Phase 4
The construction Phase of the project has now been running for some time. A few little problems have happen along the way. One of which is the company that was going to fabricate the Shed Frame for me. Well the best way of putting it is, that company just did not want my business anymore, as they were not going to make enough money out of my little job. The person in charge said" I only do complete sheds now, not part sheds". I was very disappointed with view, as I logged my plans with council with the intent of doing the construction a particular way, and relying on a particular company to do work for me. I suppose I am just a casualty of the building boom at the moment. :(
How to solve the problem of the frame not being fabricated, and other companies that I contact just want an few body parts to do the job. Well what can one do but to just do it your self.
The problem was, how am I going to cut all the steel and then move it around to be fabricated. I need a small engine hoist / crane. So I just need to buy on. A lot of looking around over several days, I have come to the conclusion, that unless you have a large amount in the check book spare, you a only going to get junk. So what else is there to do but to build one.
The design, this is always going to be interesting, remember the looking around I did, well I have some good ideas. So lets just go ahead and make it. But we want it to do more than just lift the steel to be cut. I also want to be able to use it to move the machinery back into place after storage. Drop the stairs in place in the cellar which will be around 500kg and big. Not to mention the small 1.3M wide gap the engine hoist will have to straddle. Also if it is designed right it can be used to put the frame up of the shed. Well enough with the talking about it, please have a look below for some photos.
Engine Hoist is use cutting steel
Engine Hoist after being painted
The engine hoist still has another bit to be added to it, this is the fly jib, that allows you to put up the truses during the shed frame erection day. I will put some photos up on the web page once I have made the required parts. Anyway the following photos have a few different views of the engine hoist after painting.
Painting the steel
3rd February 2006
To prevent the raw steel from rusting all the steel was painted in red oxide and then again with an overcoat of grey.
We started painting the steel with a big brush – brush on brush and soon moved to the spray gun which quicker and a darn site more fun – not to mention noisy.
Even using the spray gun painting one side of the steel work took 3-4 hours.
After all the steel had been painted red oxide to 'Blend' with the interior walls all the steel was painted grey - observations have been made that we spent more on paint than others have on a small kit sheet....
