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   Huck | Aug 27, 2005 08:00pm | #1

   Beautiful! Makes me want to stop and smell the flowers. So, I can't tell from the pics, are those arched pieces glu-lam, or cut from bigger pieces?

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   PegHead | Aug 27, 2005 09:06pm | #2

   we cut the arches from 8x22's  about 12' long.

   Yep, 8 x 22's

   Given the arch carries no weight, we thought the timbers would be OK.

   I hope...

   thanks for the kind words.

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   donk123 | Aug 28, 2005 02:01am | #3

   Peghead,

   You do nice work. Who did the design? Why ipe pegs? How long did it take to build?

   Don

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   PegHead | Aug 28, 2005 07:21pm | #9

   Design was done by a friend/Architect who I respect---it was his client. He has a good sense of scale and I work with him quite a bit.As for time, we built it in the shop, I belive it was about 300 man hours to make it, and about 3 days to put it up.
   Very fussy install. It was all sanded with a 120gt RO sander, then 2 coats of Land Ark wood oil.

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   petmonkey | Aug 28, 2005 03:06am | #4

   mmm... i like timber.

   looks nice.

   You guys use a portable (hand held) band saw for your detail work?

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   fishdog | Aug 28, 2005 06:43am | #5

   Thing of beauty.what did you cut the 8x radius with?

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   notagain | Aug 28, 2005 01:08pm | #6

   Ohhhhhhhhh I soooooo want one!

   Great stuff.
   Rod

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   butch | Aug 28, 2005 01:30pm | #7

   Looks great,

   You got any more pictures of that?

   Close ups?

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   PegHead | Aug 28, 2005 07:16pm | #8

   Thanks guys, We used a Mafell portable band saw for the curves....had a lot of trouble at first, then with the new $65 nut that properly tensions the blade...very nice. Joinery was all mortise & tenon, Ipe pegs were really for color...they are a nice dark brown. I'll get a few pics together, they need to be adjusted for size.

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   PegHead | Aug 28, 2005 07:32pm | #10

   Here is a close up of a little hand cut Lamb's tongue we did on the posts. As well, a shop pre-assembly pic."there are 600 ways to loose money in this business...I don't know them all yet, but I'm trying"

   
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   DougU | Aug 29, 2005 02:53am | #11

   PH

   Really nice!

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   Hooker | Aug 29, 2005 05:10am | #12

   Very nice work Peg.  I'm impressed and looking forward to more pics of other cool stuff like that!I get paid to do carpentry.  That makes me a professional.

   If I work on my own house does that make me a DIY?

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   custombuilt | Aug 29, 2005 06:23pm | #13

   wow thats pretty!When in doubt, get a bigger hammer!

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   PegHead | Aug 29, 2005 11:04pm | #14

   So why do the same thing twice? Here is another cool job we did....while the bridge was hanging.We replaced the 2 towers...Very FUN!!

   
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   Hooker | Aug 30, 2005 12:13am | #15

   Man, that looks like a super fun one to do, properly set-up' you know.  How about more details.  I could get into this timber stuff!

   Got a closer pic of the bridge?I get paid to do carpentry.  That makes me a professional.

   If I work on my own house does that make me a DIY?

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   PegHead | Aug 30, 2005 12:40am | #16

   The bridge was 120' long and we figure weighed about 4THold your wallet, there are lots of ways to loose money in this game. Here is another pick for ya...one of my favorites.Take Care....BTW, my adopted home town is Milw. Home of the beer and the brave!

   Edited 8/29/2005 5:42 pm ET by PegHead

   
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   joewood | Aug 30, 2005 01:59am | #17

   Can you explain or show us how the wood structure attaches on to those cabels ?

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   PegHead | Aug 30, 2005 04:59pm | #19

   Well, they don't.The cables are resting in a stainless steel saddle. There are 4 cables on the bridge (that's how we were able to repair while hanging) 2 on each side. They are 7/8 overlaid bridge ropes--this refers to the way the wire is wrapped---so I had a SS saddle made by a friend. The top plate of the timber station is an 8x10 laid flat with a slot for the saddle on location. The saddle is held to the wood with a 1" pin. Gravity keeps it all glued. So the Engineer tells me, the weight of the bridge keeps the cable in place and balance keeps the tower plumb. Cool thing about this bridge is it wiggles when you walk it...regrettably, bureaucrats and codes would probably not allow something like this for the public. This is at a private outdoors club.

   
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   joewood | Aug 30, 2005 05:09pm | #20

   No, I meant where the vertical cabels come off of the draped cabels, how do the vertical cabels attach to the bridge deck ?

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   PegHead | Aug 30, 2005 05:13pm | #21

   Well, duh. Sorry.They have a cable clamp that holds a "ring eye down rod" with a nut on the bottom. Deck is a 4x4 beam, then joists from beam to beam. About 8' from beam to beam. Hope that helps.

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   andybuildz | Aug 30, 2005 02:09am | #18

   Yo Peg

   Way cool!!!! Only thing missing is the Buddah in front of the BBQ opening.

   Very nice work...great idea as well.

   Be well

   andy

   The secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!

   When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..

     I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,

   I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.

   I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you

   and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

    

    

   
    

    

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   cermides | Aug 30, 2005 09:42pm | #22

   Nice job on this.  Email me when you get a sec to let me know where you're located.  We're doing an article on Pergolas in the spring, and I would like to see if I can get pics of it for Fin Touch for that issue.

   thanks,

   Chris