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New Tractor Shed
awemawson:
It was certainly rather wet over night Pete but no hail that I'm aware of.
Spent today adding a few electrical sockets down one side of the shed, and also three commando sockets for wander leads adjacent to the distribution panel. (A 16A single phase, a 16A three phase and a 32A three phase)
I'd intended to run the 13A sockets in Hi-Tuff with girder clips, the upright RSJ get in the way of straight runs of conduit however in a flash of inspiration I realised I could drill a clearance hole through the RSJ's and use singles in conventional 20mm conduit.
I'm short of the breaker for the 16A single phase commando socket, and a few saddle clips for the conduit - all on order and should arrive Monday or Tuesday. I'm off collecting butchered lambs on Monday so Darren will have to just get on with things (hopefully)
I will probably leave the electrics at this stage - the sockets are really to help during Decembers scraping class but will be useful long term putting vehicles on trickle charge.
AdeV:
See! I knew this shed wasn't for tractors! Scraping classes indeed! Illicit educational events! Tractors, my arse! :lol:
PS: I'm gutted I couldn't commit to coming to the scraping course :( Financially it was just too much of a risk for me at the time. Hopefully there will be future classes (again held in the so-called "tractor" shed)
awemawson:
Well today proved rather too wet to play with earth so attention shifted to excavating for the entrance apron / ramp and also a trench to house the Aco storm drain channel. There is a suitable drain adjacent to the corner post of the upper Pig Palace so Darren chopped out vast quantities of my farm yard to accommodate it. The storm drain will sit between the slope of the entry ramp and the slight slope of the farm yard hopefully preventing flooding.
I took delivery of the replacement Cat5 patch panel which I installed in minutes with no issues this time, and also the circuit breaker and conduit clips so at least that's all now finished.
PekkaNF:
That big roof area is going to dump a whole lot of water on the side.
If I got it right, you have located this building somewhat higher on the site and that should pretty much take care of runoff, even if the drain is floded in torrential rain. Only problem we had with that sort of building was a puddle on 5 metres on front of it.....heavy machines moved and turned right after entrance has tendency to compact the ground.
Pekka
awemawson:
Pekka you are right, huge run off from the roof, but all that water is directed to the rear of the building directly into a stream (branch of the River Line) so none comes anywhere near the farm yard thankfully.
The storm drain channel is purely to drain what falls on the yard itself and is ducted again into the stream.
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