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holoz0r in Reflections • 8 months ago

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.

8 months ago in Reflections by holoz0r

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galenkp 8 months ago

Hard wood sometimes fucks people I guess.

(Ok, I'll stop now.)

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beelzael 8 months ago

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.

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holoz0r 8 months ago

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.

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beelzael 8 months ago

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.

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holoz0r 8 months ago

In Australia, Eucalyptus are just like having barrels of diesel on the fire front in our bushfires. The oil is highly flammable, and also ensures that Koalas stay drugged up and out of the cities.

They're "pretty" in a brutal sort of way, but make no mistake, they are indeed bioweapons disguised as trees.

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beelzael 8 months ago

Yes, and yet, people insist on growing them as they make for good wood and grow quickly. We had a lot of devastating wild fires in Ecuador in the last years due to drought, and Eucalyptus played a devilish role in that.

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