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Stroppymonkey
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Stunning day. Work nice and quiet so just on call to office for decision making, got scalpings scraped out a bit closer to grade, machine returned, and a couple of passes with the wacker plate.
Waiting for some more skips now.
Perhaps start bolting some concrete panels up next week .
Waiting for some more skips now.
Perhaps start bolting some concrete panels up next week .
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
weather's set to be dry for a week ... be nice if the ground dried with it
what size is your main building Ben .. very jealous and looks well made - decent sized steel in the frame
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Big end is 45x60.weather's set to be dry for a week ... be nice if the ground dried with it
what size is your main building Ben .. very jealous and looks well made - decent sized steel in the frame
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15ft bays 3 wide x 4 deep.
Waiting for my re mortgage next Easter to release funds for cladding.
Good job I’m not in a rush
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
was looking at 45 x 40 for myself, 15ft bays, but with your sort of height eaves - is that a 15 deg pitch?Big end is 45x60.
15ft bays 3 wide x 4 deep.
Waiting for my re mortgage next Easter to release funds for cladding.
Good job I’m not in a rush
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12.5 degree pitch I think ?
Originally 6.0m to eaves.
Will have about 5.4m internal height to underside of rafter gussets.
Enough for 2.7m mezz and still have full room height above.
In hindsight I would have had it about 500mm lower.
Dads always complained he wished his had been 500mm higher
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Why couldn't we have had it last weekweather's set to be dry for a week ... be nice if the ground dried with it
what size is your main building Ben .. very jealous and looks well made - decent sized steel in the frame
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Half day over at the shed site once I caught up with organising the call-outs. Released the bottom section of the C-beams to push it out the way to pop in the first panel. Slipped between the steels nicely so that measurement was good. Misscomm on the position of the threaded inserts for the fixing studs. I’m going to need to through drill them and then pop a plate on the backside as well to pinch in some timber wedges which will pack the gap between end of the concrete panel and the web of the steel.
Getting carried away as I just realised I haven’t grouted the posts in yet🫣
Finished day with a tidy up burn up . Fan assisted!
Getting carried away as I just realised I haven’t grouted the posts in yet🫣
Finished day with a tidy up burn up . Fan assisted!
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do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
get some longer, thicker plates Ben - way easier than drilling the damned beams or weld 'em to the columns and galvafroid them
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Surely not? It’s only a 4” panel and I have a variety of SDS drills cordless and corded. I’ll give it a go and see if you are right
.I’d like the rear plate on the backside to help retain the timber packer. Will update next time I’m over .
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Done that in the past.
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
yes I did realise you were talking about drilling the concrete panels ....
personally I'd weld those tags to the uprights and give 'em a good treatment - no need for the rear wedges or grippers then
and'd get a good weld in that corner (ideally with a MIG) but stick'd do (just need / take a bit longer)be bloody solid then
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The guy who made the steel for my shed supplied it with (and pre-drilled for) heavy angle-iron that fits vertically in the web behind the concrete panels. We used the fish-plates too, but only really for assembly purposes. The angle holds everything rock-solid.
The concrete panels (fitted in the web like yours) were also longer than I’d have personally ordered and I was dubious that we would be able to ‘twist’ them into the posts but they went in pretty easily (we had to remove and subsequently replace the wind-braces to give us enough room on the end bay but otherwise it was simple). I was very impressed with the accuracy of it all - it showed what someone who knows their game and is good with CAD can pull together!
The concrete panels (fitted in the web like yours) were also longer than I’d have personally ordered and I was dubious that we would be able to ‘twist’ them into the posts but they went in pretty easily (we had to remove and subsequently replace the wind-braces to give us enough room on the end bay but otherwise it was simple). I was very impressed with the accuracy of it all - it showed what someone who knows their game and is good with CAD can pull together!
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Yes I will see how the rest go in.. reckon they could have been an inch longer
If I was stacking them up high I’d probably be after more brackets on inside, but if life goes to plan these might be coming out again one day.
I will be happy with just the fish plates once they have a healthy lap onto the column.
Your shed guy must have been better at measuring than my shed guy. Where it goes from higher end to low they had to cut out the welded brackets and bolt some new ones in.
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What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
On my shed (second hand obviously) after we fitted the (new) panels we then shuttered the webs and concreted them in
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Is that with the panels In the web… and you just poured the web full?On my shed (second hand obviously) after we fitted the (new) panels we then shuttered the webs and concreted them in
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
cool idea Mog ... wouldn't be that hard to extract either if you ever needed toOn my shed (second hand obviously) after we fitted the (new) panels we then shuttered the webs and concreted them in
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Back on the tree planting . Another 300 odd of local cell grown hedge whips gone in, mostly to replace the bare root ones that didn’t survive last years drought. We lost about 250 of them :-(
Dragged the wife out for support crew.
New Year’s Day and today. Had a mix of sleet and snow and sunshine. Ran out of time to finish mulching as needed to head home in time for food delivery.
Fingers crossed this lot fare better.
Another 500ish in 12 month time should see us fully planted up. Something like 1000 once we are all done. Will make some nice bird corridors in years to come and link up 2 different woodlands.
Dragged the wife out for support crew.
New Year’s Day and today. Had a mix of sleet and snow and sunshine. Ran out of time to finish mulching as needed to head home in time for food delivery.
Fingers crossed this lot fare better.
Another 500ish in 12 month time should see us fully planted up. Something like 1000 once we are all done. Will make some nice bird corridors in years to come and link up 2 different woodlands.
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Had to go and rod a section of the land drain today. Not sure what was stopping it but think its where I latched onto the old 3" perf pipe a couple of years ago. Plans changed and that little section of old pipe is now draining a lot of the site. I have done a lot of work further up the line so it might have been some sort of debris. BT Duct Rods cleared it, then little jetter on the petrol washer up and down for good measure. My DIY chamber thats joining 2 sections is running very well. Pipe is about half full and flowing swiftly. I would guess near 100lpm going through that chamber at the moment. I thought it would just be a little trickling land drain, if I had known it would be working so hard I would have done the job properly
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