Thread: BobL's shed fit.

Hi Bob,

Good storage setup, shame it has to be in the shed. My shed is the same, full of garden stuff, can't move in the damn thing.

Do you have any option of excavating a little more depth under the house to make for easier storage there. What about some big roll out shelves under the house, like giant drawers for garden tools, (if you know what I mean).

Cheers
Pops

Originally Posted by Pops

Hi Bob,

Good storage setup, shame it has to be in the shed. My shed is the same, full of garden stuff, can't move in the damn thing.

Do you have any option of excavating a little more depth under the house to make for easier storage there. What about some big roll out shelves under the house, like giant drawers for garden tools, (if you know what I mean).

Cheers
Pops

Cheers Pops,

The under house area is already partially excavated. It's an area about 4 x 6 m and originally ranged in height from 700 to 900 mm - the ceiling is the wooden floor above. When the house was renovated I excavated it all out to a depth of 1200 mm and paved it with concrete slabs. I was worried about it filling with water If I was to excavate it any more that this.

Access is hands and knees through a 700 x 900 high hatchway, but the rest is all bricked up. Under there I have about 10 red-gum timber slabs (very awkward to maneuver though that doorway) and lots of timber and metal is stored on the floor joists. Then I also store heaps of "oh I might need that" (electric motors, chainsaw parts, electrical cable and parts, retic & plumbing parts and pipe, old tools, etc), and I also use it as a bit of a cellar. FInally the battery powered mower gets shoehorned into the doorway and there is not much room for anything else.

Originally Posted by BobL

It's 14 years old and apart from the electrical controls which have seen better days the rest is OK which is surprising since the body is just made of of plastic.

I used to be able to mow our small lawn 3 times on one charge but now, even thought the amount of lawn has been reduced by about half it just gets through it in one go but I guess the battery is 14 years old.

I have never been able to let the lawn get too high or it becomes a double pass operation so that has me mowing on a fairly regular basis - I guess that's a good thing.

My battery started to die and we put some a LIPO battery. In now it runs longer with grunt and the mower is much much lighter with out the lead acid battery.
You just have to finish all of the chores then you can go and play in the shed ok

Russell

After much mucking about and making the brackets twice I finally was able to start putting up the mesh shelves. Once the mesh was attached the whole shelving set becomes quite rigid.



The whole idea is that the 2 upper mesh shelves will have drip trays (still to be made) underneath to catch the drips from the saws. The bottom shelf (incomplete) will have jarrah boards and be used for chainsaw parts.




The underneath back of the brackets already have a lip welded on them that the back of the drip tray will sit on. The front of the drip tray will be suspended by a wire hook from the mesh shelf.

looking good

Russell

Looks very neat Bob

you just need to put a price on them and you would be in biz

Originally Posted by bigdb1

Looks very neat Bob

you just need to put a price on them and you would be in biz

Thanks Guys.

They'll work out to be pretty expensive but most things are when they are custom made like that. The mesh costs $17 a shelf, the 6 m of angle iron and 3 m of steel strap for the brackets cost $60. Hopefully I am getting the sheet metal for free - still have to hear back about that. The construction time, mainly the welding up of the brackets and the painting took ~3 hours. As usual I'm working for about $5 a hour

As usual I'm working for about $5 a hour

Bloody capitalist!

Looking good [as usual].

Perhaps I should have mentioned this earlier - when I was working in a double garage with plaster walls, I nailed one Hardie plank behind the bench [as a defender] which was put there to prevent any damage to the plaster - was painted the same colour as the wall and certainly did the job. I should imagine that placing chainsaws on the shelves --- sooner or later ----.

Regards,
Bob

Sweet

Originally Posted by BobL

... As usual I'm working for about $5 a hour

Gee's I'd be happy to get that much

Originally Posted by Bob38S

Looking good [as usual].

Perhaps I should have mentioned this earlier - when I was working in a double garage with plaster walls, I nailed one Hardie plank behind the bench [as a defender] which was put there to prevent any damage to the plaster - was painted the same colour as the wall and certainly did the job. I should imagine that placing chainsaws on the shelves --- sooner or later ----.

Regards,
Bob

Good idea!

Shelves look good. You do some very fine work.

I started working on my welding bench last weekend. It's a small one, only 600 x 900 mm in area. Smack bang in the middle of the front is a 25 kg 6" Dawn offset fabricated vice I picked up for free from a WWF member last year and refurbished it.

The vice is quickly removable and placed on an moved under the bench using a rotating triple hinge as shown in this clip.




More pics of the vice and bench are in this Metal workers forum thread. Pics start @ post #30.

I still have to add the bench top, add a bit more bracing to the middle shelf and then add the middle shelf. I'l need to keep the rust at bay with a lick of paint as well.

$5 an hour, I thought that was the going rate, glad I'm not the only one. Looking good Bob, I keep looking for ideas for my new workshop.