Thread: OK show us your shed!!!!

Well here's my shed/cave


and the Rangie is now at home in the cave


and I even have some of the boys over most Friday nights for cave night which is any excuse for a beer


Trav Man

Originally Posted by pop058

People get abit excited about having a few posts in the open areas of sheds. Most times they can be used as dividers for workshop areas and parking bays anyway. The big plus with them is that they provide support for rafters, which then can be made smaller ( and cheaper) as they don't have to span great distances.
If you are looking at building a shed, at least consider having/the placement of internal columns as it could mean a cheaper/ bigger toy room.

As a general rule, an increase in span is the most costly, then height and then length. 64mm top hat battens can span about 3mt, z100 about 4.5mt, z150 about 6mts and z200 up to 9mts. Wind loadings and shed design always need to be taken into consideration but you get the idea.

Yes, that barn pictured.... 20 meters x 12 meters with probably 4 meter height down the middle. I'd up-spec the middle door to give 4 meters height clearance. That way I could put caravan in there if I needed to ( with A/C on the roof, some offroad caravans are ridiculously high). It also gives height for a hoist!

I don't think a 20 x 12 shed is expensive @ $22,000. I'd put it up myself over time probably. I just need to win tattslotto first!

seeya
Shane L.

Last week I spent a little time one evening trying to work on the shiny ****box .... first I spent 20minutes looking for the manifold gaskets (to change while the motor is out). then I spent 20 minutes looking for tools ... The **** everywhere was driving me insane. 20minutes working on the ****box .... 2 hours and 40minutes searching for stuff .... AAAAARrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,...... I figured I need to tidy up and get all the crap off the floor onto some shelves before I started trying to work on the car again.

I spotted these on the local facebook group.....




I pulled them down ... dragged them home. This has taken me 1 week on and off with the public holidays .... But now I have all the **** up off the floor.







I added a lot of extra shelves in ... I find you loose a heap of space as the gaps between the shelving is usually huge. So I made a heap of the shelving only about 40cm high (so you can place things like those old filing card trays into them)





Now I just need to clean off those benches and move them and I can get back to re-assembling the shiny ****box.

seeya
Shane L.

Impressive!

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Impressive!

Did I mention I HATE bloody wood. Everytime you try to nail or screw the stuff together it splinters and splits. Metal is WAY better. I ended up making small angle brackets to hold it all together with screws. It was already all pre-split and nailed for me. Whoever originally built it sucks at woodwork nearly as much as me Its good to know I suck at woodwork almost as much as I suck at welding and fabrication though

seeya,
Shane L.

Try welding those wooden benches and shelves with Woodcraft rods @ 110 amps.

So a bloke called Shane spent 3 hours today excavating, building up the driveway, laying a pipe in the entrance and spreading road base and the results are excellent. The road base contains concrete and it's raining right now so I can almost hear that road base going harder.
George the Defender is spending his first night in his new home and seems happy - fits neatly.
A 10,000 litre water tank should arrive soon.
Then it's electrics. Meanwhile the first shelves are already going up. A dedicated steel welding bench is also planned.
I just need to add a lounge, a fridge for beers and a TV with aerial and all will be well with the world.

Here is George at rest in his new cubby hole.