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   MarkH | Jan 05, 2014 08:19pm | #1

   That's very very interestink.

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   DanH | Jan 05, 2014 08:54pm | #2

   Well, when you've already used up all the BIG pieces of wood...

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   sapwood | Jan 06, 2014 11:46am | #3

   Ha Ha! Good one, Mongo. Great photoshop job... we all know that nobody could really frame that on purpose. Not even the guy who built my house would have done that and he had some "unique" solutions. 

   Good one..... Now give us the real story. 

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   Mongo | Jan 06, 2014 01:01pm | #4

   nope...

   ...unfortunately, that is the real story. No kidding.

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   gfretwell | Jan 06, 2014 02:57pm | #5

   It is hard to believe you can use that much wood and end up with so little actual structural strength.

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   strawmyers | Jan 06, 2014 03:51pm | #6

   There's no way I'm walking on that... super scary.

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   Mongo | Jan 06, 2014 04:05pm | #7

   The perfect storm

   It really is The Perfect Storm of Structural Instability.

   He sistered full length uncut joists to the existing side joists with lags.

   Then he filled in with cut pieces.

   Simply extraordinary.

   Back in my teens I worked with a guy who would take small and strangely shaped rigid foam board insulation offcuts and puzzle them together. We called him "Pieces".

   This guy need to play some Patsy Cline when he walks on that floor: "I'll Fall Though Pieces..."

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   DanH | Jan 06, 2014 08:11pm | #8

   Kinda reminds me of some of the concrete  form work I saw in Mexico.  The guys would arrive with a pickup load of lumber and plywood, no piece larger than about 3 feet.  And rusty hand saw, an old claw hammer, and some recycled nails.  They'd form up, say, the roof of a 15x20 bath building.  The roof would be poured with a soup made of cement and some caliche soil dug up from somewhere.  And somehow it would hold.