Steel Frame Erection pt1 | Garage Shop Project Ep21
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2023
- EPISODE 21 - GARAGE SHOP PROJECT
The steel frame is finally being erected and we start sprouting from the concrete slab. There is a lot of calculations and stress to get the metal posts in the correct positions
Ian & Julie are building their biggest project of their lives - a Passive House Container Home which will be totally off grid, alongside their tiny homestead allowing them to live as close to self sufficient as possible in the heart of the French Pyrenees.
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Just a note: two actually........those bolts into the concrete, I would have kept the finally tightening until the top structures are on, because you will have to do some pushing and pulling which will be easier if the whole is not under tension. No.2.....That drill.....and your wife being so close...always have her wear safety glasses, because, working hard the drill can actually throw out hot little pieces of brush..(hot carbon fragments can blind)....all drills do this after they have been used a little.......thats why the brushes are often replaceable.
We did loosen and yes after the top structures were put on it is all out of plumb but I am waiting for the first section of siding to go on and I will brace it back to 90º and secure it then. Yes, I told her I will get her some glasses soon...😉
Oh no! That sinking feeling when you start to hear the music and you know the end of the video is coming 😢 Great work as always!
☹️ I never know how long people want to watch. I think the next one may be a bit longer as there is so much to do.
Brilliant work guy’s always remember safety first
Cheers Tam - yes I can't kill off Julie, I will be starving 🤣
Thanks
Cheers Tam, really appreciate it ♥️
I see that you have made progress. I hope that you are able to get the top put in without having any issues.
Yes, you will see in the next episode the use of the new hoist was well worth the rental.
Another enjoyable episode 👏
Can't wait to see the next😁
Cheers Dominic 👍🏻
Hi you 2 Ian I think you need to invest in some proper steel toe capped boots and ditch the trainers. Great video.
I do have several pairs, but when I kneel down my toes crush to the end and I end up with black nails, Also they drag loads of mud onto the slab. I wore them all summer doing the concreting though 😀
Great work guys 👍😎😎❤️
Cheers Brian 👍🏻
I love following your progress. My wife and I had a similar project about 10 years ago and had the same issue with the overhead trusses. Using the same logic you used as to the safety of overhead winching, we hired a crane for the job, which was money well spent, but cost $500.00 we hadn't planned on. Stay safe, we love your project.
Cheers Kenton - the rental costs are always extortionate and I try my hardest to get around them, but sometimes it is needed.
Hello Ian and Julie. That's very hard work for just two people. All that measuring and drilling and fitting. Just be as safe as possible. Injuries aren't fun. I'll be watching my friends.
Thanks Joel - yes, today I feel terrible, swollen knee, crushed middle finger.... the lists goes on. When it reaches 10 ailments I might go and see the Doc 😉
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I'm sorry to hear that. You might want to be checked out anyway. Just to be on the safe side.
Having a plasma cutter and welder I would have made short work of those tabs... But of course that's not what you expect and paid for. Safety is priority number one, use a hard head and rent the proper equipment when lifting heavy materials.
I took my welder down but I just didn't have enough power either from the Ecoflow or my Generator. I would have just ground them off and welded them but I do not have mains power on site ☹️
@@HomesteadingUncontained I recently bought a Bluetti AC200max and some solar panels , have to test if it can power my Kemppi evo 200 welder. I'm in Hungary renovating a 100 year old farm house to live as much as possible off grid and self supporting.
You’re doing a wonderful job on this. All the little fitly bits are gonna be so worth it in the end. I think you’ll be very happy with the end result. As Grandad used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing right.”
Thanks - yes, I wake up early thinking have I done it right and what I need in the Van to take with me to do the next bit. Roll on the siding, days of repetitive tasks without thinking too much.
Great work!! Good call on getting the lift.
It was for sure, see in the next episode, the hoist was perfect and we actually only needed it for a day (although we paid for the weekend ☹️)
Quite agree with you regarding the hoist safety comes first
Yes, it was well worth it this week. Much safer and easier to use.
All nice and carefully done. I agree with your decision to change crane strategy when you did - so many disasters are littered with unheeded warnings!
Yes, the host was a great choice - see it on Sunday 👍🏻
Here’s a hint on erecting small iron a good starting point which is the upright or / column the install the horizontal piece bolt one end level other end have a 2x4 ready with clamp and level then install the other upright/ column bolt it and keep moving
Yes, I needed bracing as I am paying for that now. I have managed to correct it with some of the siding I have put on but I hate being out, even a 0.1 of a degree.
On the retaining wall I would have used so called “chemical anchors”. They do not have pressure to the outside of the plug / bolt into the concrete. You drill the hole, clean it with air to blow out the dust, put some chemical anchor in the hole and after that a threaded end. After the paste has hardened you can thighten the bolt.
Because the wall is quit narrow, the force of the now used spread plugs may damage the wall.
After that first hole I started using the chemical cement - I had it for the side of the wall and we then used it on the ground mounts too. The wall is solid concrete with so much steel in it, it should be OK.
Oh my aching back. That hurts just watching you. Hehehe!
Yes, they were little heavy for sure...👍🏻
Your great workmanship continues. These are the days where you eat a lot of fast food...Lol
It seems that way, we go through the whole day and realise we didn't eat lunch. Not losing any weight though 😩
Nice progress...again It's a pity that you guys are so far away...i would give you a hand to put the beams up ;-)
We would love some help... 👍🏻
stressful but doing a fantastic job. well done.
Thank you Gene - I can't wait to get bak on to the repetitive non thinking tasks 🤣
Nice one guys another great vid glad to see safety first 👍
Thanks Claudio - yes, after a few recent injuries I am thinking more about it.
Hi Ian an Julie well now your cooking it's looking great so far hope the parts that need lifting go well
Cheers Garry, yes, the hoist worked a treat - see it on Sunday. 👍🏻
Things are looking quite nice. Good on you. From Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Thank you John, it is coming on now, 3 days on the excavator nd we have even done some landscaping. 😀
To lift things put what is called a gin pole on the tractor bucket. you will be able to safely lift several hundred kilos to the top of your building.
Wow, this is a really smart trick.
I just would not have had the manoeuvrability with the tractor, mine is like turning a supertanker and when the structure start to go up there is definitely no room to move. But for other stuff I will definitely try this 👍🏻
Really starting to take shape with the steel columns in place, pity about your hoist, but you are correct better to be safe than sorry.
Yes, after using the hoist it was well worth the rental, see the next episode Sunday.
Good team work and great job/video. Keep on moving. Saudações from 🇵🇹
Cheers Filipe, it is starting to look like something now.
There was one time 43 years ago when I was a first year apprentice fitter/machinist/every other bloody thing they could force me to do etc, I was ordered to go up on this scaffold above the switched off chemical & acid tanks over the electroplating part of the factory as the boss wanted to put in a 2.4m x 1.2m soundproofing board in front of the exhaust fan in the ceiling on the factory floor. So imagine the guys have rigged up 8m long 50mm x 250mm hardwood boards lengthways on top of these rectangle 6.5m x 1m tanks so that the legs of the scaffold could stand on the boards & the scaffold was 3 or 4 sections high. A long extendable ladder to get up to the platform on top of the scaffold, no harnesses, with 4 guys trying to get this board into place while another 2 guys were putting bolts in.
I got up part of the way on the ladder & as they were moving around at the top the whole thing was swaying a good metre or more at the top all different ways. I freaked out, I said F#%k this & I bailed out leaving the boss to have to take my place lol, he was truly ticked off with me. If they had of put the long planks across the short open sections of the tanks then no probs I would have done it but seeing the long planks bend like a banana in & out of the tanks while the scaffold was spiraling back & forth was nuts. I've worked with scaffold many times over the years & it's very stable so long as it's base is stable & if you're using it with a crane or hoist then you definitely need counterweights or crazy shit happens.
Don't blame you, I don't tend to like heights, but when there is not other option. Comes from climbing mast in the old day when I was in the Navy. Harnesses got in the way so used to take it off once up on the yard arm (fixing antennae and what not)
@@HomesteadingUncontained I don't mind the heights all that much I used to do abseiling down 4 story buildings for fun in one jump.
Great progress! It is really starting to take shape. I am very impressed with your attention to detail - it makes a huge difference.
I did cringe when I saw Julie's unprotected eyes just inches from that concrete dust! Protection is a nuisance but it takes only ONE shard of concrete in your eye to ruin your day.
Safety squints is what you need!
And holding your breath saves on masks.....🤣 I have now got glasses for her 👍🏻 (she did have them anyway)
Cheers Richard - I was cringing when I edited the video, she does have them and I will make sure she wears them in future, specially as she has a go at me all the time about not wearing mine. 🤪
Good progress Ian & Julie. Do you have a portable air compressor to blow out the anchor holes? If you were closer I would drop in some steel cap work boots! Cheers Dave
You dont needs a compressors, just a Hose Snibbet with 60/70 Cm and your pulmonary pump. LOL. Put the hose in the bottom of the hole and blow. A hose like the carburateurs use is sufi.
I did bring along my compressor and did this, first one, face full of dust) 🤣 But I did over drill the holes so there was room at the bottom.
Love your videos. New subscriber!
Thank you, next one out on Sunday 👍🏻
@@HomesteadingUncontained I'll be there!
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Thanks Paul 👍🏻
What great work you two have done 😁 I've wimped out with moving the type 1 by barrow and bought a motorised mini dumper, just a coincidence it matches the mini digger 🤔
We have used our new mini dumper so much over the last few days - with the mini digger it is a perfect pair.
@@HomesteadingUncontained lol, I didn't know you guys got one too 😁 I was thinking I was pathetic watching you two heft all that stone by hand
@@draidangraham No, we gave in as we have lots to move about. It is so much easier and takes around 4 bucket loads from the mini diner (80cm). Good call :)
@@HomesteadingUncontained yup found about the same, dumper can do in one what would take me three wheel barrows
Those 2 beams bolted together would more likely be 200 kg. The hoist should have lifted the 2 beams together or each single piece but you need to use the hoist hook that has the pulley & connect the end of the winch cable to the hoist so that the lifting strength is doubled plus you need to replace the 2.5mm x 8m metal winch cable with 1.8mm x 30m long Dyneema 400 kg rated & put as much of it on your hoist as possible so that you can lift up to heights of 15m.
The scaffold would be able to handle it as it can hold up to 6 men weighing 100 kg each on top of it. I'm not sure if you did this or not but if you're lifting 200 kg 1m away from the side of the scaffold then you also need a counterweight of equal weight on the other side of the scaffold hanging out about 1m so that it won't tip over like you thought it was going to.
I know, I had calculated it all and I did double up the cable (I always do). I think it was the angle or the position, not sure. But that motor tried but would not winch. Then I looked up at the scaffold buckling so I didn't pursue it any further. Stripped it all down in disgust 🤣
@@HomesteadingUncontained Pretty sad that every handyman tool nowadays is completely false about their loading.
How does that steel framework manufacturer get it so wrong? And when they deliver it it takes 5 times as long as it should! They’re lucky you guys are patient
I know, it got worse, but we are nearly at the end of their supply. The engineers are great but their commercial is awful.
Hello there, are you blowing the dust out of the holes prior to hammering in the bolts?
We do blow them out but also slow drill sweeping away the crud as it comes out. Plus I over drill so any bits will fall below the bolt. We started putting in chemical cement as well just to be sure.
@@HomesteadingUncontained Glad to hear it. I'm in Christchurch, NZ, still repairing the earthquake damage of 12 years ago to our industrial building. Having to lift 13 tonne tilt panels and put in the required strengthening and cross bracing. Using a lot of epoxy cement and fastenings. A complete new floor is required also. I hope to be finished in about a year or so. Very much enjoying watching you toil away. Don.
Mmmmm... 200kg hoist - 510Watt motor. Ecoflow Delta 2 - 1800Watts continuous...... someone is telling porkies!
That is what I thought but the motor tried but just would not pull. Maybe it was the angle or something but overall it did not look safe when load was applied ☹️
It’s not a watch there’s a tolerance
I keep telling myself that... but I alway strive for the best when doing it for yourself (which costs me so much time, I must admit and a lot of needless stress 😩).
Do your parents know what you are doing ? Easy to say , but don't stress yourself too much your stressing me out.
I wish they took notice. They laughed at us when we built our first house 25 years ago...now they have just given up 🤣
Well you two are doing a great job , I don't miss a video.