Yeah, it's the tall posts needed to accommodate the giant, that make the potential for high forces. Not such a big deal if the posts stay plumb, and you don't swing on them too hard. I even found an example in freedom units, cause most people don't remember what a newton is.
I haven’t done that stuff since the late 80’s, but when you add a second vertical post tied together with a crosspiece, it radically changes that system.
Would mixing post size look funky? 6x6 might be smart for the tallest posts. I'm having trouble figuring if it would looked fucked or fine.
I don't think it would look funky. It would look intentional. The man has enough worries about being taken out by ceiling fans, don't make him worry his pull up bar might collapse on him!
Any electricians in the house? Wifey was running a space heater which must've overloaded the circuit or something as it shut off but didn't trip the breaker. Now, everything "downstream" of that outlet doesn't work and everything "upstream" does. I thought it might've fried the old outlet so I put a new one in and still have the problem. I hooked up a multimeter to it and I have 120v if I put the leads on the hot and ground wire but if I just do the hot and neutral, the voltage jumps around 3-10 volts.
That “no power downstream” part sounds scary to me. Like a wire shorting in the wall or something. Do you have a GFIC outlet wired in series somewhere by chance? Might need to be reset. I’d 100% kill the breaker and call a sparky if it were me. Hidden electrical fires give me nightmares.
Ok, I think I figured it out. Upstream is a GFCI outlet that I reset, tested, reset again the plug was full power so I didn't think that was it. But when I pulled the receptacle from the box and tested it, juice coming in was fine Juice going out wasn't. I bypassed it and everything downstream works perfectly fine now. I'll grab another GFCI outlet and report back once it's installed.
Nice! GFICs go bad and get old, believe it or not. As an aside, watching Electroboom test GFI circuits in hotels as he travels with his family is fucking hilarious.
You don't have to go full cube, but if you flare the two outer bars slightly (so instead of being in line with the center bar 180 degrees, it'd be more like 160 degrees) that would give you a lot of the benefit of a cube without altering the shape much. Because they're pullup bars, the vast majority of the forces on them will be vertical; horizontal strength is really only needed for stabilization.
I know what you are trying to say, but that is for digging holes. If you want to put fence posts in, a fence post pounder would work better, something similar to a pic a found below.
As an insurance agent, this thread scares the shit out of me from time to time. You would not believe the stupid shit people do, from dumbass kids to dumbass adults and even some of the smartest ones.
https://www.bc1c.ca/ One call, and they call everyone that has stuff on your property to mark it. Well in our province anyways.
It is in reference to the pull up bar project I was posting about before. Aaaand I have hit something when I was sinking some posts. Luckily it was just underground sprinkler lines. I got to dig a lot to fix that one myself and will never forget it. In the pic I posted they are digging holes for those extra extra huge power line poles... Though they are hollow, I don't think "pole" is the right word
I hit a small gas service line that ran to a restaurant while driving a probe in the ground looking for storm pipe. It hissed until the gas company got there to repair it. They also dispatched what looked like every fire truck in Virginia Beach. There was never a fire.
Those are called monopoles I believe. I contract with drilling companies for almost every one of my projects. Standard procedure is to put in a one call ticket ( the utilities then come out and mark their lines) , and we usually contract with a private utility locating firm, and also hand dig the first 5 feet at a minimum. Years ago I was working on a typical job where we were drilling borings to sample the soil , when the driller noticed the auger wasn’t turning properly. They raised the auger string and there was a heavy cable wrapped around the bit. It was about that time we got a call that a portion of Jersey City was now without power. It turns out the the power company marked out the lines wrong. Luckily the lines had lead shielding, and the auger bent the lead so that it contacted the cable, shorted it out, and tripped the breakers at the substation down the road. It’s only pure luck that I’m still alive. What usually happens in these situations is that the drill rig becomes electrified and explodes killing the crew. Google it- but it’s not pretty.
@Misanthropic Yes! I GIS'd monopole and that is indeed what they are installing. A whole lot of them, actually.
Has anyone gone from gas burners to induction? I use to sell both and know that induction is the better performer but just because it performs better doesn't mean you'll like it better.* We have a 36" pro range now and we like the look/performance of it but for the new place we're thinking a double wall over (or convection micro, oven, warming drawer combo) and separate cooktop. We could do a rangetop which would give us pro burner performance but I'm iffy on their styling and this house has a bigger amp electric box so we can do whatevs electrical wise. *Teslas are ridiculously quicker than my car, but I wouldn't take one over it.