Big Wood

That's 280 bdft., 23.33 cubic feet. Assuming 69 pounds a cubic foot gives you just over 1600 pounds for that top. It'd make a good workbench, but probably not at the price they're asking!

JP

Try getting that into a house made this day and time.

Ipe you say? That ain't no table, that's a deck!

Didn't ask ;~)

Aircraft carrier class. :~) I e-mailed you.

If you ever got invaded, just tip over the table and set up your defenses behind it! That is assuming, of course, that there is somebody in your house who is strong enough to tip it over.

I wonder how much something like that would cost? And how much of that cost is freight? And what would be involved in installing one of those into the average home?

We could use that slab here in SoCal - as earthquake protection!

Dave

I hear references from time to time of the 1950s civil defense measures where, as kids, we were instructed to get down under our desks. In hindsight, it is laughable. But, this slab just might protect you from a nuclear holocaust.

Huge! Enormous! Who needs a table that large?

Well down here in Texas there are "large" ranch houses and in particular in the Brenham area. Most likely for entertaining and large family get togethers.

the "tuck & cover" was really an effective position... For body removal later

They just forgot the last instruction, which is "and kiss your ass goodbye"..

Mac

My guess would be the folks that build 8,000sf houses for 2 people to live in...

Mac

All I have to say is Wow!

LOL... Exactly, large houses need large furniture.

"Leon" wrote in news:Wxgsg.62413$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com:

That sounds familiar - it that where the ice cream is? Yum

Yeah, Blue Bell ice cream.

Hey, you never know - ipe has a Class A fire rating...!

Jason

I suspect that Bill Gates would have little trouble. Remember, while the little boxes made of ticky-tacky are the norm, they aren't the only kind that are being built.

Indeed. The subject line is very apropos of Bill Gates and his Washington home....

"Another sign of timberframing's resurgence is seen in the recent selling off of more than 7 million board feet of old-growth timber from the defunct Long-Bell Lumber mill in Longview, Washington. As Benson tells the story, word about the auction spread quickly among a new breed of timberframers who knew that wood of that size and quantity might never be seen again. The bidding quickly rose above the meager means of the average timberframer, and it was later learned that Bill Gates purchased the timbers for his multimillion-dollar home in Seattle."

JP