Above 1200 Sq/FT Shorty's Shed

[shortykorte]

Shorty, congrats on completing your move, what a feat to get done.
Look forward to seeing it all get put into place and your purging.

Thanks. It was quite the task. Luckily I had tremendous help.
The one side is pretty close. Just need to dive into the other side.

 

[shortykorte]

Not much to report since no bloodshed. Spring is here so grass was mowed and plants and tress were planted. Started on the mailbox install.

There will be some horizontal boards with the street number.
More organizing, sorting and adding to the scrap metal pile. Did get two pallets, a milk crate and a couple of 5 gallon buckets emptied.

On the way home, found out Batman was in town and likes a Cheby

 

[cbacres]

Shorty, why do we see casters laying horizontally while attached to something? Did you forget to report something to us?

 

[Bears Fan]

Looks like your new mailbox mount will hold up against all the junk mail that we all get

 

[shortykorte]

For horizontal casters see post
Post in thread 'Shorty's Shed'
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/shortys-shed.276241/post-10545235

 

[shortykorte]

Looks like your new mailbox mount will hold up against all the junk mail that we all get

…hurricanes and drunks.

 

[PugetDude]

What's the under/over on that bet, Shorty?

 

[LutzTD]

Not much to report since no bloodshed. Spring is here so grass was mowed and plants and tress were planted. Started on the mailbox install.

There will be some horizontal boards with the street number.
More organizing, sorting and adding to the scrap metal pile. Did get two pallets, a milk crate and a couple of 5 gallon buckets emptied.

On the way home, found out Batman was in town and likes a Cheby

mailbox looks solid, next step is to go nuclear

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY21STKT/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[shortykorte]

Saturday morning the South Bay looked like

Pulled everything in the middle of the floor outside. Stuff on pallets and a tractor makes that easy.
Here’s what 6-7 hours of work accomplished


Basically Tetris. Arranged the stuff that needs to be sold closest to the door. Also put cabinets and equipment where they will probably live in the future.
A big benefit , I now have good access to cabs, equipment and the pile in the middle.

 

[shortykorte]

Another reason for moving everything out is to get the 24” Brake off the ground. Used the tractor to move the brake and stand up the stand I.e. Christine’s battery box.

Won’t mention the two times the brake hit the deck.
Finished the weekend with installing 4 quad outlets along the north wall.
As peaceful as it is at the new shop, I’m just chilled. Yay!

 

[Craptain]

Another reason for moving everything out is to get the 24” Brake off the ground. Used the tractor to move the brake and stand up the stand I.e. Christine’s battery box.

Won’t mention the two times the brake hit the deck.

I should never have sold you that Brake. It's making me weep seeing you mistreat it so badly.

 

[shortykorte]

Don’t worry Andrew, I was cussing you for sure while breaking my back lifting the brake without breaking it.

 

[cbacres]

You built too small.

 

[shortykorte]

Some light fab work. Aluminum from the scrap bin.

Cutting, drilling, sanding, painting then installed.

A little solar panel on south wall, camera pointing towards drive.
Picked up some auction items yesterday so unloaded and tested them. Kobalt cement mixer and this portable winch. Both worked.

I’ll make up a hanger mount for use with my trailer. Also got some expensive lights for a great price.
Transplanted a tree that was located where a septic system will be installed then called it the day.

 

[shortykorte]

Just enjoying nature.

And the hot, hurricane prone weather

Just a bunch of odd jobs. After 9 months, I got the trim around the door. Note to self, do this step before the spray foam.

Finished up the mailbox. Those Texaco stools sat unused in the loft for years. Now they are stools and make great sawhorses.

 

[PugetDude]

Nice work on the mailbox, Shorty. I really like the design.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Love the mailbox!

Did you put netting inside to help the wasps get started?

Cool mail security feature.

 

[shortykorte]

Nice work on the mailbox, Shorty. I really like the design.

Thanks. Thought it matched the shop.

Love the mailbox!

Did you put netting inside to help the wasps get started?

Cool mail security feature.

Didn’t think about that. Ummmmm.

 

[shortykorte]

Out with the old

I was tired getting scalped when going in my free shed plus it was full of yard stuff. So brought one of those portable garbage.

Plenty of room, 6’6” wall height and I’ll be able to park the tractor in there if I want.

Also so more stuff Tetris. Due to the economy, can’t afford pallet racks so built a rack out of pallets.

This allowed be group boxes better and gain a little more floor space and boxes are more accessible for going through. Oh it’s now.

 

[shortykorte]

Yesterday picked up a friend’s zero turn that wouldn’t start. He brought a new one so….
Checked battery, check fuel pump, both were good so remove this.

Pulled the bowl off and found gunk

Cleaned that, then put it back together. Still no start Checked and cleaned spark plug, no start. A squirt of starting fluid did the trick for a few seconds. Replacement carb on order.

 

[shortykorte]

This morning I finished the last pieces of the portable carport. Would love to know who order August weather in June.
I also decided to swap my hardware from a Vidmar cab to my oddball Equipto cab. The Equipto is the oddball, it’s painted the color I want all the cabs painted and it’s wider so hopefully all my hardware will go in one cab.
Old bolt drawer

Start of the new using Schaller bins.


Also started moving the overflow and speciality tools from the Equipto to the Lista bench located in the work bay.



to all the fathers out there.

 

[xtremek]

That's a pretty slick use of the wire shelving.

 

[shortykorte]

Independence weekend.
Went to visit sister today and came across these.
Dad flew one of these over North Vietnam.


My last base was the home of this beauty.

 

[don long]

Enjoyed our visit Shorty. Thanks for taking the time to drive up from San Diego and spend the afternoon getting to know each other

 

[PugetDude]

Enjoyed our visit Shorty. Thanks for taking the time to drive up from San Diego and spend the afternoon getting to know each other

Did he leave you any North Florida Safety Skool swag, Don?

 

[shortykorte]

Enjoyed our visit Shorty. Thanks for taking the time to drive up from San Diego and spend the afternoon getting to know each other

Thank you for your great hospitality. I really enjoyed getting to know each other. Seeing your place in person…WOW! Seeing your completed projects in person and just how well you finished them was another great treat. A true artist.
And the D&A Diner had Dr. Pepper.

 

[xtremek]

Is that big dome thing next to the bush your new foot stool?

 

[shortykorte]

Did he leave you any North Florida Safety Skool swag, Don?

I do need to work on some swag.

 

[shortykorte]

I like the look of the bench in the 30’s garage so I’m going adapt to my dirty side of the shop. I won’t have all the cool stuff but the license plates.

Tried to enroll this guy in my Safety Skool but he wasn’t haven’t it.

 

[Bears Fan]

Your finished mailbox looks great I'm really jealous of your visit to The Big Party Garage

 

[shortykorte]

Well I got caught up in the Crowdstrike airline fiasco. Good news, I got home 15 hours later than planned. Bad news got Covid along the way then passed it on to my wife. Luckily it was like a common flu but just drags on and on.
I felt ok to mow last weekend so fired up the ZT. After two passes, it stopped moving. Ummm. While deciding on the riding mower or truck to tow it to shop, I realized I have a tractor. Got it in the shop and see where the drive belt jumped off. Not looking forward to mowing with the old 42” riding mower, again light bulb went off, duh your tractor has a 60” mower deck.

 

[shortykorte]

While waiting on Little Debby, I got some stuff done. Working on getting a septic system installed and conferring with Septic guy, a good spot is between shop and house location so needed to move my dirt pile.

The new pile seems bigger.

Love the tractor with the bucket. Next was to mow the back part of property not done last week. The old utility pole needs to be removed especially with the new drain field location so removed the panel.

Umm can I get pole out of the ground? A little digging on one side, a push with bucket on both sides, then a chain wrapped around base, voila!!!

I think there’s a safety message in there but can’t figure out what.

 

[xtremek]

Been there, seen that, done exactly that. With the wife in the cab of the Kubota.

 

[shortykorte]

No QST but a lot of QYT.

The new location for our drain field passed. Original location the entire drain field had to above the existing terrain. With this, I need to move a water spigot and the pile of partly burnt tree stumps.
The mule sure made it easier.

One was a drag

The two largest ones are pretty big and have a lot of clay in their roots so heavy. Broke out the saw to trim the trunk off the one.

 

[shortykorte]

Next up was grading out the spot where the utility pole was and the burn pile.


I ended up with a compact pile which should burn better and the dark dirt is what was in the roots.


Hopefully tomorrow I can get the spigot moved.

 

[LXCam]

I think there’s a safety message in there but can’t figure out what.

DUCK! Seems pretty darn appropriate




Things are coming along nicely shorty

 

[shortykorte]

Another sweat soaked day in the yard. Rented a trencher. First run was for the line from shop to intersecting the existing waterline. Trenched to where I thought it would intersect but nothing. I didn’t know the exact path of the waterline, so I did several cross trenches. Luckily when I hit the PVC, it bounced until one time it didn’t. From the break I ran a new path towards my first trench. Extending the first trench 15 more inches I found the waterline I was looking for. Errr but happy I found it.

I was able to lay 95% of the PVC , just need the connections at each end and repair the break.

 

[shortykorte]

Finished up the water line connections and repair. Where I broke the existing pipe, I found a really weird setup.

On the left is a short sleeve and on the right is a larger pipe. At first I thought they just shoved the 3/4 into what I assumed was 1” pipe. Then I noticed the larger pipe had a slot cut longwise hence the blue tape. Rutro more digging unearthed this weird section.

Out with the old, in with the new and….

Shop has a spigot.
To fill the trenches, I experimented with a couple of hack grader accessories.


They both worked…kinda and both had the same issue. I couldn’t see them. The theory worked so will see if I can make something useful.

 

[shortykorte]

A little bit of reorg. Though I like my work bench setup , I took the SS top I had at home to replaced the steel one. I wanted this so I could sit while working. I was also able to move the 1” belt sander to a useful spot.

We brought an RV so I installed a 50a RV receptacle.

 

[shortykorte]

Septic system is going in. Because of the clay and location to the spring where Creature to the Black Lagoon was filmed, I have to put in an enhanced nutrient reducing system.


A curse and a benefit is the nice lime rocks that get dug up.

The rock on the left is worth $200-300.
Last chore was to organize the garden shed so I can store the kayak there instead of the shipping container.