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“They don’t really do any wood construction at all over there.
Everything is always done with concrete because there are no
trees,” he said. “They are not traditional users of wood, so this is
going to be a very new thing for them.”
Lincoln says the project contractors sent a small group of
engineers and Saudi government officials to American Pole and
Timber’s headquarters and manufacturing facility in Houston,
Texas, for three days in May so they could see first-hand how gun
barrel poles were made and learn the basics of wood construction.
According to Lincoln, the crash course included looking at
the characteristics of wood, how various treatments affect its
longevity and what kinds of treatments are available for different
types of applications.
For the Saudi Arabian project, the timber pilings were made
from southern yellow pine (gun barrel poles are also available in
white pine, western red cedar, white cedar and oak). Because they
were being installed in salt water, the pilings were treated with a
2.5 pcf CCA wood preservative and they were also treated with a
special polymer coating to provide additional protection.
Gun barrel pilings are purported to be excellent choices in
applications in or near water. American Pole and Timber maintains
that because they have no exposed heartwood as many
square timbers have, the poles are less susceptible to attack by
termites and marine borers, and their round shape also enables
them to withstand storm surges better than square timber pilings.
Importance of aesthetics
According to Lincoln, the gun barrel poles are often used in applications
where aesthetics are a primary consideration, which is why a
growing number of zoos, theme parks and vacation resorts are now
using them in the U.S. and other locations around the world, such
as Hong Kong, Jamaica and Belize.
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