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I don't mind at all. The Robson Valley is the mountain district where I live.
I thank your country for sending a big team of wildfire specialists. Our people are exhausted.
The southern part of our province is Hell on earth. Close to 40,000 people on the run. 250 lightning fires in 48 hours with BIG winds.
No. I have never baked a glue-up. I know that 3.5 minutes is an eternity when you are watching the clock!
I do know that as mass increases, I had to reheat again and again to see bubbles (the waxed dish as opposed to a spoon.)
So much of the interior of a wood block would remain unheated (wood is a pretty good insulator), I don't think that the
differences in expansion rates would lead to a crack. I have more unfounded theories if you need any.
Some popular adhesives claim greater strength than the woods on either side. Maybe a scrap glue-up of junk wood might
be a revealing experiment?
Brian
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Our local news media is sooo parochial I haven't seen anything about the fires - they are too focussed on boring local politics. I'm glad that Australian experience can be put to good use. We have enough of the hellish fires here because our dominant eucalypts are living firestarters - literally, that is how they dominate the ecosystem. I presume it is coniferous forests going up in Canada?
I agree, some trials of the glue, oil and bake would be worthwhile. I'll add that to my list! Maybe others reading here could do so too and we can compare photos and notes?
David
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Yeah, any kinds of junk wood glue-ups would be ideal. We need to know, we need the experience.
Carving, I don't have any of that sort of dimension scrap to mess with.
Worst hits were dry grassland ranch hills with scattered Ponderosa pines. Fire storms.
Further north here would be Douglasfir (aka your Oregon) then into the real boreal forest of
Lodgepole pine, spruce and the cedars.
Based on experience with good friends over the past 20 years, a lot of BC homestead history has gone up in smoke.
I lived in Melbourne for 4 years, late '68 - late '72. Clear memories of grass firestorms and huge bush/forest fires.
That's why we need your experience and familiarity to take over so our people can rest.
We have crew coming from all across Canada as well.
I'm well away far north of fires (so far) but the smoke today is back to 250m at best.
Yesterday, we could see clouds in the sky.
The worst starts maybe tomorrow when they go back into some areas to see who got burnt out and who is OK.
