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they don't use less wood than a straight fence though :)
by helb 3y ago
they don't use less wood than a straight fence though :)
- shirleyquirk 3y agothey should be able to. same physics applies, right? poles dont have to be as thick or as deep to resist the same torque, and if you could somehow make the pales curvy/corrugated, they could be thinner, too.
- sn9 3y agoWooden fences tend to be only a plank thick, so there's no savings like there are with brick walls where the savings come from getting to build a single layer thick.
- helb 3y agoYeah exactly… I guess there might be some waviness/height/length ratio where the extra length and the absence of posts evens out.
- sn9 3y agoJohn Cook actually goes into the math of that here: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/19/crinkle-crankle-calculus/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/19/crinkle-crankle-ca...
- Maxion 3y agoRaw lumber is much cheaper than sawn lumber, though. It's OK to use more, as long as the volume increase and price decrease works out favorably.