but of sterner stuff. I eventually got through it, but I didn't send it off for chemical analysis or anything like that, though I imagine fire would have dispatched it quite quickly.
Thus, make it useless as rocket launch gantry material.
Eucalyptus here is not very susceptible to fire. Forest fires usually benefit them, as it burns away everything else, but the wood is so hard and tight that it's hard to catch fire... But who am I telling, you're from down under, you invented Eucalyptus trees 😂 Very impressive and aggressive way to conquer habitat.
The wood sits stop the crushed gravel, on pavers, ad then the plastic adjustable holder.