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Thats pretty cool.
You know if its real, or photoshopped?
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It looks suspicious, but I did find this one from Australia.
Article here: http://tinyurl.com/2w3rj9
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Resized (using MS Paint).
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“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
I keep wondering how a person would best specify/detail that.
Liked the aussie house though, as it had an important detail the first photo did not--a course that stood proud to demarcate the difference between the square & twisted sections.
LOL, Have you ever seen smoke go straight up?It always swirls, so just spec that the chimney should match the swirl of the smoke
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Now you have me wondering if there might be technical merit to a twisteing chimney like that instead of just being decor minded?Old Johnson, in his "Wonder-Working Providence," speaking of the first settlers of this town, with whom he was contemporary, tells us that "they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter under some hillside, and, casting the soil aloft upon timber, they make a smoky fire against the earth, at the highest side." -Thoreau's Walden
I could probabaly make up a whole line of BS to convince you of just that, twisted imagination and all...;)
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You might have to rifle the insides of those chimney pipes. They look to be straight, even if the chimney isn't (assuming it isn't photoshop'ed).
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well ya know, I suppose that there actually could be a technical bennie to having a twisted chimney like that if the flue follows the twist,
in that the same principle of a Russian fireplace masonry heater, albeit in a much smaller respect, with the movement of the smoke and heat being slowed by the twists would radiate the heat into the brick for later release of the heat back within the insulation envelope of the house.
I supposeThe very simplicity and nakedness of man's life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at least, that they left him still but a sojourner in nature. When he was refreshed with food and sleep, he contemplated his journey again. He dwelt, as it were, in a tent in this world, and was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain-tops. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.-Thoreau's Walden
Does smoke swirl in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere?
Here we go!
Why doesn't the dirt fill the hole all the way back up anyhow? The very simplicity and nakedness of man's life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at least, that they left him still but a sojourner in nature. When he was refreshed with food and sleep, he contemplated his journey again. He dwelt, as it were, in a tent in this world, and was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain-tops. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.-Thoreau's Walden
R U trying to use dirt to fill the hole in Cloud's smoke rings?U gotta use the right kind of dirt - the political kind. It is used to smoke and mirrors
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cuz there's an inspector at the bottom ?.
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I thought that was why there was a need for concrete.
be a pad or overshoesThe man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper. We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. -Thoreau's Walden
uh, oh yeah right, the concrete helps keep em down there....
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And does smoke swirl the same way up as water does swirling down?For that amtter, do tornadoes and hurricanes take opposite directions south of the equator also?
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actually hurricanes do go the opposite way south of the equator
The two chimneys are twisted in different directions, could be the result of the coriolis effect.“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
Is that effect where you use digital imaging software to reverse a photo?;)
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Yes it is, you can do it with Paint if you want. Don't need directions either, it's too easy - anyone could do it. “The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume
Even someone as twisted as me!;)
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so just spec that the chimney should match the swirl of the smoke
"Brick Mason is to construct the chimney consistant with good practice and in excess of local code. Mason to assemble the chimney comporting to the average local path of rising smoke--but not in a way to compromise the structural integrity of the chimney, nor violate the continuity of the flue(s)"
'Izzat whacher mean?Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
One lousy paragraph? They should never gradgitated you from spec writing school. If tradesman can decipher it, it ain't enough words yet. Go back to your desk and complete the assignment!
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it ain't enough words yet. Go back to your desk and complete the assignment!
"Masons will perform to generally accepted levels of competence or better."
(Cheatin'; my boilerplate reads like: "[trade] will perform to generally accepted levels of competence or better." With [trade] being a keyphrase for merging into the document.)
Something about not having taken the verbose specs class seems to have "stuck" <g>.
Definitions Section (rather than the CSI silliness) so that we can, oh, define water just the once. Vis, "Water--fit for human consuption, unless specifically required otherwise, in writing, by trade contract."Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Just for the humour efferct - I know it isn't true - but you gotta be from a southwestern state to need to define "water", LOL
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but you gotta be from a southwestern state to need to define "water",
Nah, just a lazy cut-n-paste spec writer.
So, under General, you get that water is potable. Under Concrete, it's potable and free of debris & vegatable matter (like "potable" allows some fraction of branches and algae). Then, under Masonry, water is clean, free of debris, potable, free of vegetation, and hit for human consumption (huh, there's potable unfit for human consumption). Oh, and under Drywall/Interior finishes, water is undefined (which might explain some mud I've seen . . . ).
Now, I did see some lowballing hombres brought in to do some patchwork on a slab, and they dipped a five gallon bucket into a "rain" filled elevator pit to mix up their 11.875" slump 'sposed to be 2000 psi sidewalk mix (I don't go in that building any more).Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
main reason concrete water must be potable is, alot had problem with people using salt water along the coast. just some minerals do not like concrete.
concrete water must be potable is, alot had problem with people using salt water along the coast
Well, see, now, that's my "gripe" with the CSI "model" specs (and MasterSpec, too, if we're naming names). Any real professional is supposed to know that portland reactions are dependant on the water. Technically, we all really ought use RO water, as anything in the water (like muni Cl or Fl) is going to inhibit the portland-water reaction.
I'm not writing a spec for RO water, though <g>. I try to never have preventable redundancies like potable and fit for human consuption in the definition of water. My thinking remains, let's have the one definition, and every body uses it in the contract. Means never wondering if the d/w crew could use sweat for mud, or did we mention that the ice provided when temps exceed 75º for on-site drinking water, really, really, has to be made from potable water, too . . . (dang divil and hi' details <g>)Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Check out this site.
http://hearth.com/gallery/pics/chimney/index.html