Brmorgan
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Well I know it's been a while since I contributed anything at all here... and to be honest I haven't even checked in even to read what you all have been up to in probably 4 months or more. Been way too busy; spent April and May in school doing my 1st year of Automotive Service Technician training (finished top of my class too
), and since then have either been working or doing various projects around the house. And to add to that, it looks like I'm gonna be a dad sometime in April of next year, so that adds a whole new level of projects and improvements to be done over the winter... so I have my work cut out for me! Not to mention that I have to re-do the roof on the house before snow flies this year. But I finally decided to build an addition of sorts onto my shop before winter hits - the shop has a big sliding door on the front, and then a regular "man door" on the side, but of course every winter the snow would slide off the tin roof, fall 20 feet, and pack into an impenetrable iceberg that would render that door useless until Spring and make it so I couldn't lock it up properly. So, being too lazy to chip away at the ice with a pickaxe every year, I built a lean-to over the door so that my efforts would have more permanent benefits:
It's about 8' wide and 10' deep. I realize that it looks kinda goofy with the front cross beam down much lower than the top of the man door, but it's about 6'4" off the ground and my 6'1" height can comfortably pass under it, and everything just worked out well with the outer wall set up at that height. Everything but the plywood is stock that I've milled over the years - the posts came from some 4" slabs that I'd saved from 2-3 years ago, all I had to do was set the Alaskan to 3.75" and make a couple passes to split the posts off, and then run them thru the planer to smooth them out to 3.5" square. And the rafter 2x6 and stud 2x4 boards I've mostly had stacked up for some time, but again they were rough so I had to plane them down; had to mill a couple more to fill out the lot. Since I took those pics, I've gotten the tin roofing on and have started to pile firewood against the back. I left both ends open, since I eventually plan on expanding it down the length of the shop further for additional firewood storage etc., so for now I just have a tarp nailed against the back to keep the snow at bay once it comes. I strapped it with 2x6 at 16" centers for the tin roofing - wanted it to be nice and strong to withstand anything that might fall from the main shop roof above. I've also pounded some 10" spikes into the top beam of the wall on the inside to hang all my myriad saw bars from to keep them organized - guess I should take another pic once that's all done with. I'm gradually working on moving all my saw parts etc. out of the basement shop in the house and up into the truck shop - the wife has been really good about all the crap I've accumulated over the years, but it's time to get it organized into its proper home, hehehe... She hasn't outright called me a 'hoarder' but I'm pretty sure she thinks I am! It does pay off from time to time though...
Well it's past my bedtime here, so I'll sign off for now. Cheers all!
It's about 8' wide and 10' deep. I realize that it looks kinda goofy with the front cross beam down much lower than the top of the man door, but it's about 6'4" off the ground and my 6'1" height can comfortably pass under it, and everything just worked out well with the outer wall set up at that height. Everything but the plywood is stock that I've milled over the years - the posts came from some 4" slabs that I'd saved from 2-3 years ago, all I had to do was set the Alaskan to 3.75" and make a couple passes to split the posts off, and then run them thru the planer to smooth them out to 3.5" square. And the rafter 2x6 and stud 2x4 boards I've mostly had stacked up for some time, but again they were rough so I had to plane them down; had to mill a couple more to fill out the lot. Since I took those pics, I've gotten the tin roofing on and have started to pile firewood against the back. I left both ends open, since I eventually plan on expanding it down the length of the shop further for additional firewood storage etc., so for now I just have a tarp nailed against the back to keep the snow at bay once it comes. I strapped it with 2x6 at 16" centers for the tin roofing - wanted it to be nice and strong to withstand anything that might fall from the main shop roof above. I've also pounded some 10" spikes into the top beam of the wall on the inside to hang all my myriad saw bars from to keep them organized - guess I should take another pic once that's all done with. I'm gradually working on moving all my saw parts etc. out of the basement shop in the house and up into the truck shop - the wife has been really good about all the crap I've accumulated over the years, but it's time to get it organized into its proper home, hehehe... She hasn't outright called me a 'hoarder' but I'm pretty sure she thinks I am! It does pay off from time to time though...
Well it's past my bedtime here, so I'll sign off for now. Cheers all!
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