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Offline Weisshaupt

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Free Beam Calculator
« on: July 16, 2015, 03:18:23 PM »
Building something big?

http://webstructural.com/beam-flexure/

Just used this to figure out how big the beams under my Daughter's "tree house" are going to have to be
Its a Cottonwood, and hollow and I don't trust it, so more accurately its a house on stilts attached to a tree that will more likely end up holding the tree up..

and another table with general weights.
http://www.derose.net/steve/resources/engtables/materials.html

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Re: Free Beam Calculator
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2015, 09:50:44 PM »
What a great dad! How many, uhm...gun turrets are you including?
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Re: Free Beam Calculator
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2015, 08:21:47 AM »
What a great dad! How many, uhm...gun turrets are you including?

In theory this is my daughter's project - which I hope my son decides to help on ( another  long conversation last night on- well - everything really. )   and I am supervising.  But yes its tactical significance is hot being overlooked.
 But right now is pretty large.. 8x 12 platform with a 7x8 one story structure. Its also up uncomfortably high for my parental comfort ( 15 feet)   but then I think back to my childhood and realize the ones I played in where higher and far less sturdy, and that is what railings and walls are for. 

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Re: Free Beam Calculator
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2015, 08:43:25 PM »
Should work for a gallows, eh?  Just a thought...
We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.