Timeline for Will two 2x10 beams carry a a 2500lb floor for a tree house?
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| Apr 12, 2020 at 1:26 | comment | added | FDecker | Got it, I meant SE. Thank you :) | |
| Apr 2, 2020 at 21:18 | comment | added | Lee Sam | No, no...you want a SE or architect, not a CE. A CE can size a sewer pipe or layout a perfect parking lot, but cannot help you with this problem: a) differential load on middle third of beams with significant cantilever and affect of rotation on cantilever, and b) buckling of beam due to significant rotation load upon middle of beam...especially significant in 2x10. | |
| Apr 2, 2020 at 19:36 | comment | added | FDecker | Thank you Lee. As mentioned above, does making the platform part of the 2 beams as one large floor with joist hangers solve part of the problem? If so, he remaining problem is the lever action of all the weight on one side of a beam or the other. Then the light side would want to lift up. The special garnier limb mount will hold the weight, but when lifting up, the lag bolts holding the brackets on the bottom of the beams might not. Oddly enough, this drawing came from a tree building site! I'll look up a CE here. | |
| Apr 2, 2020 at 4:57 | history | answered | Lee Sam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |