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Phil Kane · March 18th 08, 06:24 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:04:13 EDT, wrote:

The only places I've seen such long pieces of 2x4 were in old balloon-
framed houses. One reason balloon-framing ended was the availability
and cost of such wood.

The glue-lam framing industry uses them quite a bit, with a production
line making all sorts of very long "timbers" from 2x4s and 2x6s held
together by glue that is RF heat-sealed (13.6 MHz ISM stuff) and a
flying-arm saw cutting them to length in a continuous process. I got
to visit such a plant once, and marveled that everything worked as
well as it did.
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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

e-mail: k2asp [at] arrl [dot] net