Why do clamp racks have fingers?

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Re: Why do clamp racks have fingers?

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Hand screws are great fo holding small parts while drilling small parts. They make a great vise for cutting small parts on a scroll saw. I have used larger hand screws to pull 4x4s into alignment while building some garden beds. Very useful everyone should have a few in their shop.
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This is off subject, BUT I have to ask. Aren't those treated lumber? Isn't treated lumber dangerous to use for garden beds? I'm just asking because that is what I was told.[/quote]

I think you are correct except that those beds do not appear to me to be made with treated lumber. Painted on the ends but not treated.[/quote]
The bed in the foreground looks a bit treated, look at the back side 2nd one up, looks green to me. And if not for a commercial place lots of expense
and work to recoup in a home garden. Especially if have access to a farmers market.
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Re: Why do clamp racks have fingers?

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I am surmising that is either a kit that came with painted lap joints or they were painted by the 'poster'.

As for color of the timber, blame the weather and the sun.


I woulda used large c clamps(or short pipe clamps) and a couple of short 2x4 because that is what I have.

Those are nice screw(Jorgensen) clamps though!
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Re: Why do clamp racks have fingers?

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Does Pressure-Treated Wood Belong in Your Garden?
Here’s the information to help you decide
by Ruth Lively
Kitchen Gardener issue 15

http://www.finegardening.com/does-press ... our-garden

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