Framing help needed.

[wroughtn_harv]

I don't understand your timidity. With the slab done and the weld plates in place it's time to get after it. It isn't going to do itself.

What I'd do is visually verify the straightness along with squareness of the sheet ledge. You can use a string but you always check out the string with a look, right?

If the forms were done right and the sheet ledge lines are correct then it's nothing but a thing. Depending on how you're going to attach your sheets, purlins in between the posts or on the face of the posts, I'd line up accordingly along the sheet line and start welding in posts. I'd pick one end to measure off of for post spacing and then pull off of the ledge for the other direction. Plumb up the post and weld that puppy in. When all the posts are up I'd do a top plate and then do the trusses.

I stick build with steel sometimes. What has simplified this for me is the new steel cutting steel blades for circular saws. I can do radical compound angle cuts accurate enough to weld them up three hundred and sixty degrees. I'm attaching some photos of a gazebo I just left for the wood guys to cover. It's about twenty one foot in diameter. The steel is all four by four eleven gauge and I did it all by myself. If you want to have fun grab a twenty one foot piece of four by four eleven gauge and place it on top of two posts ten feet high.

 

[rural2]

Sounds like a plan my man. Slabs in place, a little pre-fab work and shazam!
Wether the pre-fab work is done on site or not...

How does this sound?- Set a corner column. Plumb. Then tack in place and brace or brace then tack it in place. Move to the next corner and repeat until all corner posts are up.
Then stretch a string line between each corner post. Then set each wall column, plumb, then tack in place until all of them are set.
Then set my header on top of the columns, making sure everything is square and plumb then tack in place until there is a header running all the way around the perimeter. Then go back and weld up all the joints.Any thoughts?

 

[richinok]

Hey wroughtn harv, I thought you would give me some tips and I do thank you and the other guys for the tips. I am a little timid because everytime I have built something out of wood it looks like it shouldn't have been built. Wood is harder for me to fix cause i cant replace wood as easily as I can with metal when i screw up.

Okay I have a game plan and will take lots of pics with the process and start a new thread in a few days. I have never done this so it will be fun. Hopefully with the labor savings I can put a good chunk down on a JD 2305, 2320, or a 2520, thats a whole other problem that I dont have an answer for yet.

 

[Defective]

Cool! Harv's showin' off again...

Rich, Don't lett it scare ya. Get the first one up square, plumb & where you want it, then take your time & measure everything from there. Before you know it, you'll be ready to dry it in.

 

[Erik_in_Hoyt]

Rich - one small piece of advice.
Don't use string.
Use electric fence wire - it doesn't sag as much and won't really deflect in "light breezes" under 30 mph.

good luck!

 

[richinok]

thanks for the tips guys. i am not gonna get to start on it as soon as i thought. my wifes 74 year old dad fell and broke his hip and is having other complications. i will post up again in a few days and will start a new thread on the shop.