<<<So what kind of wood is that you have found? And how come you don't have a pickup truck to get it home? I've been buying redwood for my aquarium stand. It has to support 800 lbs. I built it out of 4x4s and 2x6s with 3/8 inch lag bolts. Looks to me like it ought to survive a 9 Richter earthquake.>>>
Have you looked into the effects of quakes on small tanks? I bet there are some fishy people out there who have calced this out. Spearimented. It's interesting; an interesting project. I mean, obviously an 800 lb tank is going to have some nice fish in it (well, special) ~ fish you don't want to flip out.
Quake resistance is interesting work. Sort of musical.
Zoos, maybe, get to invest in them. Hey! Aquariums! They have fish!
Meet someone! A chick! Discuss details! Yowsa!
I mean, if you're going to build it, might be able to build it with dampers in addition to strength. Cheap ones. Isolation. Avoid the slosh nosh.
(JUST saw a preview for The Big Lebowski!! Gotta see it again. Remember Jesus?)
The wood we found was some really nice pressure treated brown-dye "Jasper Wood." 2 by 6. The structural ones were dense, straight, good grain. YIPPY!
YIPPY YIPPY!!
There is little better in Life, honest, than needing some ground contact and going to the yard and them having some good stuff. Feels very chancy driving up to the piles. If the boards are straight, I check the endgrain of the whole unit. If it looks good, I dump some out. Twist and flip them; flip them off the pile and listen to the way they hit the ground. Look for little checks, which the soaking wet conditions here make easy to see.
You should feel the deck. Minimal flexion. Hee hee ~ I'm kind of proud of it. We jump up and down.
Good old chromated copper arsenate. (Snort.) We had all these different heights and level changes and it's such a hassle without straight wood. The decking itself is similar brown "Jasper Wood," but non-perforated, non-structural stuff.
The guy who drove it up here couldn't find our driveway. Then he got out of his truck, and when we saw him he said getting out had led him to "follow the music." (Standard job-site ID.)
If I may, what are the dims of the tank? (Just for our records.)
Water weighs what.....64 lbs/cf? Eleven cubic feet? About two feet high, four and a half long, 16 inches deep?
Biggest fish, currently five and a half inches? Eats fish food? |
