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Fiddling around with FIDS!
These are Fids. Used for Rope Splicing, these are particularly large ones (2-1/4" diameter by 21" long) for log boom and barge tow ropes. A fid is used to hold open rope knots and holes in canvas, and to separate the "lays" (or strands)...
Yellow Cedar Adventure Playground
Sometimes we get involved in some interesting projects! Check this Yellow Cedar Natural Adventure Playground, this is very cool, we supplied some timbers and flooring for this build to a good customer. Lucky kids!
Timber Wedges
These timber wedges are being used by a logistics company to secure large pipe from rolling. They are 6" tall and 12" on base, 45 degree cut, making the angle about 8" long. A squirt of polyurethane and a couple of nails will hold...
Fabricated Timbers for Rail Posts (Cross Buck)
These are pre-drilled and shaped timbers ready for incising and treating and eventual painting to be used as Rail Crossing Posts. The holes are drilled to accept the Cross Buck
Fir Wedges for a Shipyard
These are 3" x 6" x 36" wedges from 3" heel to 1" toe with a chamfered edge. These are being used at a shipyard to support sheets of steel plate before welding.
Halloween with SuperToby!
Last night SuperToby went Trick or Treating......(photo credit @pupcountry)
Crawler Crane on Crane Mats
This selection of pictures explains well what Crane Mats are for......a stable base for very large Crawler Cranes. Maintaining a flat surface, widening the point loading, extending the base, keeping it all "flat" so the job can be accomplished quickly and safely. This also...
Biggest Timber Wedge in the World…..maybe
This giant timber wedge was 40" at the heel, 60" wide and 40' long. They feature fully engineered lifting hardware and a steel encapsulated toe. The special job was on a complex highway project where most of the lifts taking place were on 8%...
Contoured Dunnage for Dock Terminal
These contoured pipe skids were sent to a West Coast port to support some expensive coated 24" diameter pipe. Ropes around the special coated pipe keeps pipes separated when being transported.Â
Douglas Fir Timbers for Trestle
These Douglas Fir timbers are 12" x 12" x 8' and are being used in some of the bridge repairs which were caused by massive flooding in BC in 2021.
Big Long Sticks!
Check out these 2 long Douglas Fir Select Structural Timbers 12" x 12" x 40' long. To be used in a special trestle job! Call us for your special timbers!