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Wow, this is why I love this forum. Ask simple question, get 20 helpful answers in just a couple of hours... I would love to do this, but what kind of (rental) concrete saw can do a horizontal cut? Any ideas? I has been thinking of digging down on the dirt side, cutting a groove in it below...

My house backs up to an alley, and like the redneck that I am, I like to pull cars in to my back yard so I can out them up in blocks and stare at them for years at a time. Problem is, I've got this curb between my yard and the alley that I have to drive over. Not only does this make it...

So that was 5 weeks ago, but I finally did finish the door (amazing how shed building motivation drops off once the shed is functionally holding ****). The black bits are painted with truck bed liner (from a spray can), which makes the stuff you actually touch nice and durable.

Its funny how many people still recognize that tired old beast. I'm actually building a new engine for it now. Check MotoIQ.com for updates if you still want to love it. There is a projects tab at the top of the page that drops down all the project cars. Some post-SCC Silvia updates are in...

I suspect you may be right. Any recommendations on making it more secure?

Not quite done, but I finally got far enough along to move stuff into the shed. First trick was to make the shed lock. The door/container floor has this lip on it that was originally designed to hold the sides on. I installed this U-channel to trap the lip when the door is closed: like...

And this is precisely why I don't like finished walls in garages!

Finally almost have a door on this sucker! I've salvaged the containers themselves and the giant 2x10 holding up the roof (which actually appears to be 11" tall. Does that make it a 2x12?) I've added this bucket of lag bolts to the salvage list: I then bought 11 of these pipe fittings, at...

I decided to put the door at the top and add some plywood/something to the bottom of the door (basically your same idea, but on the bottom). The reason is simple. The U-channel holding the supercharger pulleys is very easy to twist. Making them long enough to hang the door lower might make them...

Wind here is infrequent (sometimes only once a year) so we tend to ignore the possibility and then get surprised when all our stuff blows away. I have put a hell of a wing on the top of this thing, but luckily it's poorly attached and will just blow into my neighbor's yard when the wind kicks...

WOW! Nice score on the cabinets! Great idea on the trailer flooring too. I'm going to start looking around here for something like that. I'm right next to the Port of Long Beach, so we've got lots of truck shops nearby. Just need to figure out which ones to look in for that flooring. Any...

You can see in this shot that I used a mix of Corrugated steel on the ends, and various translucent fiberglass and plastic stuff in the middle for light. Next up: the door. I'm using this floor panel from a smaller container as a door. it's the perfect width and has three stiffening rails on...

Ok, so I just hacked out the birdsmouths with a razor saw and chisel. Not the prettiest, but it worked well enough for a shed. This is my best one: These are intersecting a horzontal 2x4 that I'm using as a wallplate. Keeping that 2x4 horizontal let me screw it to the flange on the top of the...

How the hell do you make the long cut on that birdmouth? Since my roof is only sloped about 10 degrees, thats a really shallow pain in the **** cut. I'm using a combination of a Japanese razor saw, a chizel, and a dose of indifference. I think I need a jig saw for this, but I need to build this...

I finally noticed Jack's website and I'm thinking this will end up very much like his Swiss Army Table (http://12-gaugegarage.com/blog-8/index.html). It has room for a decent size top, its easy to make a beefy shelf to rotate big heavy tools down to when I need room on top, and some casters will...

Hah! That's where I got the paint and primer! What is Krud Cutter? Paint stripper or rust killer or what? I put a second coat of paint over the rust stains on one spot (just cleaning the paint out of the brush after painting part of that 2x10), so I'll be curious to see if the stains crawl up...

You'd be surprised how light these panels are. I'm not sure the scrap metal value would pay for the gas to take it there!

Great idea! Fair price would be scrap metal value, I'd say...

Any guesses if a layer of that oil base metal primer ON TOP of the already rusty latex paint will be effective? Odds are that's what I'll end up trying, as its getting harder and harder to swap out those two panels.

That makes sense, but I'm actually expecting to move the shed in a few years, and with only about 10 inches of rain a year, I'm thinking i can get away with it. If I don't like what the runoff is doing, I can always turn the shed 90 degrees later and have it piss on the termite-eaten fence...