Thread: Mobile Shed

You know what they say Bushmiller, 'happy wife, happy life'. However, I doubt that your wife will be nearly as impressed with your efforts as I am.

Somehow the pix played up and inserted at the foot of the previous post, but at least they appeared. I hate it when I go through all the ritual of loading and they appear as an "attachment."

I will post them again with the appropriate wording:

At long last I have found purpose for those hitherto useless space saver wheels. How I hated them and this is without me ever having had to use them!

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The virtually finished article. The flashing was made up from old roofing iron.This was from necessity as I wacked a roo in the ute and it was off the road being repaired. This precluded me buying the flashing in Toowoomba.

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The shed is just over 3m wide and nearly 6m long including the small overhang.

I will be collecting water off this shed. For the moment I have a couple of 200L drums, but the plan is to use three bulky bins (1000L each) and place them up on old tyres packed with crusher dust. They don't have to be up high, but it gives a little more water pressure for watering the garden without resorting to a pump. I have all the bits and just have to find the time.

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Cost was about $600 in materials, mainly for paint and screws and about $20000 for my labour! I'm billing SWMBO, but she's an awful payer. I think we might have to work something out... You know, tea on time: That sort of thing .

I have the axle (60mm sootblower tube rated to about 400 deg C), which has to be made in three bits as it cannot be slotted in from one side, but that can wait a little.

Regards
Paul

Paul great build.
Great use or repurposing that's trendy.
My only concern is the space saver wheels you intend to use to tow the shed around, I think they have a maximum speed of around 60 kph.
You may just need to check that.

You have also gained plenty of saw hanging real estate.
But I'm sure that was really the plan all a long[emoji12].

Cheers Matt

Matt

All of Millmerran is a 50KPH zone except the highway, which is 60KPH. I was looking at the tyres today and noticed that they have to be inflated to 60psi. Must be for the tight bends so the shed does not pull the tyres off the rims.

Don't mention hanging saws in the shed. There was nearly a divorce when SWMBO thought I had taken over her shed when she noticed some welding going on inside it. Turns out it was for the shed itself. However, there was an uncomfortable two or three days without food.

Regards
Paul

Im liking it. Only read post 1.

I will return

DaveTTC
The Turning Cowboy
Turning Wood Into Art

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Matt

All of Millmerran is a 50KPH zone except the highway, which is 60KPH. I was looking at the tyres today and noticed that they have to be inflated to 60psi. Must be for the tight bends so the shed does not pull the tyres off the rims.

Don't mention hanging saws in the shed. There was nearly a divorce when SWMBO thought I had taken over her shed when she noticed some welding going on inside it. Turns out it was for the shed itself. However, there was an uncomfortable two or three days without food.

Regards
Paul

Paul,
You bring up an interesting point.
Regarding an uncomfortable two or three days without food.
Now please don't think I'm trying to run your thread of course through some stupidity or anything.
But with today's high technology society would it not be possible for us in this forum to gather an elite group of members who in the unlikely situation you were recently put through, put together and emergency food parcel and have it dropped off under the cover of darkness using a drone and GPS technology.
Avoiding any partner conflict.

Cheers Matt

I'm hoping the draw bar will be at the closed end. The other way round will cause considerable drag as you head into Brisbane.

If you sat the big water tank on the A Frame when parked up it woyld privide ballast to resist lift from a westerly or whatever dirrection wind you may fear. You'd need to drain the tank and remove for towing .... might impede on your turning circle 🤣

DaveTTC
The Turning Cowboy
Turning Wood Into Art

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Paul,
You bring up an interesting point.
Regarding an uncomfortable two or three days without food.
Now please don't think I'm trying to run your thread of course through some stupidity or anything.
But with today's high technology society would it not be possible for us in this forum to gather an elite group of members who in the unlikely situation you were recently put through, put together and emergency food parcel and have it dropped off under the cover of darkness using a drone and GPS technology.
Avoiding any partner conflict.

Cheers Matt

Matt

I don't think that would avoid the conflict as it would have already happened. However it could prevent starvation and I will keep your kind offer in mind.

Regards
Paul

Dave.

The drawbar is indeed at the closed end. There is a very good reason for this and it is that at the other end there is nothing to attach it to!!

If the worst comes to the worst and I am in the dog house (and not allowed to use the studio) I could throw my saws on the ute, hitch up the shed and head North.

Regards
Paul

I really do think you need a floor otherwise all yout work benches etc will gather at one end. Not sure how well the legs will wear.

That said, when you are done if you want to make another and tow it down to Dooen I coyld use one too

DaveTTC
The Turning Cowboy
Turning Wood Into Art

Dave

I don't think those wretched space saver tyres will be up to Millmerran/Dooen.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Dave

I don't think those wretched space saver tyres will be up to Millmerran/Dooen.

Regards
Paul

Yes but saying that you could hang some spare ones on the walls lol.

Not to upstage or hijack your thread, but my mobile shed is permanently mobile. A fully enclosed Car Trailer with lift up side and back door, for shade. It'll be up for sale soon, if anyone's interested. I'm asking $3,000 currently set up as a mobile engineering workshop, has 3 fluro lights, 3 double power points, and a 15 amp switched socket. Sorry the equipment and contents won't be included.
Fitted with Toyota 2wd Hilux rims (Ford Stud pattern) and new light truck tyres


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Kryn

I have this obsession, well another one I suppose I would have to concede, about water. It is with this in mind that I have set up a temporary water storage for catchment off the mobile shed roof. The water is intended for the garden and because of that I wanted the tanks to be elevated so there was a little bit of gravity assisted pressure.

As I did not want to build a stand, which would have been substantial to support the three 1000L bulky bins, I used old tyres filled with crusher dust. The dust needs to be rammed and there is a tendency for the old tyres to close up. This is most noticeable with the 100% aspect tyres. The lower profile tyres such as the one pictured are not so much of a problem but I still made up short pegs (100mm to 150mm long) to prop open the tyre:

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Tyres stacked three high was the maximum I could go and the twenty four tyres took a little over two tons of crusher dust:

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I already had a rammer made from 3/4" pipe with an end cap screwed on. For this purpose it was better than a crowbar as that would have been a little too heavy. The rammer served to compact and force the dust inside the curvature of the tyres.

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I knew I would have to do some leveling as the tyres were all different sizes (mainly 15" and 16" but different tread widths and different profiles) so I did not trouble to level the ground first. I had some demolition timber I used for this purpose.

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The bulky bins are in place :

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with the plumbing connected:

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A connection for a 3/4" hose, which is where another valve is required:

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and trimmed off because I know you blokes would insist


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An improvised inlet strainer made from aluminium screen mesh and tie wire:

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I still have to put one extra valve on the left hand end. This storage cost a little more than I was anticipating. The bulkies were $45 each (an OK price), the crusher dust was $30 per ton, but the fittings for the plumbing were almost $150! There were no valves included in that as the bulkies have their own valve: Just for plastic pipe fittings!

Now I only need some rain. I was hoping to take a pic of that, but nature did not oblige.

Regards
Paul