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New Tractor Shed
awemawson:
Only POTENTIAL bacon Will :ddb:
Today was officially A GOOD DAY. A/ Weather forecast was rotten - drizzle all day, but they were wrong :thumbup: Rain held off until about four in the afternoon. B/ While Darren was doing his stuff I hunted out and found an elusive hydraulic oil leak on the JCB803 which was far easier to cure than I'd expected. A slow drip onto the left hand track - one pipe from the main pump distinctly damp. I'd previously tightened it's fitting. It wasn't until I projected the rear of the machine over the edge of my loading dock and could look up at the area clearly it was obvious that the leak was dripping down the pipe from a pressure test point that wasn't tightened ! A quick couple of turns with a gloved hand and leak cured - things are rarely that simple :thumbup:
So early on Gary brought in yet another load of variegated soil - I think this is at least the twentieth but I've lost count - hopefully the last
Darren soldiered on fixing the front sheets - this is the most complex side as it has not only the sloping roof but also the piercings of the two doors to work round.
To get at the left hand side he had to create a hardcore platform for his access device to roll on - once the sheets were in place he could trim back to the roof line with an angle grinder ready for the verge
awemawson:
So then for the verge. At this point the heavens opened, and Darren stoically just climbed into his tank suite and carried on :thumbup:
The verge and capping piece went on fairly easily and then it was just a case of a bit of a tidy up, and leave site. He has other commitments Wednesday and Thursday so play resumes Friday.
Another 'event' today was the appearance of the Roller Shutter Door fitters to take final measurements before they make the roller and personnel doors - all the way down the country from Bolton in Lancashire :bugeye: :bugeye:
Door will take a few weeks to be fitted, and needs to be in place before the floor concrete goes down. This morning I bent up brackets to mount the 100 Watt LED Floodlights and gave them a coat of cold galvanising - we'll need lights when concreting if the weather is against us and the door has to be closed
Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew,
This thread continues to be a fascinating rubbernecker's delight, thank you. Thank you also for the warning of the two day's break.
The building looks as though it has been designed as a whole kit. I was particularly impressed by the incorporation of supports for the concrete gravel boards and that there are such handy projecting supports for your siding gauge board. And yet you are left to trim the cladding sheets to the angled roof-line? Did the suppliers include drawings for Building Control & Planning? (I forget what you told us at the beginning about the differences for approval of agricultural buildings.)
Do you have an appointment yet for the Google Street-View camera? Or the Google Earth over-flight? :lol: :lol: :lol:
I think a large :mmr: decal painted on the roof would be a good feature.
awemawson:
Pete, this is a variation on a standard design for a "Grain Store", where keeping rodents out is considered desirable !
Usually the concrete sides would be considerably taller, and also normally the building would be much larger - this is only 1800 square foot which s small for an agricultural building.
Yes it's designed as a "whole kit" in order that it can be gone over by a structural engineer and granted "CE Approval" that the demi-gods in Brussels demand these days.
I think to trim the sheets before delivery would be pushing their luck, as things move, and aren't necessarily as square as the designers drawing board.
Had full planning permission been needed they would / could provide full drawings, but this has been built under a "28 day Notice" which allows me to build up to 5000 square foot each year if I want so long as the building falls under certain usage and construction requirements.
All I had to do was provide a site and location plan, along with a description of the materials used and external appearance on the application form.
Google Streetview still hasn't found my newish farm name signs - no doubt they will catch up - they have included some tracks I've created by driving tractors in their map library !
awemawson:
First a photo of the brackets I made yesterday to mount the LED Floodlights - they span the two highest Z Purlins
Got a couple of minor things done today on the T / S :
a/ Mounted the 8x4 of 18 mm 'Water and Boil Proof' plywood onto the Z Purlins ready to take the main electrical distribution box, the CAT5 & Telephone termination box, and also the Roller Shutter Door control box. I stiffened it first with four vertical bits of 4x2 on the reverse.
From the way the Z Purlins lie the top had to be secured with 'sheeting screws' as the back wasn't accessible, but the bottom is held by 6 mm coach bolts and nuts as I can get my hand round the purlin for the nuts!
b/ Made up the Termination Box for the CAT5 and Telephone cables ready to mount on the above board.
I'll not actually mount anything on the board yet until the concreting is done, as it's bound to get pretty messy when that starts - lights and roller shutter will be fed temporarily by wander leads
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