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26th October 2016, 09:29 PM #166
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26th October 2016, 09:32 PM #167
Well, I now know exactly how much nasty hardwood I have to spare, so I s'pose I can find a ½m length to donate. No chance it was going to be pussy Douglas Fir.
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26th October 2016, 09:46 PM #168
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26th October 2016, 09:59 PM #172
What no Franklin?
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26th October 2016, 10:01 PM #173GOLD MEMBER
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Looking good Brett!
If you need a hand let me know.
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26th October 2016, 10:03 PM #174
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26th October 2016, 10:05 PM #175
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26th October 2016, 10:44 PM #176Bushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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27th October 2016, 04:40 AM #177
After looking at your construction and then the drawing I was a little confused as to what and how you were going to stack timber in the wood shed. I put it down to being a Brett....thing.....
Now after the photos of the stacked timber and the overall views I see why you built what you did.
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27th October 2016, 06:44 AM #178
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31st October 2016, 08:02 PM #179
Day 22
Ok so I had a couple more days over the weekend sorting out and loading timber when the weather wasn't really conducive to building. Friday I got the box drain in along the back (southern) wall and concreted in the sleepers for the low retaining wall between this shed and the garden shed. Rather than concrete the box drain in place I used the rest of the sieved sand/clay from the bottoms of the post holes. I packed it around the sides and underneath and then rammed it down with a lump hammer. First the drain has been wrapped in Geo-fabric, and then to finish I just spread the last of the sand/clay and trampled it down. There's about a 20-30mm layer over the top of the drain. As it's on the southern side I suspect that the drain will never actually be called upon to fulfil its function, but one never knows with water.
Today I got the walls on the southern side, and for this wall I used a different bunch of sheets - the first score of metal from the Bowling Club. They are narrower (400) and shorter (3.6m where the others are 12m). They are also slightly thicker metal and higher ribs. I had already cleaned these and coated them with Penetrol a couple of years ago as there was significant surface rust (rotary wire brushed first).
I must say that Penetrol does a wonderful job of stopping rust dead in its tracks by oxygen denial. These sheets had been stacked up under a single layer of now sun decayed builders plastic for two years and looked EXACTLY as I remembered them. No advancement of rust whatsoever.
Another benefit of these sheets is that there are zero holes to be filled - dunno how they were held down but it wasn't with screws/bolts. The down side is that twice as many sheets had to be trimmed, and the ribs are a little more difficult to nest properly.
After that I got 2/3 sheets on the eastern wall. I tried REALLY hard to get the last (top) sheet on, but it is impossible by myself and so I will wait until tomorrow when there will be someone else here.
Miraculously, and quite randomly, three sheets running horizontal on the eastern wall is an absolutely perfect height fit - like, to the mm. It made me laugh. When I say "randomly", I never took the sheet width into consideration when planning the wall heights - they would just be how they came out. As I was about to mount the rafters I thought "bugger it, I'll just go for maximum height with the available post height (they were trimmed after the rafters went up, so the shortest post governed the whole thing). Now that's random!
Plenty of pics tomorrow - camera will be active taking pics of surplus wood for sale.
This means I can now measure up for flashing/barge caps and order them, and while I'm waiting for them to be delivered I can hook into the painting. After that I'll probably have to go back to vege garden duties and also tidy the place up for the FTG on 20th Nov (there's crap everywhere atm)
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1st November 2016, 08:34 PM #180
Day 22½...all metal walls done.
Only spent a little time on the shed today to get the remaining metal up and finish off a few bolts.
South side (back):
Blackadder really likes that observation post. He has a lovely time in there - SO MANY places to explore and hide in!
Eastern side:
As I was putting that top sheet on this morning, the owner wandered down from his digging duties and said "I can hear impure words! Do you need a hand?" The bloody bolts kept popping out of the nut setter whilst trying to get them through the metal. "Why don't you start it with a hammer?" was the response.
"Excellent idea!" and works like a charm - 3 taps to pierce the metal and straight in. DUH!
Pretty full of stuff these days:
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