The wood will be lifted onto plastic levellers once we have the gravel and concrete blocks close enough to level. And them, I am not sure about termites after that - but can they live in -25? I guess ants survive it in the soil. The treated wood should be fine for a fair amount of time though. Most houses in Finland are wooden too.
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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.
The wood sits stop the crushed gravel, on pavers, ad then the plastic adjustable holder.