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sueveneer

How is this standing without a 4th "post/column?" How fascinating!

12 years ago
Deep Creek Lake, MD · More Info

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  • PRO
    12 years ago
    At the top of each stone column the wood beams are thu-bolted and attached to a galvanized steel bracket reinforced with steel angles vertically down through the stone columns. The two beams then act in an intersecting cantilever situation. However the success of the structural effort is that the wood trellis, carefully fastened, acts a diaphragm pinned at three points.
  • 12 years ago
    BRILLIANT! Thanks for the explanation :)
  • 11 years ago
    How long are these beams?
  • PRO
    11 years ago

    But, why?

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