My work shop build in progress

[Frank Surber]

Started gouging the welds off this morning and it didn't take long for me to decide the air compressor I use all the time to run a 1" impact was no where near big enough to keep up with the air flow needed for my gouge. it has been so long since I used my gasoline compressor I figured it would take the better part of the morning just to get it running so I 86d that idea continued gouging and waiting until I decided it would be a lot faster to just bite the bullet and burn up some ox/act gouging the welds out with a torch this meant I had to dig out another torch body and head that had a gouging tip in it. Now where did I last see that thing? I also figured out that my understanding of making temporary welds does not mean they are by any means temporary but I finally had them all cut free.
It takes a lot of blocks

 

[EddieWalker]

I thought that I was the only one with a large collection of odd sized PT blocks.

 

[ovrszd]

Never, ever throw them away.

 

[Frank Surber]

My blocks have their own place to be stacked out of the weather some are accumulated from house movers and are well aged some are just about to have their use by date to expire though.
But anyway the box is fully up and resting on the beam now I have to get the chassis out from under there but may have to remove the outside tires to do so to keep from having to raise the box even higher

 

[ovrszd]

A work in progress!!!

 

[Frank Surber]

DOWN;
the only thing left to do after having the beam in place was to put the plan in action
I rolled out a few feet at a time so I could check everything

GONE

the best and probably the safest way to down work the cribbing that I've found is to set up a second set of cribbing inside for the jack. This allows the layers to be lowered in small stages and if something happens to slip there is only a few inches anything can fall I like to lower 3 inches at a time across a 12 ft span side to side or less if dealing with something very tall and top loaded




then after lowering the front a section or so I lowered the rear

DOWN as low as it is going to be until the concrete blocks are placed under it

Level enough until sitting on the concrete pads as well


Look what the steel genie left me

 

[bindian]

My blocks have their own place to be stacked out of the weather some are accumulated from house movers and are well aged some are just about to have their use by date to expire though.

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I like the handles you put on the blocks. I have had some just like that. I was disappointed my Grand daughter didn't want to play with my blocks.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

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Dang Frank,
I would think, with all those tools and equipment around, you would have a pneumatic jack. Lots easier. I bought one when I leveled my mobile home.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Frank Surber]

I like the handles you put on the blocks. I have had some just like that. I was disappointed my Grand daughter didn't want to play with my blocks.
hugs, Brandi

Brandi; the blocks with the straps on them help my wife to be able to move them around. it is a lot easier to drag something sometimes than it is to carry it when dragging it if you tire you can just stop for a moment and rest when carrying something you either continue to where you are going or have to put it down then go through the effort of picking it up again.
As most people know lifting things are one of the major causes of injuries.
Jane is not a big gal not much over 100 lbs while even in her 70s she can lift one of the 50 lb blocks she can not carry it but she can drag 2 of them for short distances at a time but mostly she uses her garden tractor with a trailer behind it just drags a block from the stack uses the strap to pull it up to the side of the trailer then allows it to pivot over on the trailer never having to lift the full weight of the block

 

[Frank Surber]

Dang Frank,
I would think, with all those tools and equipment around, you would have a pneumatic jack. Lots easier. I bought one when I leveled my mobile home.
hugs, Brandi

I have a pair of 15 ton air jacks straight air not air over hydraulic and an 8 ton pneumatic bottle jack but the 8 ton jack would not lift one side of the box
the 12 ton bottle jack had all it wanted with a 24" handle, the 50 ton obviously was over kill.
I was actually concerned with the W6 x25 beam being able to support the load being blocked so wide apart and I did notice it had over 1 inch of bow in it so that was nearing the limits of its capacity having the load concentrated in the center. if there had been just a little more bow in it I would have used a 2nd beam. but in the past I have seen those beams bow 2 inches but still held up.
Yes the front of the box is heavy there are 64 bins stacked on both sides some of them weighing 4 or 500 lbs each filled with nuts or bolts or steel parts. plus there are transformers and generators loaded in the very front so yeah it is basically heavy I've removed over half of the weight in had in it after we transported it out here. the truck that pulled it weighed 20,000 lbs and we were grossing just under 80,000 for the trip