Todays shop time.

[KubotainNH]

If you need help, my (lack of) woodworking skills might prove useful, Mark.

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Looks like a bench for a hill to me.

 

[KubotainNH]

I'm curious what shipping containers cost elsewhere. Around here they seem kind of expensive.

 

[BukitCase]

My two 40 foot standard height were $2700 each, delivered - quality is OK, I guess I'd call 'em borderline cargo worthy. No leaks, but one could use a new door seal and the other opens/closes kinda hard - 20 footers are almost non-existent around here unless you wanna pay close to $4k (delivered price, about 90 miles from the depot) for a nearly new one... Steve

 

[KubotainNH]

The prices are similar here then. 20' are in the $1500 range. How the heck would I get that into my back yard without a crane though?

It's kinda steep before you get to the flat part.

 

[Oldpath05]

My two 40 foot standard height were $2700 each, delivered - quality is OK, I guess I'd call 'em borderline cargo worthy. No leaks, but one could use a new door seal and the other opens/closes kinda hard - 20 footers are almost non-existent around here unless you wanna pay close to $4k (delivered price, about 90 miles from the depot) for a nearly new one... Steve

Ah and there it is, found the price on the last post, I'd take an OK one if they'd drop the 7. Some interesting pictures in your previous post like the jack acc, someone has some engineering and welding skills, cant be you cause you dont have the metal working shop made yet.

Now the wood, Red cedar I presume? My son saws shingles out of Northern White Cedar, and the Tan Oak, never heard of it, Me. has Red&White Oak, but no Tan, you had to make me look it up and I did, inneresting tree, I didn't know you was into tanning leather>>> "The name tanoak refers to its tannin-rich bark, a type of tanbark, used in the past for tanning leather before the use of modern synthetic tannins. By 1907 the use of tanoak for tannin was subsiding due to the scarcity of large tanoak trees." and to think I thought that wood species was for making some exotic furniture.

 

[Oldpath05]

My two 40 foot standard height were $2700 each, delivered - quality is OK, I guess I'd call 'em borderline cargo worthy. No leaks, but one could use a new door seal and the other opens/closes kinda hard - 20 footers are almost non-existent around here unless you wanna pay close to $4k (delivered price, about 90 miles from the depot) for a nearly new one... Steve

Ah and there it is, found the price on the last post, I'd take an OK one if they'd drop the 7. Some interesting pictures in your previous post like the jack acc, someone has some engineering and welding skills, cant be you cause you dont have the metal working shop made yet.

Now the wood, Red cedar I presume? My son saws shingles out of Northern White Cedar, and the Tan Oak, never heard of it, Me. has Red&White Oak, but no Tan, you had to make me look it up and I did, inneresting tree, I didn't know you was into tanning leather>>> "The name tanoak refers to its tannin-rich bark, a type of tanbark, used in the past for tanning leather before the use of modern synthetic tannins. By 1907 the use of tanoak for tannin was subsiding due to the scarcity of large tanoak trees." and to think I thought that wood species was for making some exotic furniture.

 

[BukitCase]

"someone has some engineering and welding skills, cant be you cause you dont have the metal working shop made yet."

Actually, I kinda can - the metal shop is so I can spread out a bit and take up less room in the garage - I've done quite a few different things in 72 years, including teaching electronics in the military, working in several different video companies, designing recording studios, playing several music instruments, playing in a few bands, building my own house years ago, building a 3/4 mile road to that place across fairly steep hills, building a few race engines, being service manager for 2 companies in Hawaii, yadayada; then moved back to Oregon, union shops in rare metals (1 company for 9 years, second one for 25 - worked as instrumentation tech, that job required some physics, chemistry, electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, process tuning, measuring everything that CAN be measured and a few that CAN'T -

Then the last 10 years there I ran a 9 man maintenance crew (including me) - 2 electricians, 2 millwrights, 2 pipe fitters, 2 welders and me -

Now, since there's no union telling me I can't weld, wire, plumb, beat on stuff, etc, I do what I dang-well please (some of the time)

You might have missed a few things I posted in JeepnFord's weld table thread, but I'll put a few more up to stimulate the shop time thread -

There's gonna be 3 sets of pix before I'm done, if I don't give up...

This set, kinda in order - Stuff that needs a better home; my "Porta-shed", built of 2" .120 wall tube, fiberglass roofing and tarps - main part is 12'x12', with an 8'x12' "porch" built the same - porch roof legs fold in, roof folds down, then I can drive the hoe inside and pick the whole thing up and move it anywhere there's a 14-15' wide path - Then, some "module pieces" for part of the container roof (separate project); then a "brush bucket" I built that also comes in handy as a flying work platform; Socket detail for container roof (the 20' green one); a batch of "tinker toys", 2" receiver hitch compatible, before and after welding; Looking into the portashed "porch" area; and 1/3 of the container roof's second half.

More to come... Steve

 

[BukitCase]

Next - making sure welds are lined up; Upending a roof module; Crabwalk hand truck, modules weigh about 200# more than I like to move and can NOT go "sideways" on a regular hand truck; Module in place ready to lift, rotate, pin; Lifted and rotated; All 3 pinned, NOT bolted together yet; Truss parts in process; Modules offset for finish welds; Chain links/1" tube, for taut cable to hang tarps; same, in place... Steve

 

[BukitCase]

Well, that last one rearranged some for me; good luck :=)
Clerestory panel in process; Temporary swivels for roof legs (til slab gets poured);Outer legs; Leg adjusters; Clerestories; Tinker toys, ready to lift roof frame; Ditto, showing "accident prevention" tinker toys; Roof frame up, legs splayed til slab (likely next year); Leg anchors/fine adjusters; "Super plank" in use, later to get stake pockets/real guard rail - that "plank" let me screw roof panels down with nearly all my body weight ABOVE the drill - none of my arms fell off that day...

Gotta go unload a couple mig gas bottles before I quit for the night - ... Steve

Sorry, OP05, forgot some of your other q's - yes, red cedar - it's 2x6 decking, gonna end up as benches/table in a 12'x24' "sun porch/breakfast nook" project, it was FREE when I bought the beech/oak doors and face frame material; Tannoak - in later years it was also found to be a pretty durable wood for floors, etc - takes a nice finish, pretty but not wild grain - I bought it in a divorce sale for less than firewood cost, so one way or another it'll get used - toe jacks - worked REALLY well, eventually I wanna build one similar to the spendy ones Enerpac makes. Keyholed face, put the "toe" however high you want it THEN jack it up...

Between those (one with a "remote") and some (sorta) artful bucket work, I got the two containers lined up within less than 1/2" and level, working ALONE. That way, when I get to the roof (whether I do it in wood or steel) I won't hafta measure every stinkin' rafter, just gang cut 'em all (and wish I'd done 'em the RIGHT length )

P.S. - check out my mag drill stuff on page 6, here, if you wanna know how I did those legs...

 

[ovrszd]

Sounds like you couldn't hold a job to me...