Mystery Tour: Victorian Iron ~15ft I-Beams?

[ferdinand]

I'll return to the other thread in a bit - just checking up on what I have lying around to act as "spacers" between drying timber beams.

In the meantime I have another mad question.

I also found a pair of 5m (OK 5 paces) x about 10"x10" (have not measured precisely yet) square Victorian I-Beams.

These came out of the same building as the pitch pine beams, and I assume were used to provide the backbone of the structure. Yes, they are on top of the other end of the pitch pine beams ;-)

Would this be more a specialist salvage site rather than ebay?

(And the bush appears to have grown since they were put there)

Rgds

Ferdinand

 

[Dibs-h]

Try Salvoweb.co.uk thats's probably the sort of site that would have people that are interested in this sort of thing.

 

[9fingers]

These beams have a different cross section to modern rolled steel beams and therefore may be difficult to use where meeting building regs is required.
Specific calculations could well be needed to satisfy the inspectors but apart from that, ideal for under-rated use in non notifiable applications.

see http://www.efunda.com/designstandards/b ... BeamsS.cfm

What a fascinating haul. When I had to clear out my father's amateur workshops and sheds from a lifetime of 'collecting' about 13 years ago, we had enough stuff for a 440 lot auction and made £2500 in the money of the day.

Bob

 

[Hitch]

Is that one of the victorian beams in that picture?

Id say it wasn't. Looks like a day to day 'universal beam'
The toes of each flange are paralell, unlike what might have been in Victorian times.
I think UBs took over in most situations in the 50s or 60s. So it might have been there a day or two, but not Victorian

 

[ferdinand]

Is that one of the victorian beams in that picture?

Id say it wasn't. Looks like a day to day 'universal beam'
The toes of each flange are paralell, unlike what might have been in Victorian times.
I think UBs took over in most situations in the 50s or 60s. So it might have been there a day or two, but not Victorian

That is what I thought, but challenges like that are very welcome indeed !

I think it definitely came from the same place at the same time on the same lorry, and that entrance has not been used since. And it wouldn't be on that pile unless

I also can't find any work done in the demolished building done recently (we had the mill in Nottingham from about 1975).

I think I'll will measure the actual dimensions.

I'm confident that *this* one isn't oak, though.

Ferdinand

 

[Hitch]

When you measure it, try and get the thickness of the flange and the web.

It may appear to be an imperial sized beam, but modern metric UBs are i strange sizes.... such a 203x133, 254x102, 305x165 are a few....They are the mean sizes, but on heavier steels, the sizes increase by a few mm.

So although you could have 2no 254x102 beams, but one a heavier section, one will actually measure 254x102, while the heavier one nearer 258x110 for example.


Farmers love stuff like that btw

 

[ferdinand]

When you measure it, try and get the thickness of the flange and the web.

It may appear to be an imperial sized beam, but modern metric UBs are i strange sizes.... such a 203x133, 254x102, 305x165 are a few....They are the mean sizes, but on heavier steels, the sizes increase by a few mm.

Farmers love stuff like that btw

Heh. Love that.

All direct translations of exact imperial sizes into mm.

Typical.

Ferdinand