A Real Workshop

[Scally]

Thanks Jim
I am running out of time as I will attempt to stand the posts tomorrow.

I would like to knock the edge off the posts.....planer, router, sander? Not a big bevel , just take the sharpness/splinter off.

The rain is making it very difficult to get things done before help arrives to stand the post.

If it rains tomorrow I will have plenty of time to do something with the edges.

Otherwise I will probably try to run over them with the belt sander while they re standing up.

[WandrinAndy]

Lapping up your WIP Scally!

Really wish I had your get-off-my-####-and-do-it attitude...

Btw, googling to try find the correct word that means the opposite of procrastination, I have just learned that my procrastination is actually a recognised psychological condition!

Andy

[Grandad-5]

I would like to knock the edge off the posts.....planer, router, sander? Not a big bevel , just take the sharpness/splinter off.

Mate, when I was doing this full time, I went out and bought a small electric plane in the belief it would save me some time.
It actually didn't. By the time I ran the extension lead etc it actually turned out quicker, quieter, better and if I dare say...more zen like to use my old #4 hand plane.
You only need a poofteenth off. One or two passes only.
I wouldn't recommend a belt sander.
Jim

[rwbuild]

Lapping up your WIP Scally!

Really wish I had your get-off-my-####-and-do-it attitude...

Btw, googling to try find the correct word that means the opposite of procrastination, I have just learned that my procrastination is actually a recognised psychological condition!

Andy

I will give you my opinion on that in a couple of days....ok........its on my roundtoit list

[Scally]

I often consider buying tools and making jigs is a way to avoid actually finishing a project.

What does that make building a workshop?

[wun4us]

A lot of wood, a lot of joints, a lot of tools, and a lot of work....Scally, you're taking it all in your stride. I'm sure the end result will be a tribute to your labours.

[A Duke]

I often consider buying tools and making jigs is a way to avoid actually finishing a project.

What does that make building a workshop?

So what aren't you finishing while you knock up this little work shop?
Regards

[Scally]

The list is long......
Several drums, African kora, daughter's chess board/box, two guitars and much more.


But soon I will have a great workshop and be able to finish them and much more so much quicker!

[Scally]

My neighbour and a couple of mates offered to come around today to help put up the pergola posts.

I get up early and finish cutting curves on the knee braces, drill peg holes in the post and start moving stuff out of the garage for the fork lift.

Mates arrive.
Move bracing timber to the pergola.
Move beams away from the post/workbench.

Neighbour comes over. Not happy. His forklift has flat battery.

Mates says "the posts aren't that heavy.....I think we can carry them".......
I have been wrestling these posts for the last couple of weeks.....They are heavy.


Bring the dolly to the post. Four guys pick up a post and carry it to the dolly..........it doesn't seem that heavy when four guys are lifting.

Roll it through the garage. I laid down some pieces of ply across the mud. Roll across the mud and the wheel runs off into the mud. No problem. Four guys pick it up and get it back on the ply. Onto the slab and roll it up to the shed slab.
Pretty easy really.

Within a short while we have all the posts on the slab.

We move the first post to its stirrup. Lift it up. Walk it to the stirrup. Put a Bessey clamp on the stirrup (reversed) and pull the stirrup wider.
Walk post into stirrup.
A few taps with a sledge hammer and it is in place.
Screw one screw into the stirrup.
Nail two braces to the post and check for square. Pretty good.

On to the next post.
Bugger.
I need to cut a bevel on the bottom of the post to clear the weld.
Grab power saw and cut a 45.
Stand the post.

What about the first post.......It is sitting a centimeter high.
Leave it.

Each post seemed to get easier.
Within a couple of hours all seven posts were in place.
It was much easier than expected. Quite enjoyable.

The guys had other commitments so we had a cold drink and nice ham rolls and they headed off.

I'm pretty happy.

I spend the afternoon playing with the beams...move them to the slab and move the gear back into the garage.

Visitors.......a couple of beers.....day over......


Tomorrow I will see if I can get the beams in place.

[NCArcher]

Nice
My back hurts just looking at those photos.

[Scally]

NC it wasn't heavy work at all.

The plan for the rafters is to cut a dovetail side in the beam.

Then a mating dovetail on the end of the rafters.

I will cut the second end of the rafter dovetail after measuring the rafter to the opening.

Attached pics show the dovetail joint on a pine test board.

[springwater]

Onya Scally

[Claw Hama]

Wow last time I looked this was vacant land, bingo, a rather robust looking frame is in place. If we every get a nuclar warning I'll be out to see you and hide in your workshop Scally.

[Christos]

That does look enjoyable.

[Chris Parks]

Nice
My back hurts just looking at those photos.

Agh, tis nuthin'. Back when I was young and stupid I had an idea, i will build a two story workshop/garage. We got the hole dug for the lower floor, that only took twelve months and then the retaining walls were constructed. That was when it got interesting. The retaining walls formed a three sided structure and steel beams had to be placed from one wall to the other and they were clear span. The beams were 7.5 metres long and there were five of them, the last only supported at one end on a wall the other end on a steel post and they were seriously heavy. How did we do it? I have no idea now but they were nudged, jacked, swore at etc as we could not get a machine in to the site that had the reach so it was all done by hand by two of us. To get them on site we wrapped a chain around them and dragged them in using a 4wd.