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A buckle in the blocked floor.
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Is that wood or brick? Looks like wood, that's really neat
Maypost
Thu 02-23-2006
i find all of these buckled pictures very interesting.
spooky
Thu 02-23-2006
Maybe underneath those blocks there's a tree trying to break through.

I've never seen blocks buckle like this. Wood, yes. Brick, no.
Puddleboy
Thu 02-23-2006
Look at my post under the pic named Danger...
Tony C.
Thu 02-23-2006
I love this shot.
Jude
Thu 02-23-2006
I have seen the buckling happen in wood stage floors as well. The floors are built so tightly that when the wood gets wet it swells (like a dry sponge getting wet) and has no room to expand. Each block only swells up a little bit, but with so many blocks it adds up and they are foced to heave up.
SLS
Thu 02-23-2006
I remember that happening to my school hall's floor in winter.. Kids used to hop on parts, but somewhere else would pop up instead.
Such a lovely shot.
Wolfus
Sat 02-25-2006
This is absolutely gorgeous. :)
Turnish LaValiente
Thu 03-23-2006
You'll notice that the end grain is visible in all the blocks. Wood can handle more load in that direction. I worked for Avanti in the mid-80's in an ex-Studebaker facility about a block away from the this one. It had the same flooring, and if you didn't watch your step you could easily turn an ankle.
Steve
Tue 05-02-2006
Glad you got a close up.
Michele L
Thu 06-15-2006
these floors were origanly designed by ford in his plants, gm used them as well. it was for placement on machinery and assemblyline equipment. instead of cutting concrete and repouring to fit a need that changed from year to year, they would pull up the blocks they needed and "rearrange" the assembly line floor.
wayne
Fri 06-23-2006
wayne you are correct to a point. Like I said in earlier coments, these floors were probably in rooms where asembly of machines ,pieces etc, took place. my trade always has floors like this when heavy pieces are asembled day in and day out. Like I said before , in the event something drops wood absorbs the hit concrete wont.
figusmakem
Sat 06-24-2006
actually the wooden bricks are called cobbles, they were used to absorbed the noise and vibrations made from all the machinery
eric
Tue 03-25-2008

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