Shed arrival

SSYTC063 The Shed Arrives

SSYTC063 The Shed Arrives

All 1.6 tonnes of Australian Steel.  There is a bit more to come – a roller door that will arrive later today, and the PA doors, the windows and insulation is currently at the yard waiting for the erectors.

So now we wait again, hope for a long run of fine weather so the other sheds in the queue get done quickly.  It is going to be interesting to see how this pile of miscellaneous steel shapes become a shed.  The pile looks very small compared to the resulting structure!

Just received “The Call”

The shed is on the truck, and is on its way.

Video Progress

If you have been wondering what I’ve been up to the last few days for the site, I have been working hard in the background getting the videos transferred to their new home.

Just did a quick count, and of the 161 or so videos to date, I am around the 1/2 way mark.  Thought I would have been closer to finishing than that – been at it for days!

All the videos are indexed off the one page currently, which despite the small image size, does make it a bit long to load.  I will be looking at how I’ll break it into sections, and/or divide it up into groups to make it more user-friendly.

Quite a library, which is going to expand quickly when the shed construction starts, and the SawStop is put through its paces to name a couple of projects!

Speaking of the shed, it is meant to be arriving tomorrow……..

Moving heavy machines

Have started thinking about how I will actually move into the shed when it is ready (guess that means I am accepting this is finally, actually going to happen!)

Despite a number of tools having their own wheeled bases, these are only suitable for moves around the shed itself, and in the case of some machines, they don’t have that option anyway.  While moving from the previous house, the idea of pallets, and a pallet jack was up there.  I didn’t end up going that way, and paid for a removalist company to do it all for me, so any decision was deferred.

This time, I’ve decided that a pallet jack will be a particularly suitable option, and not that expensive all things considered.  The one I got from Damoli Forklift Services looks particularly robust, has dual polyurethane wheels at the end of each arm, and a large dual polyurethane wheel at the front, and has a standard 2500kg load rating (which is more than enough for the heaviest machine I have to move, by a factor of about 10!). Only rang them about it yesterday, and it was on my doorstop when I got home from work today.  Happy about that!

It will also prove very useful when the new tablesaw arrives (a certain SawStop) which will also be palletised.

And when it comes time to move the large loads of timber from the back of the garage where it is currently stored, to its new home, the pallet jack will be given a good work out!  Think I will be utilising both the pallet jack and the winch for that move!  Now there’s a thought – wonder what would happen if I mounted the winch to the pallet jack?

I gave it a very quick try tonight, lifting the drum sander (which is now mounted on its own stand).  The jack slipped under, then with a couple of spacer blocks, picked up the sander without any problem at all.  It is only 55kg or so with stand, so only a fraction of what the jack can handle, but moving it otherwise is a pretty heavy affair for one person. Will do the same thing for the approximately 125kg Nova DVR XP lathe – again it will be a piece of cake for the jack, but a back-wrecking nightmare for me otherwise.

Added bonus – the fat polyurethane wheels run pretty well over rough ground.  Will still need to put down a track of boards or timber for it to run on – the weight when loaded would bury the jack into the backyard otherwise!

Can’t wait for moving day!

Cool Tools Woodworking Special

My mate, Chris Grundy and a woodworking special edition of Cool Tools (complete with small blank sections for ad breaks)

Shed arrives, and is up already!

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It’s Astounding
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It’s slightly smaller than I expected
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Assembly was a breeze, except for the breeze
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But a shed is a shed- right?
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Just a week to go

Slab signoff

With the expansion joints now cut, the slab is complete.

And the shed is due to arrive a week on Monday!

I am rather tempted to get my daughter’s outdoor chalks out, and sketch out where each machine is going, but that is just a lack of patience and would have little other benefit.

Time to twiddle my thumbs some more.

SSYTC062 Snapshot of the Slab Pour

SSYTC062 Snapshot of the Slab Pour

Episode 95C The New Slab

Episode 95C The New Slab