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tacticalplanner tacticalplanner |
concrete wall
Jul 13 2008, 6:35 PM EDT no zombie can bust down a concrete wall. if you can get ahold of enough, you can fortify your town (or a small vil). to get all that concrete, go with a construction site and a semi (for the wieght)! you could even build a mold for a concrete pungi spike to implant into your wall. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
 Happyman0 |
RE: concrete wall
Aug 20 2008, 12:06 AM EDT Wat if dead zombies stack up enough to get over your wall? Do you find this valuable? |
 Andering_J_REDDSON |
RE: concrete wall
Aug 20 2008, 12:25 AM EDT There are other issues as well. Alicestar pointed out that once concrete is hit, it can not be repaired easily. Alcari ineloquently pointed out the difficulties of working with concrete after the rise of the skin jobs, most crucially logistical (getting enough to make a difference) and structural (getting the wall itself UP). Concrete CAN be used, but it takes determination, experience, and a few sociopaths (people, like me, who have no or very little conscience) for construction site security. And excellent resource is the Barricade Materials page, http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/page/Barricade+Materials Do you find this valuable? |
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RonZombie RonZombie |
Murus Gallicus
Yesterday, 11:37 PM EST and expedient alternative to concrete was is the murus gallicus or the gallic wall. These wall where built around the settlements of the celts and first noted in Gaul (modern days france) by the romans as is contructed as described by Julius Caesar: "But this is usually the form of all the Gallic walls. Straight beams, connected lengthwise and two feet distant from each other at equal intervals, are placed together on the ground; these are morticed on the inside, and covered with plenty of earth. But the intervals which we have mentioned, are closed up in front by large stones. These being thus laid and cemented together, another row is added above, in such a manner, that the same interval may be observed, and that the beams may not touch one another, but equal spaces intervening, each row of beams is kept firmly in its place by a row of stones. In this manner the whole wall is consolidated, until the regular height of the wall be completed. ... it possesses great advantages as regards utility and the defence of cities; for the stone protects it from fire, and the wood from the battering ram, since it [the wood] being morticed in the inside with rows of beams, generally forty feet each in length, can neither be broken through nor torn asunder" by using all natural readily available material you build a strong wall that is more easly repaired or expanded. Do you find this valuable? |
