How would you detwist this brick column
ToolFreakBlue
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Have a little service project coming up. Brick column under a porte coche (sp?) has apparantly been hit.
It is still plumb and intact, just twisted out of square with the world, nearby world anyway.
The brick is veneer.
Our thought is the jack the structure above sightly to take any pressure off of the bricks.
Then lash a post to the column near the base to act as a lever and pull/twist it back into alignment.
Crazy? Doable? other ideas?
Got a couple of weeks to figure it out.
TFB (Bill)
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Exactly what I'd do. Like a big pipe wrench.
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Jed Clampitt
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Exactly, wrench it over.TFB (Bill)
With the same car that hit it before.
Worked like a charm! Got the column shifted back in place this morning.
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landscape timbers strapped together.
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Other side.
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Jacking point
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Back in place after a little pulling on one end and pushing on the other.
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Brick repointed abit, thank goodness is is 9 feet up in the air.TFB (Bill)
Cool, I knew it would work that way.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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Sounds right to me!
Just remember - if you can't tie a good knot, just tie a lot of them.
Jim
How about if you want to un-twist it. play Chubby Checker Backwards. Just a thoughtTGIF
while driving the car that hit it as Saulgood suggested. I like it.TFB (Bill)
I'll look for one here:
http://www.animatedknots.com/index.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.comTFB (Bill)
I call them hatchett knots, takes a hatchett to undo it.
I let the DW string up a clothes line once. I know what I speak of.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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"If Brains was lard, you couldn't grease much of a pan"Jed Clampitt
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take the load off of it...
make a huge tuning fork type gizmo...
un twist it...
repoint...
reload...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Great.Side note, CapnMac will get a kick out of your steps when/if he sees this. Too hard to explain.
TFB (Bill)
okay....
so hit it wit a truck and start all over...
so what's up with Capnmac???
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"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Only he can give it the penmanship it needs. Nothing bad mind you.TFB (Bill)
oh-tay...
so what do you think about using a truck on it....
preferably some PITA neighbors' truck...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Might need to be a bit more delicate than the truck. We will keep it in mind if we get hung up.TFB (Bill)
Unload and lash a 4x4 lever to it with one of those ratchet straps.
I think I would create a plywood box that would encase at least 3 or 4 rows of brick (or the whole thing) and then use a strap to twist it back.I would be afraid that a simple strap would put the wrong tension on the brick and mortar. Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
CapnMac will get a kick out of your steps when/if he sees this.
Well, I'm in concurrance with the method, that's sure enough.
Only part I'd change would be to knock together some plywood and 2x to make whalers of a sort most of the length of the twisted part, and ratchet-strap them into a goodly amount of compression.
That's so that, when the twisting lever is applied, you do not discover any other weak-in-shear mortar joints further up the column. You shear a couple more mortar joints, and then you are looking at taking it all down and doing it over again, to be sure it's "right."
Been thinking about this a bit, mostly on how to retro fit a half-decent, not-over-ugly, sacrificial bollard to prevent a reoccurance. Easiest answer likely to drive 1.625" fence post 50/50, and fill above-ground portion with NS grout, then slide on a pvc cover which could be tastefully painted to be unobtrusive. Or use wood boxed around to make a "hitching post" or the like, to suit the house's decor/style.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Regarding IMERC's post.... The "Reload" made me chuckle in the since of REEELOOOAAAADDDDDD! [It's an Aggie thing]TFB (Bill)
Clamp 2 x 3s at all corners with corner/band clamps
Lag long 2 x 4 levers to 2 x 3s - turn (lift structure as req'd.
What twisted that column?
Was it the wooden post inside twisting? Looks like the bottom is 1 1/2 bricks wide on two sides and 2 bricks on the other two. If so, the hollow space inside is about 4" x 8" and a twisted rough 4x4 post in the middle could prevent your rotating the brick column back to its original position.
We think it got tagged slightly by a car. We're hoping that whatever member is inside will either rotate with the brick or is independent of the brick. TFB (Bill)
Bruce, you ask "What twisted that column? "
Not sure, but I think this van might be involved. :)
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Just maybe. What do you think?
TFB (Bill)
That would seem to explain it all right.So, did you just back that van up and twist the column back? Body work cost would be the same anyway. :)BruceT