Popular Post fletch Posted December 15, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted December 15, 2014 After seeing all the sheds going up everywhere recently, actually since i started reading everybodys shed threads i felt like i was missing out. I decided on a farm style pole shed cos they are relatively good size vs cost mainly. Plus somebody would come and assemble it and be gone in a week. (weather, fishing conditions, fridays, depending..) I have gone for a 9x13.5m Flat roof, 4.2m at the front, 3.7 at the rear. They are made in 4.5m squares as the timber comes around 4.6-4.8m long and 4.5m is enough for 3 round bales wide as a haybarn. Couple of roller doors on the front, Should just have enough clearance for a hoist! First i had to clear some trees on the land we have just bought. There were 20 big as pines, over 40 years old that had to go. Their location meant i could not just blow them up and lt them fall. I got a local contractor with some decent gear to do it for me The first tree was one of the biggest. The grapple got ripped off the boom when it came down over the digger. yay. Part way through Total cost was a fair bit due to the effort of pulling the trees up the bank. Was offset by the 3 truck and trailer loads of logs that went to the port however. I could have got more selling the whole lot to the guys that do firewood but i didnt want a bunch of noisy cunce rocking up with chainsaws and wood splitters for the next year. Another problem was proximity to the paper road that is on the edge of our property. the previous owner was here when the paper road was new and planted trees in the middle of it so the road is hard against the far boundary and we get a free 1/2 acre. This meant the shed has to be in the middle of the paddock as the resource consent was for 5m from the boundary. Oh yea, despite paying 1000 for a building consent, the pricks who make the rules said i needed to also get resource consent cos its less than 30m from the boundary and i needed signed permission from the neighbour on that side. Another 1100 thanks. Anyway i got the ground cleared. turns out its not the flattest part of the paddock. by 600mm haha But it is nearly as big as our house! poles up the next day Then it was good fishing tide so they went diving for some crays and came back and did this in the afternoon Should be finished soon. Then i need 55m3 of fill to level up the floor and concrete. but everybody seems to be in some kind of rush cos its xmas. They all say 'OH, you want it done by xmas? well you see we are really busy, blah blah cost cost' SO concrete next year. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jono007 Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Mean bro, gonna be sweet. Who did you use for the shed? I looked at Goldpine out Stratford for a similar sized shed about 12 months ago. I kinda like idea of timber as not 100% sold on steel framed sheds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRWEST Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 those sheds are definatly 10000000000000000000000xxxxxx solider than steel framed. my steel frame shed was flimsy as fuck till we got the iron on. Timbers the way to go for hanging shit on the wall/building shelves and stuff as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 I got it from Standard Timber ITM Stratford. Pretty good to deal with. No hassles etc. Yea one of the selling points is that it wont be a creaker in the high wind zone here, and all the sweet hanging points. Also Finished Water tank coming this weekend. Maybe will get fill installed and front of shed cleared for more concrete 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 THAT is a shed, nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 55 meters of fill.. that's a shit ton, I take for drives/paths as well? Sweet shed tho.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Nah, thats just inside. 100mm fill in one corner and 650mm in the opposite corner so an average of around 350-400mm over the whole area of 121m plus a bit extra is around 55m3 looking at a 6m strip across the front for parking also. Getting a few quotes this week for the concrete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Done a bit of slaving the last few days with a shovel and barrow to level a pad for the water tank. Got the tank from Devan tanks. $3400 delivered for 30,000L Its 450kg so it was stuck there for a while. Then Ray came to visit yesterday and we did some towing Result! Have to plumb it up this week and also tie it down in case the wind picks up before it rains 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Done some more work. Got a lot of fill in there and levelled most of it. Got the base of the all important hoist marked out and dug out to be 200mm thick Then i rolled it with my work car until my clutch leg got sore but i couldn't get all the edges. I hired a compactor after work today and pushed it round until my hands went numb. I also left it on autopilot here and there.... G3rF4lNX1o 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danger Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 Don't know if its applicable where you are but careful they don't hit you with a fill cert for >600mm. Also is that a panther? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted April 20, 2015 Author Share Posted April 20, 2015 Don't know if its applicable where you are but careful they don't hit you with a fill cert for >600mm. Also is that a panther? N/A already signed off. The floor is not a structural part of the shed so anything goes. Yes it is a panther. It bites me when I don't feed it at 6 am sharp, or if I don't leave it any milk in my weetbix bowl. And it thinks I need more killing practise cos it brings me live animals at night 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 Done some more work and then 7am this morning 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted June 13, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2015 took this 5 mins ago 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I meant to say in this thread before you did the floor, that if you lay an RSJ/UB in the floor, you have something to weld to if the need arises. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Sweet shed man! damn your cat is big! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fletch Posted July 17, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 17, 2015 Some progress.... 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Nice man! Should catch up for a beer sometime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 Yea good idea. I'm on call this week. anytime after is good. have you got a 4wd? I have another datto I need to drag from one shed to the new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglia4 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Dads got a vx land cruiser I can grab any time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fletch Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 Dads got a vx land cruiser I can grab any time. Cheers man, ill let you know when im planning to move the car. I had talked myself out of painting the floor due to cost but i just saw bart's floor and i want Anyway, where was i... I made these perfect rebates in the floor for the doors so the rain would not get blown in However, i did not take into account the thickness of the lip on the bottom of the door. fuck. A bit of head scratching and discussion over many beers and the answer was obvious. Flip the tracks around Just needed a few blocks of wood to pack out the mounting brackets. Next mission was a trench for the power cable and while i was at it, water pipes too. Power cable was 75m long, 600mm deep, and about another 130m of 300mm deep for water pipes. a chain trencher is an awesome tool, sooo much better than the shovel. Its also great at finding things you never knew were buried. Like my neighbours water pipes, and various electric fence cables About 3 hours trenching, works out to 9 hours of back filling The left over concrete was poured into a pad at the end of the shed to make a small shelter for my water pump and also compressor to keep the noise as far away from her indoors as possible Next up was finishing the trench by hand. I found 3 downpipes, 2 water pipes, 1 power cable, and 2 electric fence cables here. wont be doing that again. I also ripped out the 20 year old downpipes as they had a good build up of dust, leaves, dead birds etc. I replaced them with a screen thingy and also a first flush diverter that i have half ifnished Thats about as far as i have got. Its been raining here after work for a while. Next job is -install the power cable at both ends -build a pump shed -do some more plumbing -wire up the shed -build some shelving -level the ground out front and pour about 80m2 more concrete -work on some cars. maybe. next year? 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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