Cutting windmill blades

[Tones]

Up in Labrador, I was exploring where they were building new roads, they were doing corduroy, flopping the trees across the roadbed with wide tracked excavators, clearing 100 feet wide or better then dumping shot rock and gravel on top a dozen feet thick. Seems like nice blade sections 50 feet long would make a nice stable road base.

Corduroy roads is a smart idea. I was involved in building a road across a swamp and dug the pete out to get a base to build on. For years that road deformed even though it was compacted properly. It kept getting longitudinal cracks in it caused by the outside of the fill moving sideways. Cording it would have prevented this happening but there wasn't any windmills in those days and trees would have cost a motza. An earthquake phucked it in 2011 anyway.

 

[Willie B]

Corduroy roads is a smart idea. I was involved in building a road across a swamp and dug the pete out to get a base to build on. For years that road deformed even though it was compacted properly. It kept getting longitudinal cracks in it caused by the outside of the fill moving sideways. Cording it would have prevented this happening but there wasn't any windmills in those days and trees would have cost a motza. An earthquake phucked it in 2011 anyway.

1867 to 1903 my town was owned by a timber baron. His crews stripped 30,000 acres in my town 100,000 in several other towns. What didn't sell as lumber was burned for potash & charcoal. Griffith's roads crossed a lot of swamps, & wet spots. Everything was corduroyed. Typically, 3 to 5" diameter sapling trunks were used. Where they stay wet all the time, a few can still be found. Wood rots very slowly where saturated in cold water. We had a beaver dam fail a few years ago washed out a steel culvert. Beneath it, a four log culvert was exposed. It was intact after 140 years.

They used logs for cribbing, building wagon roads across the sheer stone face of the mountain. I can't say how long untreated logs lasted holding up a road.

 

[Willie B]

Corduroy roads is a smart idea. I was involved in building a road across a swamp and dug the pete out to get a base to build on. For years that road deformed even though it was compacted properly. It kept getting longitudinal cracks in it caused by the outside of the fill moving sideways. Cording it would have prevented this happening but there wasn't any windmills in those days and trees would have cost a motza. An earthquake phucked it in 2011 anyway.

Mrs. & I own property where a short Town Highway crosses a swamp .1 mile. It was built in the mid 1800s by dumping gravel on mostly organic soup. Although now raised on a few occasions by a couple feet each time, the organic soup rots away, and or squishes away beneath the road bed. Each repave involves adding a couple feet of crushed rock to keep it above water. Still it gets two feet under water sometimes.

 

[BC Placer gold]

1867 to 1903 my town was owned by a timber baron. His crews stripped 30,000 acres in my town 100,000 in several other towns. What didn't sell as lumber was burned for potash & charcoal. Griffith's roads crossed a lot of swamps, & wet spots. Everything was corduroyed. Typically, 3 to 5" diameter sapling trunks were used. Where they stay wet all the time, a few can still be found. Wood rots very slowly where saturated in cold water. We had a beaver dam fail a few years ago washed out a steel culvert. Beneath it, a four log culvert was exposed. It was intact after 140 years.

They used logs for cribbing, building wagon roads across the sheer stone face of the mountain. I can't say how long untreated logs lasted holding up a road.

We exposed 100 year old underground drifts/timber sets at one of our mining claims...the pine and Douglas fir timbers still had plenty of strength! Buried at about a 16' depth below surface. Broadaxe cut marks plainly visible and looked almost fresh.

 

[Willie B]

We exposed 100 year old underground drifts/timber sets at one of our mining claims...the pine and Douglas fir timbers still had plenty of strength! Buried at about a 16' depth below surface. Broadaxe cut marks plainly visible and looked almost fresh.

I wouldn't believe this stuff if I hadn't seen it.

 

[CM1995]

We dug up an 8" popular tree buried around 16' deep under and existing building we demo'd for a new chicken shack. Still had the bark on it.

The building we demo'd was the second structure on the site with the first being a U-Totem gas station back in the late 70's early 80's.

Dug the tree up in 2011.

 

[BC Placer gold]

There is quite a bad smell also when excavating these old timbers. These workings were at 6500' and the main timber available was pine. It was tight ring and pretty strong due to the elevation. Some Douglas fir also was utilized.

Underground timbering dates from the early 1920's. Not really sure what the hexagon structure was for Originally it was deeply buried. Have two small gauge cast rail car wheels at home as souvenirs.
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Access was 2 days by horseback from nearest town. Pictures taken 2014

(Sorry, some major thread drift from windmill blades lol!)

 

[dayexco]

Maybe weld up a couple guides out of some angle iron, one at each end of steel sheet and put a couple hard wood planks under the blades to protect the guillotine cutting edge.

Or for some more ideas:

Here’s some blades being covered up. Don’t know where this pic came from but it’s 2-3 years old. View attachment 356185

i remember that pic also. i think it was either in Wyoming, or down near Sioux Falls, SD. Side note. in the year 2023, if you took ALL the power generated from ALL the windmills in the state of south dakota, we could only provide 40% of NYC's energy needs. a whole state full of windmills, and can't take care of one city.

 

[DDoug]

I don't know if this has been posted before:

 

[CM1995]

I don't know if this has been posted before:

Very interesting. I guess it makes the jersey barriers lighter than normal concrete?

 

[DDoug]

Very interesting. I guess it makes the jersey barriers lighter than normal concrete?

That won't go over very well in Joisey now will it ?.....

 

[Tones]

Wonder how it would work making tilt panels and other preccast products, even water tanks. The sky could be the limit.

 

[crane operator]

Wonder how it would work making tilt panels and other preccast products, even water tanks. The sky could be the limit.

Maybe water tanks. I don't think you could do tilt panels unless it had its own interior steel structure.

I'm not sure that they will actually qualify as traffic barriers for the state road dept either. If they only weigh 1/3 as much, they won't catch a car at highway speeds. They would work for jobsite protection.

 

[CM1995]

It could be a great material for pre-fab concrete privacy fences.

 

[Tones]

Ìn regards to the barriers, I've talked to an engineer about them. He reckons they would have to pass the Texas concrete test to allow them to be used on Hiway construction sites. That test is internationally recognised. If that is so, my thinking about manufacturing other products maybe correct. For anyone who has built a Crib Wall it would be a gods end to a lug lighter product especially when you are 3 courses high wearing muddy boots.

 

[CM1995]

Ìn regards to the barriers, I've talked to an engineer about them. He reckons they would have to pass the Texas concrete test to allow them to be used on Hiway construction sites. That test is internationally recognised. If that is so, my thinking about manufacturing other products maybe correct. For anyone who has built a Crib Wall it would be a gods end to a lug lighter product especially when you are 3 courses high wearing muddy boots.

What's a Crib Wall?

 

[Tones]

What's a Crib Wall?

This is it. The 2 components are bearers and stretchers with no fines gravel infill. The height determines how thick the base is, so on a 7 metre high wall would be 3 wide for 2m high, then 2 wide for 2m high then 1 wide for the remainder. The face is at a 1n4 lean

Criblock Retaining Wall | Kriblok Retaining Wall - Criblock Wall

A criblock Retaining Wall, criblock wall or Kriblok wall are retaining walls walls built using concrete crib frames filled with stone.

retainingwallsolutions.co.uk

 

[hvy 1ton]

It could be a great material for pre-fab concrete privacy fences.

Large format hollow core retaining blocks would be a good candidate as well. Most of the wall's weight comes from the rock infill already.

The 2 components are bearers and stretchers with no fines gravel infill.

That's an interesting concept. Somewhere between precast gabion and sideways hollow core blocks.

 

[CM1995]

This is it. The 2 components are bearers and stretchers with no fines gravel infill. The height determines how thick the base is, so on a 7 metre high wall would be 3 wide for 2m high, then 2 wide for 2m high then 1 wide for the remainder. The face is at a 1n4 lean

Criblock Retaining Wall | Kriblok Retaining Wall - Criblock Wall

A criblock Retaining Wall, criblock wall or Kriblok wall are retaining walls walls built using concrete crib frames filled with stone.

retainingwallsolutions.co.uk

Interesting. So the drainage stone is big enough it doesn't fall/wash out the openings?

 

[Tones]

Interesting. So the drainage stone is big enough it doesn't fall/wash out the openings?

That is correct, no compaction required either. Interestingly the last one I was involved with wasn't damaged in a 8.9 earthquake, obviously moved a bit but stayed in tack.