Crushed wood is stronger than steel

Re:Crushed wood is stronger than steel by burger_moon on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:43AM (#16332275)

This used to be very common for machine shops to have wood floors, I found an article detailing it with some pictures. I worked in a couple shops that had wood floors, they were nothing to look at, it was an industrial setting after all. https://web.pa.msu.edu/services/machine-shop/shopfloor.htm

At Amazon in the new Day 1 building their main staircase to the lobby is built from wood ends and it is done very nicely. It looks great. There's probably pictures online of that.

edit, I found one picture from a geekwire article. Unfortunately you can't see the grain, the picture is from a far. https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161107...

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Re:Crushed wood is stronger than steel by dsfyu404ed on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:16AM (#16332525)

>This used to be very common for machine shops to have wood floors

That is done because wood is soft and if you drop a tool or part on the floor it's far less likely to be damaged. Wood has been superseded by (usually vinyl IIRC) tile and/or rubber/plastic mats in a lot of places.

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Re:Crushed wood is stronger than steel by bobf on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:30AM (#16332674)

It's also done for the comfort of the people working there. Standing on concrete all day is more tiring than on a wooden floor.

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