Railroad track weight ?
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JB4310
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Well I said all this talk was gonna get me crazy for some RR track, just so happened my neighbor had some up in a tree, so now I'm the proud owner of 23 feet of RR track, my wife saw me dragging it back to my yard and just thought I was nuts, she asked what I was going to do with it. I really don't know, was thinking about maybe an 8 or 10 foot piece for a drag leveler, this one is 6" wide at the base and 6.5" high, anybody need any?
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not to thread jack, but I actually worked for Delta RailRoad Construction outta astabula(sp?) ohio one summer replacing worn out track. We would use a chainsaw with a cutting wheel to cut the track pieces to length. Quite the operation. IIRC our best day we did almost a mile of track in 10 or 11 hours. I wish I would have gotten some pictures but I didn't think of it at the time. The coolest part was how we welded the rails together. We would pack clay around the ends, heat both ends of the rail then set a crucible on top with steel and a pyrotechnic(read "not explosive") and light it off. Soon as the steel melted it would drop the charge and fill the clay mold to fuse the ends together. 
JB4310
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RedNeckRacin said:not to thread jack, but I actually worked for Delta RailRoad Construction outta astabula(sp?) ohio one summer replacing worn out track. We would use a chainsaw with a cutting wheel to cut the track pieces to length. Quite the operation. IIRC our best day we did almost a mile of track in 10 or 11 hours. I wish I would have gotten some pictures but I didn't think of it at the time. The coolest part was how we welded the rails together. We would pack clay around the ends, heat both ends of the rail then set a crucible on top with steel and a pyrotechnic(read "not explosive") and light it off. Soon as the steel melted it would drop the charge and fill the clay mold to fuse the ends together.
I've seen them do that at night behind my old shop, quit the light show, with sparks flying every where, isn't that called cad welding or theramite?
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mjarrels said:
Well my brother already has the cross beams for the pole, he collects insulators, so we got that covered, he's been to insulator collectors get togethers and said one guy had a few poles set up in his yard loaded with insulators.
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Where can I get trees that grow railroad track ??
That would be kool
That would be kool
JB4310
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MrJimi said:Where can I get trees that grow railroad track ??
That would be kool
I know it's odd, that's why I had to include the picture, if I just made the statement that "My neighbor just happened to have some RR track up in her tree" it would be hard to believe or imagine. Must have been there many years as both trees were dead, I heard some one used it to lift a camper out of their truck, before me or my neighbor lived here. got about 1/4 cord of seasoned (standing dead) white oak out of the free deal to.
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Several years ago.
My uncle built a house and used a rail road track rail for the center support beam
I'm guessing the house to be about 46 to 52 feet long.
My uncle built a house and used a rail road track rail for the center support beam
I'm guessing the house to be about 46 to 52 feet long.
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isn't that called cad welding or theramite?
I have always heard it called thermite.
Aluminum powder and iron oxide, in the right proportions. A strip of magnesium is used to ignite it, sort of like a fuse.
In high school chemistry we used to mix it up in a small clay flower pot, and then watch a blob of white hot iron drop out of the bottom hole in the pot.
If you drop it into a pail of water it will melt a hole in the pail and then set whatever is under it on fire. Do not ask how I know this.
I have always heard it called thermite.
Aluminum powder and iron oxide, in the right proportions. A strip of magnesium is used to ignite it, sort of like a fuse.
In high school chemistry we used to mix it up in a small clay flower pot, and then watch a blob of white hot iron drop out of the bottom hole in the pot.
If you drop it into a pail of water it will melt a hole in the pail and then set whatever is under it on fire. Do not ask how I know this.
