ScottsRX
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Hi All. I thought it was time to start sharing my shed build that's currently in progress.
A quick history then straight to the pics. I've never had my own shed and I'm now 33 years old. Slightly embarrasing however my parents own 40 acres in the Mclaren Vale Wine region and my dad has more than 800m2 of fully enclosed shed space so I've never really needed it.
My wife and I have a 25 acre property on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide, and I'm building a 12m x 18m x 4.5m (roughly 40' x 60' x 15') shed.
Obviously being on a property we need shed space for tractors and machinery but I also have two Mazda rotaries as my play things. I also really enjoy getting out in the shed to build projects for around the place.
Anyway, thats enough boredom, to the Shed-mobile... I mean Shed. As mentioned in my intro post I'm building it from scratch, using the plans my dad had drawn up by an engineer. We built the same shed at his place about 10 years ago, so lucky for me I have all the engineering plans as well as a working structure to base my design on.
As I said it's 18m x 12m and I also plan on putting a 50m2 mezzanine for more storage. We are currently in limbo between houses so we have a lot of gear stored at my parents which will all be moved to the shed.
Sorry, I'm rambling again. Some pics of the construction process. Enjoy.
The feet that I made up to be concreted into the piers. Sorry about the blur. There are three 'double' feet for the three main front posts. These are larger to take most of the weight of the shed as the front will have two main door sections that are both 6m wide when the doors are fully open
Next up are a couple of the uprights that I mentioned. these are two sections of 250mm x 75mm x 2.5mm C section welded together with some 75mm x 20mm flat on the base. Should be strong enough?
Here we have the remaining uprights for the back of the shed. Nothing fancy here.
Thats most of the construction photos I took that are interesting.
Next up...Site pics.
So this is probably the best picture I have of the site where the shed will be erected. All pegged out and Bobcat onsite. Thankfully we've moved into an area with the best neighbours you could find. Our neighbour across the road does earthmoving so he's got a bobcat, tipper and excavator and our neighbour behind is a contractor of all sorts including fencing, vineyard etc etc. Note that we did all of our own fencing though. the site is fenced off as we have a couple of heifers in the main area to keep the grass down.
String lines so we know where the holes need to go
With the string lines down we also checked that my measurements were spot on with the front section as this is very important. I don't have any drawn up plans or anything to go by, it's all in my head.
So of course we then drilled some holes.18 of them to be exact.
Which we quickly filled with concrete. Note feet in place.
And thats about it for this first post. I'll follow up in a week or two with an update on where we're at.
Thanks,
Scott.
A quick history then straight to the pics. I've never had my own shed and I'm now 33 years old. Slightly embarrasing however my parents own 40 acres in the Mclaren Vale Wine region and my dad has more than 800m2 of fully enclosed shed space so I've never really needed it.
My wife and I have a 25 acre property on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide, and I'm building a 12m x 18m x 4.5m (roughly 40' x 60' x 15') shed.
Obviously being on a property we need shed space for tractors and machinery but I also have two Mazda rotaries as my play things. I also really enjoy getting out in the shed to build projects for around the place.
Anyway, thats enough boredom, to the Shed-mobile... I mean Shed. As mentioned in my intro post I'm building it from scratch, using the plans my dad had drawn up by an engineer. We built the same shed at his place about 10 years ago, so lucky for me I have all the engineering plans as well as a working structure to base my design on.
As I said it's 18m x 12m and I also plan on putting a 50m2 mezzanine for more storage. We are currently in limbo between houses so we have a lot of gear stored at my parents which will all be moved to the shed.
Sorry, I'm rambling again. Some pics of the construction process. Enjoy.
The feet that I made up to be concreted into the piers. Sorry about the blur. There are three 'double' feet for the three main front posts. These are larger to take most of the weight of the shed as the front will have two main door sections that are both 6m wide when the doors are fully open
Next up are a couple of the uprights that I mentioned. these are two sections of 250mm x 75mm x 2.5mm C section welded together with some 75mm x 20mm flat on the base. Should be strong enough?
Here we have the remaining uprights for the back of the shed. Nothing fancy here.
Thats most of the construction photos I took that are interesting.
Next up...Site pics.
So this is probably the best picture I have of the site where the shed will be erected. All pegged out and Bobcat onsite. Thankfully we've moved into an area with the best neighbours you could find. Our neighbour across the road does earthmoving so he's got a bobcat, tipper and excavator and our neighbour behind is a contractor of all sorts including fencing, vineyard etc etc. Note that we did all of our own fencing though. the site is fenced off as we have a couple of heifers in the main area to keep the grass down.
String lines so we know where the holes need to go
With the string lines down we also checked that my measurements were spot on with the front section as this is very important. I don't have any drawn up plans or anything to go by, it's all in my head.
So of course we then drilled some holes.18 of them to be exact.
Which we quickly filled with concrete. Note feet in place.
And thats about it for this first post. I'll follow up in a week or two with an update on where we're at.
Thanks,
Scott.
Very Nice F60L Monkey Face blitz , I have one myself but alot less complete . I am currently restoring a 42 F15A .
