Conestoga huts.

[progressive hunter]

They are building these for the homeless...but I can think of many other application.

Greenhouse.

Motorcycle protection.

I'm thinking of building one just for storage. The cattle panels are $25 each and you'd need three. The floor is 6'x10', so two 4x8 sheets of OSB would be $50. Some 2x4s and outdoor paneling for the front and back.

I've got 4x4s for the floor framing.

And some heavy duty tarp and padding.

 

[westwall]

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That doesn't look very level!

 

[Missourian]

That doesn't look very level!

Freezing and thawing without enough weight on it has thrown it out of whack a little.

 

[Missourian]

Thought I posted this already.

 

[westwall]

Freezing and thawing without enough weight on it has thrown it out of whack a little.

I thought so. I get the same issues up here.

 

[Missourian]

Decks all done...



Got the front wall laid out...

 

[Missourian]

I'm only working on this about two hours a day on the warmest day...and this modular tool dolly makes it easy.

I've bought the pieces when they went on sale and I probably have $70 in it. But I have everything I've needed in there for the whole project and can roll it all away and back out and be ready to work. Very convenient when your doing a multi-day job.



Most projects it seems like I spend as much time getting (or finding) the tools as it takes to do the work...so I'm really pleased with this.

 

[westwall]

Decks all done...

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Got the front wall laid out...

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Looks great!

 

[westwall]

I'm only working on this about two hours a day on the warmest day...and this modular tool dolly makes it easy.

I've bought the pieces when they went on sale and I probably have $70 in it. But I have everything I've needed in there for the whole project and can roll it all away and back out and be ready to work. Very convenient when your doing a multi-day job.

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Most projects it seems like I spend as much time getting (or finding) the tools as it takes to do the work...so I'm really pleased with this.

Yeah, I have a lot of friends who borrow my tools and I don't see them for weeks at a time!

 

[Missourian]

Yeah, I have a lot of friends who borrow my tools and I don't see them for weeks at a time!

That's a fact.

 

[Missourian]

There's the back all laid out.

I had a 32x14 basement window, so I framed it in there. The top and bottom are 36in and the outsides are 14.5 in which are set in a quarter inch on each side to leave a 32.5x14.5 inch opening. The board under the window frame are 44.5 inches.

Everything else is the same as the front.

 

[Missourian]

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

They are building these for the homeless...but I can think of many other application.

Greenhouse.

Motorcycle protection.

I'm thinking of building one just for storage. The cattle panels are $25 each and you'd need three. The floor is 6'x10', so two 4x8 sheets of OSB would be $50. Some 2x4s and outdoor paneling for the front and back.

I've got 4x4s for the floor framing.

And some heavy duty tarp and padding.

Star gazing, summer and winter.

 

[Missourian]

Going to rain tomorrow...








Longer thread after dinner.

 

[westwall]

Going to rain tomorrow...


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Longer thread after dinner.

That's a great job man!

 

[Missourian]

That's a great job man!

Thanks. It was a lot of fun to build.

 

[Missourian]

Alright. Important stuff if you want to build one of these.

All the measurements in that layout work, and they all need to be adhered to. The 17.5 inches at the top is perfect for the panel to sit on so one longitudinal wire and two latitudinal wires sit on top of it for support.






The 39 inch width at the top of the door and window is also mandatory...the outside of which is where your 10 foot 2x4 that connect the front and back walls will sit, so the distance from the top of that angled board to the corner of the door frame needs to be slightly more that 3.5 inches...and you should miter those ends, which I didn't do.





When you go to buy the panels, ask if they have any damaged ones. I haul these from the manufacturer, and the straps damage the top panels of every bundle. It's just a couple of 4" bends (the width of a strap) on one edge.

It takes three to make make one of these, so I bought two damaged and one new. Since the center panel overlaps 4 inches over each of the others, put a damaged one front and rear with the damage in the middle and overlap the good panel there. Saved me $10...$65 total for three panels.

Counting from the corner of that 17.5 inch vent board on top, there are 11 opening in the panel on each side and 2 over the top.

You'll need to do some measuring to figure your overhang on the front and back so you end up with 4" overlap on for your center panel. Then you're going to need some vice grips and bailing wire to make everything line up and increase the rigidity of your panel connections.




I'll post the measurements of that tarp tomorrow.

 

[Missourian]

Interior. Whoever came up with this really thought it through. It's important to have the wires that run parallel to the ground to the inside, because one sits on top of each of those 10 foot 2x4s.

 

[Missourian]

Also, if you've never hauled cattle panel before, you don't need a trailer if you have an 8ft bed.

Up to five can be loaded like this.



You really don't even need all those straps.

 

[westwall]

Thanks. It was a lot of fun to build.

I bet!