Sab's Shed - Longterm Project

[Sabbath]

Hey all, been a member for a while but never got around to posting my shed build as it was happening but i've now got some time to hopefully finish off the build so thought i would share my to now, and from now progress.

The goal was, to build a shed that i could use for my hobbies, and with the obligatory storage opportunities.

This is pretty much the startpoint of the project. Nothing has been cleared, except the main part of the two trees on the left have been pruned back. The stumps came out with a quick pull with the landcruiser.
2015

Old "shed" and lean to got pulled down and boat and trailer parked waiting for the new shed to go up. This was about 6 months in time between shots, so you can see how motivated i was to get my build done But, they're purposely parked there because that's where the back corner of the shed will be, and where the dog is standing to the left is approximatly where the other wall is to go.

2016
I had a few issues with getting my permit, as there is an easement that runs down the longest side of the shed which meant i had to get BOE permission which took almost a month on its own for the council to reply to and pushed out the cost of my permits budget. I started organising permits at the very end of January, and it took 3 months to the day to get all the confirmation through.

Final photo before the site cut

One thing that helped with the location of the shed was that my block had an existing gate in the fence that lined up perfectly with where the shed would go. This is looking towards the road and shows the amount of fall the block has, which will be evident with the site cut later on

The back corner near the fence was our FGL point, so meant that everything from that had to be smoothed out.

This was the entrance ramp they left me with, which was less than ideal, but will talk about that later.

The final part of the site prep

Will leave it there for post one. Lots of pictures in that.

The shed dimensions are

13.75m x 7.5m x 3.2m

The length had to be under 14m for the council to be happy, aswell with the height being 3.2 to the eaves to avoid having to push through more paperwork on neighbours i didnt want necessarily knowing what i was building until i had a permit in my hand. (Only one neighbour, but they complain about nearly everything to the council the rest i get on well with which helps)

I have .8m off the back fence, 20mm off the long side fence and there is 1m between the house and the shed.

Thanks for reading. Will write out part 2 now to split these a bit.

 

[Sabbath]

Part 2

When designing the shed, i didnt want it to overhand too far past the house, so that when we're sitting in the soon to come entertaining area we're not staring at the side of a building. So i was able to line it up so that the PA door is in line with the pathway down next to the house, and there is only about .8 of a metre past that that. Kept the wife happy, which is always important.

Finding a time for the shed builder to come and put it together was another battle. The first wall section and footing holes were done a MONTH after the site was prepped. lot of time to be starring at a bit of gravel.

But once they got into it, it didnt take them long to start getting it looking like a shed. You can see in the bottom left of the shot the level difference between the floor level of the shed and the old level the garden used to be at. Narrow driveway and largeish angle was never going to last.

House to Shed gap and PA door location

We have a roof!

View from the neighbours driveway.

And, roller door on.

 

[Sabbath]

Part 3

I wanted to get the electrics put in before the slab was put down, purely so i wasnt waiting for conc to cure before i could get lights put in.

I wanted to, as much as possible avoid running long extension cords throughout the shed once i had it set up, so lots of power points were put in to try and avoid this.

This is what the plan looked like.

I used Purlmates because of how cleanly they install. Helps when your electrician takes the time to do a quality install. Was somebody i went to highschool with, think it cost me under $2k for the entire install excluding the Purlmates, Distribution Box, and Lights.

 

[HOTFR8]

Interesting build. Great photos.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Sabbath, top job

Nice work on the electrical as well...

Regards

 

[Toolfool]

Nice build. Looking forward to seeing what projects take place inside.

 

[Sabbath]

Part 4 - Concrete.

Once i had the electrical side of things half sorted out i booked in with the concreter to have the pour done. The crushed rock had already been layed down when the cut was done, so this meant i didnt need to get more in, or hand spread it which is always a big plus.

7am had the first truck roll in. Gate made access so easy, didnt have to barrow or pump the concrete to the shed.

At this stage, the power hadnt been hooked up from the house meter box to the shed so there were no lights in the shed for the early morning stuff.

Pour almost complete:

And done

Get to tha choppa!!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6e7buh3uacn4vo/20160524_134433.mp4?dl=1

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Was a long day for the pour, they spent about 8 hours there all up and took 2 trucks.

 

[Sabbath]

Interesting build. Great photos.

Thanks HOTFR8, it was one of the things i made sure i did at the start was to try and chronicle my build as best as possible through every stage. Unfortunatly i had to be at work when it was being delivered and constructed and the FIL isnt the best with mobile camera technology so i missed those two parts. But such is life

Sabbath, top job

Nice work on the electrical as well...

Regards

Thanks 1/2 Cup.

Nice build. Looking forward to seeing what projects take place inside.

Cheers Toolfool. Will try and get some more posts put up over the weekend, unfortunatly the next couple will be my "bad experience" posts.

 

[HOTFR8]

Document as best you can as you never know when you may need to back up information with a photo. Again looking good.

 

[Sabbath]

Part 5 - Changes and Lessons.

If i was to do something like this again, i would start the permit process much sooner to avoid a timeline blowout like i had with my BOE permissions. It took ages for the council to give me permission to build over an easement that the water authority gave me a 2 day turnaround on. Just dragged the process.

As i mentioned earlier, i wasnt happy with the way the driveway into the shed was sloped when the cut was done. While it was served the basic purpose of getting in and out it also wasted a lot of space that could have been otherwise utilized.

You cant see it very well from this angle, but the way the driveway has been cut, there is no way to walk around the side of the shed and do the PA door without climbing up the retaining wall and jumping down the other side. Also shows the slope down into it.

Hard to see but if you look at the distance between the front of the shed and where it levels out (the fence is a good place to see) you'll get what i mean (i hope)

So, since i was at a crossroads jobwise, i decided to use it as a good practice for seeing if it's what i wanted to do career wise and hired out a mini-excavator and had a go at remedying the driveway myself.

I layed down some crushed rock after this, but after i bought my own equipment and had a fair few wet weather loads most of it got mixed in and wasted. So i decided to have another crack at widening it.

And, the finished result. I've now got space to park something up against the fence (the boat lives there for now until it gets sold) and i can put the landcruiser on the house side and still be able to get a car down into there with no issues.

Once summer rolls around for good im going to grade off the top layer again and bring in some more rock but a larger size that's less likely to get picked up in tracks or mashed in by the skidsteer.


This shot gives a fairly good indication of the amount of light the shed has without the hibays on (which were really just a gimmick that i chucked in there to say that i have Hibays )

You might also note the standing water to the RHS of the shot. This is because the slab is sloped INWARDS so whenever we get a rain that's enough to overwhelm the drain out the front which has happened twice sofar) the water makes its way to the back of the shed, and because it's a dirt drive it's not clean water. So i end up having to haul everything out and pressure wash the floor.

Oh...and did i mention it's cracking too?

Which im not too happy about. But since the slab is pretty trashed with hydraulic oil and grease already (the joys of running and performing maint. works on earthmoving equipment on it)

One idea that i've had, which is ridiculous given the effort i had to go through to try and get the current height enterable off the street is to rip up 95% of the current slab, leaving conc up against the walls and around the pads and then to do another site cut inside and lower the floor level down further, and give me space to put a hoist in.

 

[Sabbath]

I had a small fiddle with the door after the last rain event we had when it filled the shed and it looks like it worked as i had maybe 3L of water enter the shed and luckily only sit by the door even with all the rain we had over the weekend. Still need to pull out the drain and re-lay it all though once the rain finally stops.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Sabbath, drainage is going to be your next project by the looks of things..

Your lighting looks great..
Not good having a crack in the slab at this stage..

Regards

 

[Sabbath]

Sabbath, drainage is going to be your next project by the looks of things..

Certainly will be. Once this top layer dries off a bit after the rain im going to strip the whole top layer back about 100mm. There is a trench that i dug along the front of the door and put 3m of plastic U drain in there but the levels arent quite spot on to catch the water and keep it away. so i'll redo the slop when i drop the drive and have a slope down to the drain and then a step up back into the shed and then put some crushed rock down.

Your lighting looks great..

Thanks, nothing more important than having enough light to see what you're doing.

Not good having a crack in the slab at this stage..

Regards

Mmm, annoying less than a year into its life to have it looking like it's been down for 10.

 

[HOTFR8]

I would be unhappy with the floor level and the crack. As 1/2 said it looks like you need to deal with drainage. What about a drain in the front with a great to catch all that water run off ?

This is what I have in front of one of my Garages.

 

[Sabbath]

I would be unhappy with the floor level and the crack. As 1/2 said it looks like you need to deal with drainage. What about a drain in the front with a great to catch all that water run off ?

This is what I have in front of one of my Garages.

Believe it or not, i have one of those, but i need to rejig the levels a tad. I made the error when i was setting the levels when i redid the driveway the first time. You can see in this pic the slab is 100mm higher than Ngl which i then put crushed rock over which wouldnt have been an issue.

But then when i came in to remove the stockpile i put to either side of the door i ran out of room in the little 2 cube truck i was using so decided to try to track in the rest of it which left it as such -

With the Ngl being right up on the top of the slab and then some coarser rock went over the top by the door more as a dirt preventative than anything.

I put a trench in and one of those drains you pictured, but the overall fall doesnt totally work, so will be time to get the machine out again and grade it off to 100mm below the top of the slab, reset the drain location (the trench is about 250 wide and 400 deep with scoria in the bottom already) and then wait 6 months for summer to be over to test it out.

 

[HOTFR8]

If it is like my location at present any Summer storm will test it for you. The Garage I have had to set the grate in front of I often have to hose it out (good way to get rid of Spiders as well) and the grate at the front doors works well. Hopefully you can resolve the issues you have.

 

[Sabbath]

If it is like my location at present any Summer storm will test it for you. The Garage I have had to set the grate in front of I often have to hose it out (good way to get rid of Spiders as well) and the grate at the front doors works well. Hopefully you can resolve the issues you have.

Currently flogging down with rain again. Sold my boat today, which gives me the space i need to redo the drive. So hopefully it stops by tomorrow and i can get some stuff done and take some pictures.

I saved the two bilge pumps out of the boat so if need be i can employ them to help.

 

[Sabbath]

Alrighty. Update time.

Dirt pushed right up against the top of the slab. I still havent taken the boxing off from when they poured the slab and as i mentioned above.

So i set about pulling the dirt back away from floor height at the door and also at repositioning the drain as it didnt get put in wholly straight at first and its draining capacity wasnt what i had hoped it would be using a natural runoff.

Progress for the day, will get another couple of metres of the drain and then decide where im going to drain it off to. closest stormwater access is 14m away and it's going to be a hand dig so currently looking for other options.

Hard to see from the angle, but the dirt now sits at the base of slab height.

 

[Sabbath]

Update Time.

This week has been an absolute nightmare hence why no update last week on the drainage situation.

I run earthmoving equipment and haul dirt for myself and also subcontract out to a plant hire company called Starbuck (no affiliation with the coffee people) i've been doing it for about 18 months, and 3 months ago i decided to step it up and buy myself another truck to replace my old one.

So i bought a 1986 W Model Kenworth, has a 400HP Cat motor, 20 Speed Spicer, new tipper body, cab was close to immaculate had a heap of receipts for work done (motor rebuild, bushes replaced etc etc.) and the guy i bought it off had just had surgery for liver or kidney cancer, cant remember which organ. So obviously he couldnt drive the truck to sort out a roadworthy,but with all the receipts and because it presented REALLY well, drove fine so i haggled him on the price by 5k, and ended up paying $45,000 for it.

I got the truck home, set about getting it ready for roadworthy, fixed a few little things like tarp slider broken, washer jets not working no biggie. Took it to the mechanic and it was there less than half a day and i get a call "Yeah, we're not going to be able to pass this, the chassis is bent. Mortified, i went down there and they showed me where and it was because the bumpstops had been hitting on the chassis over its life. This was with an engineers report from March 2016 from when the tipper body was put on saying the chassis was ok to use.

I got straight on the phone to the guy i bought it off and we had a chat. I took the truck back to him and we organised the engineer who signed off on it to come and have a look at the chassis with the intonation being that if the engineer said the chassis was as bad as the roadworthy guy had made out i could swap the truck for another truck he had there. (He claimed to have spent the money i'd given him already).

Engineer came down and looked, took all his measurements and asked me to get some plates made up to put over the sections where it had bent and once i did that he would sign off as even though there was rust in the chassis, it wasnt at a level that he deemed to be terminal by any account.

With work commitments and some adjustments to the design it took almost 2 weeks to get the first set knocked up. And then by the time i got them fitted it was another week or so. Drove out to the engineer, and he knocks it back. Really not happy. But he asks for the plates to be a bit longer, and a bit thicker. (from 6mm up to 8mm). He also asked for a gusset panel to be replaced as it had a small break in it. He wouldnt let me weld it.

This time, the fabricator really dropped the ball and it took them ages to knock up the plates because their computer was having issues for the CAD program, then they got it wrong, and getting it rectified i left them there for over a week waiting until i cracked it and went down and told them to just make the old ones work. Which was easy enough with some lateral thinking.

New plates made up, gusset panel sourced and installed i took it to the engineer. This time he passes it and supplies me with a Chassis Strength Report which is good enough to go to Vicroads (the road authority) and put on file and have no issues for a period of 5 years.

Roll around this week, i spent hours cleaning, greasing and polishing the truck all ready for roadworthy. Certification in hand, i go back to the mechanic with the promise it will be done the next day. That was Tuesday night. Wednesday afternoon, i've heard nothing and neither has the mechanic (it gets sent out to get roadworthy done) Thursday comes around, i drive down and make him call them and they assure it will be ready by 230. 230, still no call or truck. Starting to get very annoyed now.

Friday lunchtime i get a call. They're not going to pass the truck. Not only that they've called in VicRoads who sent 2 engineers down and went ballistic that the chassis was signed off on. Not only that, they raised concerns about the way the chassis addition had been done for the tipper (by the same engineer). The engineer is now under investigation by VicRoads, and the truck has been redflagged in their system so if i try to take it somewhere else to get a roadworthy, it will cause issues for that workshop.

Im currently getting all the documentation together from this engineer that i have and also seeking legal council against the engineer to recoup costs of making the truck to the standard he has certified it to. Whether that's through his insurance or otherwise.

The short version - I bought a truck, an engineer lied to me and im now $45,000 out of pocket for the truck and potentially $30,000 to get the truck re-framed.

 

[Whitey1]

Holy ****! That is the kind of nightmare that can crush a small business. Good luck.

 

[HOTFR8]

Ouch. Sadly I know all about that sort of thing dealing with Engineers all the time in the Hot Rod Industry. Sadly you purchased it with an Engineers report that should have been OK so to me Vic Roads have to advise you what to do. All I can say is there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[Sabbath]

Holy ****! That is the kind of nightmare that can crush a small business. Good luck.

Thanks, the past 3 months have been very stressful and just when i thought it was all over and i had my resolution another spanner has been thrown into the mix. Luckily i still have my old truck so i can fall back on that while this one sits until a resolution comes about.

Ouch. Sadly I know all about that sort of thing dealing with Engineers all the time in the Hot Rod Industry. Sadly you purchased it with an Engineers report that should have been OK so to me Vic Roads have to advise you what to do. All I can say is there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks HOTFR8. Im not sure why the roadworthy inspector did what he did, as he is the one that knocked it back last time but said to us that if we came in with an engineers report he would pass it. Instead he called VicRoads in. He could have just failed it again if he didnt want to put his name on it/deal with it and kept it off the books so to speak.

Timing with Christmas and the New Year isnt great either, but i've got a lawyers number from a family friend who i'll be calling once i know VicRoads official standpoint on it.

Will keep the thread updated, if not for my record than anything else.

Back to regular programming -
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So last Saturday i dug up the old drain with and left it as a blank trench with the intention of just relaying the drain with a bit better runoff, think i posted a few pictures on the previous page but will repost. You can see how much water it was holding, 2 - 3 days after a decent rain.

I woke up the next morning and decided to undo all what i had done and properly push the drain right up against the door as close as i could. It took a bit of work to get it to the level that it is, ideally i'd have it a little lower but there's a footing on the lefthand side of the door that i couldnt cut anymore out of. I also bought 2 more sections so now most of the front of the shed is covered by drainage. The agi went down aswell to help with more runoff capture.

I still need to finish off the longest run which will unfortunatly be a hand dig of atleast 14m.

You can see in this one the pipe that will eventually take a RH turn and run down the side of the shed.

I'll make some more progress, probably after Christmas at this rate though.

Thanks for reading.

 

[HOTFR8]

Can I suggest you look or ask for a second opinion by another Engineer. If you need PM me and I will supply you with a contact for the Engineer I deal with.

 

[Sabbath]

Can I suggest you look or ask for a second opinion by another Engineer. If you need PM me and I will supply you with a contact for the Engineer I deal with.

Thanks HOTFR8. i'll hit you up in the new year when my head's back in work mode. Having a few days RnR after a massive leadup to Christmas itself.

We got hit pretty hard here with rain and an impressive lightshow too. No hail though which was lucky. And im happy to say my drainage works did their job, which was to channel the water away from the entrance. I went outside about 9am when i got brave enough to check and the shed was dry.

The water slowly drained away, and i might get around to to digging the rest of the trench if this heat goes away. I need to measure the gap to see if i can get a friends mini in there as my Bobcat is too wide to get in and rip a trench.

Had an end of year break-up for the company that i sometimes Sub-Contract out to, also unveiled their new yard. Heaps of space.

 

[HOTFR8]

Good to see the drain worked. That storm over a week ago I was on a train out of Melbourne when it hit. Signals failed and we had trees on the line etc. and the power out when I got home.

PM me when you need and I will supply you with some information.

 

[Sabbath]

Good to see the drain worked. That storm over a week ago I was on a train out of Melbourne when it hit. Signals failed and we had trees on the line etc. and the power out when I got home.

PM me when you need and I will supply you with some information.

Sounds like it's lucky you made it home at all.

We've had some wild weather in the past couple of weeks (worse than the last couple of years atleast)

So much so that i was up in the Rumpus room of the house by chance during another downpour last Friday and noted that i had water pouring in through the ceiling near the window.

Climbed up on the roof once it subsided and sure enough, near on 40 years of rain and gumtree debris sitting on a flat corrugated roof and my various trips up there to clean gutters has moved sheets and i have rusted out sections that have now got holes in them.

Being the worst time of the year to try and source and match panels to replace them i've had to do a temporary fix on it for the time being. A tube of silicone for the main holes and then brushed liberally with a regular bond sealer to fill any micro holes the silicone or my eye missed.

Happy to say i got up there today with the hose and gave it a very good drenching and the inside of the house stayed dry this time. Something else to put on the list of things to fix though!

 

[Sabbath]

Update time -

Have had a pretty busy first week to the new year. I put the truck in for a roadworthy at another workshop on the 3rd, and they were happy with the signatory paperwork from the engineer and had nothing to say about the chassis. So i've spent the rest of the week fixing little arbitrary issues they found. The biggest one i had to fix was an oil leak they claim was dripping onto the floor (if it was it's the first time in 3 months it's ever left a done so as i check the ground under the truck daily before starting the truck.)

To fix this i had to pull the air compressor off the side of the motor. It's the blue item on the back of the timing cover.

Luckily it's a fairly easy part to remove and on removal i found that whoever took it off last, it had a weep when i went to inspect it and fixing it was a condition of sale didnt do a very good job of cleaning old gasket goo off the mating surface and there was a large dag right at the bottom over the sealing surface. I opted to just use purely a gasket cement to in lieu of another gasket mainly down to time constraints. Sealed it all back up, and took it on a run down to the tyre shop and it's bone dry.


Did a bit of a naughty this morning and dragged the welder out and zapped up a few spots on the bullbar and one on the radiator stay panel before the wind kicked up but will have to wait until tomorrow now to rind the welds back and paint them. The Landcruiser is also awaiting a nut being tacked onto the diff fill plug as it's rounded off and is currently blocking entrance to the garage.


Currently enjoying airconditioned room, cricket and soon to venture out for dinner.

 

[HOTFR8]

Sounds like you no longer need the information I had for you. Well done.

 

[Sabbath]

Sounds like you no longer need the information I had for you. Well done.

HOTFR8, that's my immense hope at this stage. Fingers crossed really. Will be in contact if need be. Nice to know I have a potential fallback position if necessary. Contingency plans are important.

 

[Sabbath]

Time for some shed content update since my personal drama is on the backburner for today atleast.

So today i decided to start tackling storage and work areas.

But as time goes on needs change and so do plans along with those. When i first build the shed i had 2 project cars (HZ One Tonner, Volvo 240), a car i store for long periods (80 Series Landcruiser)and one that i was storing for a mate (66 Impala that we've put an EFI 454 into). I've since sold 1 of the cars (the Tonner) and the Impala has been picked up and driven back to Broome.
So this leaves me with 1 car that i dont have the time or money to start on at the moment so needs to go into longterm storage, and 1 that i pull in and out as needed so space it takes up is inconsequential.

This is my plan for the longterm storage of the car and also to create some storage space.

So the original idea was to get some go-jacks and rotate the car along the back wall and then put storage shelving up above the car. And then on the left hand side have a work bench with more storage overhead and the abilit to then run lights overhead for the bench.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Sabbath, Storage space / shelving is certainly your next big challenge, Use every inch where you can..

 

[Sabbath]

Sabbath, Storage space / shelving is certainly your next big challenge, Use every inch where you can..

I feel it's going to be a balancing act between creating storage space, but not making it look i have an excess to the wife doesnt see it as a dumping ground for house excess

 

[Sabbath]

I originally (well over 15 months ago now) bought this unit for storage racking. It was originally meant to sit on 1.8m legs so would give me space to store larger items underneath it.

This is the best pic i have of it, which incidentally was the day i changed it.

I cut the legs off at a height of 230mm which when its flipped gives it a perfect height for working on.

It worked out well, the day previous i'd picked up my Dad's Triton, which he bought new in 1991 (found the receipt for it buried with the manual)

and used it to cut a notch into the benchtop.

And how the top sits in relation to the Purlin.

 

[Sabbath]

Has been hot the last couple of days.

Turned out that 2 of my jobs fell on those days. So on Thursday i found myself following a road crew around scraping and laying gravel for drainage and then reinstating top soil.

Fridays job was a bit harder to cope with the heat, pulled 40 cube out of the hole from the footings for what will end up being a $5m house build in Toorak. Driveway will come in off the street and go down where the excavator is sitting and then sweep around to the left.

Finding shade for the truck was high on the list.

Hopefully tomorrow is a little cooler and i can get the table finished off.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Sabbath

Your table has worked out well.

Its been damed hot here as well..

Regards

 

[Sabbath]

Sabbath
Its been damed hot here as well..
Regards

Set for another hot one this weekend. I've set up a misting spray outside on the A/C unit to try and cool down the coils as it struggles in the late afternoon sun. Brick walls, flat metal roof and no insulation.

Ouch. Sadly I know all about that sort of thing dealing with Engineers all the time in the Hot Rod Industry. Sadly you purchased it with an Engineers report that should have been OK so to me Vic Roads have to advise you what to do. All I can say is there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

Bit of an update on this. Truck passed through roadworthy and then the very next day i got a call from VicRoads. Seems they didnt lose the case in a mountain of paperwork over the Christmas break

Anyway, that person couldnt tell me much but said i'd get a call the next day from their vehicle safety and fitness department to talk some more about it. Another week went by and i got a registered letter from them demanding i bring it in for an inspection or face a fine and cancelled registration.

Rang up and had a chat to the guy who is looking after the case. He seems quite easy to talk to, and i laid it out to him that i use the truck as my primary source of income and that i took professional advice from an engineer and have been lead in the wrong direction numerous times by the people they certify. Which has lead me to looking down the barrel of financial hardship and he agreed with me on that point.

Truck is due in at Burwood next Friday, so will have to lose another days work to go and deal with this.


Was out and about today, finished the job before it got too hot and on my way home drove past this impressive combination.

A tandem hauling a 6 axle trailer, with 2 of the axles able to be raised or lowered.

 

[HOTFR8]

Rang up and had a chat to the guy who is looking after the case. He seems quite easy to talk to, and i laid it out to him that i use the truck as my primary source of income and that i took professional advice from an engineer and have been lead in the wrong direction numerous times by the people they certify. Which has lead me to looking down the barrel of financial hardship and he agreed with me on that point.

Truck is due in at Burwood next Friday, so will have to lose another days work to go and deal with this.

Sounds like you found a decent person to talk to with some common sense. I believe all will work out for you. Good luck.

 

[Sabbath]

HOTFR8, thanks. I certainly hope his level of caring goes as far as the responsibility of their signatories to do the job at hand and not leave somebody with a product that isnt right rather than just use it as a fact finding mission to condemn the engineer and throw me to the wolves as far as having something to use to put food on the table for the family (something i stressed to him on the phone).

This rain isnt helping, 70+mm turned most jobsites into swimming pools and closed most of the tips which meant another day of no work and making no money as im loathe to book in any jobs and then have to push them back because of truck issues.


We had the super blue blood moon last night. I found the battery for my old digital camera and did my best to get a picture of it.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Sabbath thanks for sharing your super blue blood moon.

I slept right through it..

 

[Sabbath]

Sabbath thanks for sharing your super blue blood moon.

I slept right through it..

Had to go out last night for my Sisters birthday so didnt get to post a shed update like i was going to.

I got around to finishing the first bench and then got stuck into making a second. The first one was fairly easy as the legs i'd bolted on and then cut down to size once i decided to make a bench.

The second, shorter bench was a little more tricky as i had to cut 4 legs out o the lengths i cut from the first bench's legs. Making straight, even cuts with an angle grinder is a pain when you cant do one pass and need to rotate the material so i welded up a jig that enabled me to clamp and measure off a flat edge to cut against.

Once i'd cut them i welded them on, cut some ply (3mm) to size for the lower shelving and notched the top so i could push it over far enough to fit my toolbox in the gap.