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New Tractor Shed
awemawson:
Well at last just a tiny weenie little bit of progress. Final absolute location now fixed - we've moved it a bit over to the south and squared it up to the yard, as although this reduces the little patch of grass to something approaching zero, it means importing far less infill.
Net result is that of the eleven RSJ uprights comprising the frame, nine will sit on concrete pads poured into excavated holes, and two will sit on concrete pads poured in form work and sitting on the remains of the original base of the tank. So for these last two I've made a pair of 750 mm square by 1 metre deep shuttering boxes. When they've been filled and the concrete set, the form work will be removed and the resulting concrete blocks will be buried in hardcore.
(The other nine pads will be the same 1 metre deep by 750 square, but poured into excavated holes)
Spurry:
Andrew
Do you not have to account for the retaining bolts when you pour the feet? Or will they just be drilled afterwards. Perhaps you have a bit better ground than we had, as our cubes had to be 1m sided.
Pete
mattinker:
Andrew, do you have a pallet banding set up? It might be a good idea to band top middle and bottom to reinforce!
Cheers, Matthew.
awemawson:
Yes Matthew that had occurred to me as there will be lots of spreading force :bugeye:
Pete.:
1300kg of concrete in those boxes. On site they would be framed by 3 rows of 4x2 on the outside, top, middle and bottom. Also need fixing down.
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