01-10-2010, 09:41 AM
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Originally posted by Wao nahele kane
LOL... yeah, a hardwood like bangkirai compared to relative softwood crap firs. LMAOROF. Not tested... LOL... try again.
http://www.indonesiasakti.com/materials.html
If ever there were a lamer argument to support an illegal trade act... point it out please!
This material far exceeds any U.S. grown timber for use as a structural member. U.S. lumbers cant even hold a candle to it.
Anyone with half a brain cell and who has worked with these types of hardwoods wouldn't even consider challenging them in such a manner.
Evidently the CoH administrator who's enacted this ban cheated his way through college too cause the stupidity in his position is self evident to anyone with half an oz. of common sense in this industry.
While we're at it; why don't we just ban aluminum for building aircraft and use pot metal instead... what a load of BS.
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.
Uh, that's easy to answer . . . because aluminum has been tested, and because it has nothing to do with the CoH.
Nobody here is arguing with you about the strength of bangkirai, which you seem to be repeating again and again. It's a matter of simply getting the ESR done by ICC. Same for any other building material permitted for structural use in CoH.
It's likely a waste of time for you to declare someone you don't know at CoH a senseless, stupid cheater, when you don't seem to be really focusing on the issue.
Perhaps you can try framing in doug fir and siding in merbau for a similar look? Or, just go ahead and build unpermitted in bangkirai, forget the permit and forget the insurance. CoH has no authority to prevent you from importing a container of bangkirai here.