Thread: A big shed. A long time coming.

Looking good Wayne.
Glad to see you making progress on this, I know you’ve been waiting a long time to get started. Looks like you’ve got plenty of space because you’ll need it to fit all your gear in and still have room to move!

I give Wayne a year, before he fills it and needs to build "additions" or "storage sheds"

12 Mth, I haven't even got the cladding on my shed and I'm looking at extending. Decided I don't want ladders cement mixers etc etc in my shed, so they getting there own tool cave.

Originally Posted by hiroller

Looking good Wayne.
Glad to see you making progress on this, I know you’ve been waiting a long time to get started. Looks like you’ve got plenty of space because you’ll need it to fit all your gear in and still have room to move!

Thanks hiroller.

Yes, we've spent a little time this week rebuilding the awning roof adjacent to the new shed so that there's no gap between them. Once that's done I will start to move some equipment into the new space. That will be the start of some really interesting posts, I think.

Regards - Wayne

Originally Posted by Pat

I give Wayne a year, before he fills it and needs to build "additions" or "storage sheds"

Well, ummm.... yeah! Probably not even a year, Pat. I've started to move a few items into the shed already - mainly pieces which need some restoration. It's amazing how quickly that huge space starts to fill up. I'm already planning to build an awning roof on one side of the shed.

Regards - Wayne

Originally Posted by rod watson

ooh , that's looking excellent , envy the height ,well done

Yes, I purposely chose the 5 metre high option so I could put a big mezzanine floor at one end of the shed, Rod. Obviously more expensive, but it give you a lot of options internally.

Regards - Wayne

Originally Posted by Brian45

12 Mth, I haven't even got the cladding on my shed and I'm looking at extending. Decided I don't want ladders cement mixers etc etc in my shed, so they getting there own tool cave.

Yes, you're right Brian. One of the first things you need to decide & prioritise is what equipment gets to take up space in your shed. Things like ladders and cement mixers can survive under a simple awning roof. It doesn't matter how big your shed is... a lot of stuff just doesn't need to be in there.

Regards - Wayne

Another progress update, with a few days involved in finishing external cladding, gutters, roofing & cappings etc.

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I have recently bought an auction-lot of pallet racking which I will set up around some side walls inside the shed, and will create work benches out of the racking components at the same time. I can't pick it up for another 2 weeks so I will begin to move some of the various machinery into the new shed in the interim.

I also want to disassemble the existing awning shelter adjacent to the new shed, and extend the awning roof another metre so that it buts right up against the new end wall. I was lucky enough to pick up a -load of structural steel at another auction a couple of years ago. It was held at a TAFE college in western Sydney and you had to bid on the disassembly and removal of a monstrous shed from the site. It was a peculiar shape as it was around 120 metres long x 5 metres high, but was only 4.2 metres wide.

I got the TAFE shed for virtually nothing, but then spent a fair of time in taking it apart and moving it all up to the Central Coast. All of the component are hot-dip galvanised and are very useful. More than 60 universal beams (200mm x 100mm x 5.7m long) complete with all associated 150mm & 100mm posts, C-Purlins and roofing etc. I will utilise this material for the construction of the awning roof and also for the internal mezzanine floor.

Pictures of the first equipment inhabitants shortly.

Regards - Wayne

G’day Wayne,

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Ross

That is what i call a significant addition!!

G'day Ross/Guys.

For some reason the images in the last post won't open. I think my session may have timed-out before I posted, and the uploaded images are therefore deleted by default. Anyway, these are the few images which show the completed cladding roofing & cappings, as well the roller-doors properly installed and aligned.

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As mentioned above, the next chore is to rebuild the existing section of awning immediately behind the new shed, so that the rebuilt awning roof will be continuous right up to the new shed. This is a little bit more difficult than it sounds, with steel posts to be embedded in concrete pier holes, new connection plates welded on, steel universal beams to be lifted in position and then timber framing and roofing to be installed. Another 3-4 days work which I didn't want to do right now, but it will be worth it in the long run.

Regards - Wayne

Wayne,

Your going to be a very happy chappy when it’s all done.

Ross

I see you have a scissor lift which you have found useful in errecting the shed. Not sure about its use for scaffolding. Perhaps delete that image.

A bit of renovation work required to the existing large awning shelter behind the new shed so that the awning roof buts right up to the new wall. There was originally a 600mm gap between the two roof surfaces. This will keep all the rain & weather out of the awning area which is used for storage of tractor, quad bike, log splitter, poo-vac, mowers etc... all of the stuff which doesn't need to take up room in the salubrious shed. I'll also install the compressor and dust extraction system into this under-cover area when I get around to those requirements.

As mentioned above, I will utilise & recycle existing metal post & beams that I have on site for these works. A fair bit of cutting & welding of heavy-section steel required for this, but the end result is as solid as a battleship.

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I can't pickup the pallet racking I purchased at auction for another week, so I can't set up the storage shelving I require just yet. In the meantime I have started to move a few items of machinery into the shed to get an idea of layout. One of the first pieces is an F600 Omega/Stubby bowl lathe I purchased around 3 years ago, along with a nice lot of accessories (Gary Pye chuck, curved tool rests, bowl saver, chisel handles etc. It's a bit strange, but I had never even seen this lathe first-hand until now. I bought it from a guy up near Forster (NSW) sight unseen and had my brother pick it up for me while he was in the area. It has been in his shed ever since, but remained unused for that whole time. Some light surface rust to the exposed surfaces to be removed which I will try to do as each piece is moved in, as well as a generous lube/protection coating of my favourite product, Lanox.

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Another favourite piece is the Waldown floor-stand drill which has been fully restored and which has had a variable speed control fitted by Parken Machinery in Melbourne. I'm a great fan of beautiful Australian made machinery, and Omega/Stubby, Waldown and Parken are great examples. If you haven't used a stand-drill with variable speed before, it's a game changer - like most things with VSD adaptors fitted. The steel shaft of this machine has some surface rust from sitting around as well. You will see that I have already cleaned the top of it up so I could use it for drilling out the new end-plates for our steel posts etc. Not sure why the image seems to be loading sideways, even though it's saved as an upright file. Mods?

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Plenty more images of machinery to come. Plenty.