Plywood

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Does Plywood go by Boxcar or Centerbeam?

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Boxcar

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[#ditto]

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I’ll agree boxcar, with one caveat - I’ve seen plywood (that arrived in TBOX’s) depart on centerbeams, but only after being turned into truss-joists (wooden I-Beams, more or less).

And they were a wrapped load then.

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I’ve been in the industry for 22 years now and I have never seen plywood on a center beam. Hope it helps.

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Much appreciated!

Thanks

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So what’s in those plastic wrapped square blobs that are forklift loaded onto centrebeams please?

[:P]

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Packs of timber (lumber) ie: 2x4’s

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As James said, also you see alot of Louisiana Pacific center beams around that are loaded with wrapped bundles of aspinite or (gypsum?) board. Forgive the spelling please.

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And this for good reason. Even an exterior grade cannot take that much moisure especially days of continuous rain as it sits waiting classification.

Here’s a great example: Friday, I sheathed a friends garage roof with 5/8" CDX. Against my reccomendation to buy the stock at my normal lumber yard, he needed to use a Home Depot card for the project. Since it was only a garage, I used the crap anyway. It rained Friday evening and into Saturday AM. The HD CDX couldn’t take even one good soaking w/o buckling and starting to delaminate. I was hoping to let it dry out before roofing to see if the some of the worst sheets needed to be changed. If this was the 5 ply fir instead of the 4 ply pine junk that HD tries to pass off as a comparable product, I know from experience that the entire roof woudn’t even have as much as a wave or distortion. Another case of why I don’t buy Home Center lumber. Would you really like this as a base in your layout? I know it doesn’t rain in your basement, but why use substandard materials to save a few $$.

So much for my rant, but I wanted to let those less experienced, know that much of the stock at a home center really is garbage.

I would usually have Sunday as a day off, but guess what, I have some plywood to change and at least paper it if not roof today.

Anyone still wodering why plywood isn’t shipped on a centerbeam?