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To try to find more storage room in the lower shed, I’ve moved out all the pine offcuts that I got from Holmesglen onto a woodrack that I’ve made for the outside of the shed.  This will initially get covered with a tarp, and later on I will readdress the issue, using some of the left-over tin from the shed reconstruction to make a more permanent solution.

New Woodrack

The rack is constructed with 2 uprights and 4 cross-members.  These have then had an angled 38mm hole cut with a forstner bit to take the lengths of steel pipe (this is the same pipe that I was trying to give away last year, and had no (local) takers.  As you can see, there are all sorts of useful jobs for (free) steel.)  The Triton Steel Cutter made absolutely short work of cutting the pipes in two, and getting them all the same length.  On the inside wall of the shed, there are wooden battens that the hex self-tapping screws have been driven into.  What I will do next is drill some 38mm holes into those, and put in a few short lengths of pipe again, and make a steel rack on the inside for all the lengths of steel I have.  This will also benefit the shed wall by balancing the load somewhat!  So that is one task down in the cleanup and out of the lower shed.  A bit of a re-sort now to come, and hopefully that will free up some significant space so I can actually access what remains in storage, so I can actually use it when I need it!

Looking at the wood pile here, and there are plenty of toys etc hiding in there I’m sure, that a combination of tools in the shed will manage to release from their confines.

(BTW, if the racks in the above photo appear to be sloping down, rather than up, that is more a trick of the vantage point, and the wide angle lens, rather than reality.  If you look at the fence battens, they are also sloping down, but in reality are horizontal)