Modular steel frames

wroughtn_harv · Jul 31, 2002

<font color=blue>Looking at some of your posts it's quite obvious that welding could be nearly as much fun as backhoe work!</font color=blue>

I done did enough back hoe work to know welding is much more fun./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Seriously building with steel and wood together is a snap. I don't know why so many folks got to be one way or tother and not both ways together.

s1120 · Aug 1, 2002

<font color=red>Seriously building with steel and wood together is a snap. I don't know why so many folks got to be one way or tother and not both ways together.</font color=red>

I did not used to be that way. One of my other hobbies is boat building. Back, late in the sail, early steam era, most of the big ships were of composite construction. Not wood, and epoxy, that is common now with backyard builders, but wood, and iron, or steel. They found out that once you got over a certain size, it was hard to keep the boat from hogging[a downward curve of the keel, like a frown] With the wood, steel composite, you got the strength of the steel ribs, and frames, and the advantages of the wood planking..

billfires · Aug 6, 2002

Pete, one of my fellow firefighters put up a 20' x30' 4 stall horse barn out of that frame work. The dealer was from Conn. and he used lumber from a local sawmill and corrugated roof panels from Agway. It was basically a big erector set. I will get the info Wed. and post it. One of the things he liked was he could do most of it by himself.

Billfires