Ep2 Reinforcing A Portable Garage from Harbor Freight

I Need to sandblast and paint my bug away from the rain and mosquitoes, and whatever I erect needs to stand up against Nor'easters! Bernoulli bought me a portable garage from Harbor Freight, so let me show you how I erected it and reinforced it so it can stand up to the weather here in Teddyland.
Transcript:
Welcome back kids! Today, we will be showing you how we are going to be setting up the temporary shelter that we’ll be making where we can spray, sand, and everything else that we need to fix the body of our car.
My producer and cameraman, Bernoulli, got me this portable garage from Harbor Freight. Good boy Bernoulli! [off-screen bark]
The problem with the tents that Harbor Freight offers is that they’re not strong enough to last the winters that Teddyland has here. I mean, last year, we had so many teddie’s houses roofs collapse. And, I mean, that’s a terrible way to die! So, what we’ll be showing you is how to reinforce this tent so that it’s strong enough to last through the winters and the weather and everything else that we may come across.
It’s always a good idea to first count all your parts to make sure you have everything. I’ve already done that, and now I’m gonna put together the metal frame so that I can take measurements for my reinforcements.
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Mosquitoes!
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Now how am I gonna get these two tall pieces together?
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Eureka!
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Girl Power!
This drinking is a lot like the steel tubes used in the frame of this tent. It has a lot of compressive strength, which means you can push on it really hard and it’ll be perfectly fine. It also has a lot of tensile strength, which means you can pull on it.
Now you’ll notice, when I try to push this relay with this straw, it’ll do a perfectly good job. However, when I do this, it’ll stay like that permanently, as will a steel tube, and it can’t push it at all.
Walls made out of tubing like this will skew or twist in high winds or other types of pressure. Now, if you’re inside when it skews or twists, well, that’s a terrible way to die!
Now let me ask you something, what would Chris Hemsworth do to reinforce this?
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Chris Hemsworth would put in cross braces!
Now you’ll notice, when the tent skews, the distance between this point and this point gets longer. So if you put in a cross brace with tensile strength, that’s not possible. You will also notice that if the tent tries to twist, the distance between this point and this point gets shorter. So, if you have a cross brace with compressive strength, it won’t happen.
This is a wall with cross braces, and this is a wall without. If I try to push this relay this way, it can’t, because it introduces a skew. However, with this one, it can. Now if I try and push it this way, it can’t either, because it introduces a twist. Now this wall, however once again, can. Now as you can see, Chris Hemsworth would clearly choose the wall with cross braces. So we can get rid of this one!
The other problem that needs to be solved with this tent is that this tent needs to last a year, and we have terrible winters here in Teddyland. So I’m going to be creating a rigid roof to help support the snow.
Our roof panels need to be 47 inches long.
I’m going to be using 2 by 4’s for my roof endbeams. My roof has a 22 and a half degree pitch, so I’m going to be ripping the top edge of my two by fours to meet that angle. I’m gonna change the angle of my blade to 22 and a half degrees first. Now I’m gonna change the height of my blade so that it can reach through my two by four. Now I’m gonna set up my rip fence to the right length.
Now I’m ready to start ripping.
Remember kids, safety first! I should be using a blade guard because falling face-first into a spinning blade is a terrible way to die! However, it often gets in the way when ripping, so I can’t right now. I am going to be using my safety glasses and my ear plugs.
Girl Power!
I’m going to need 24 rafters, and I don’t want them to be as heavy as normal two by fours, so I ripped them in half length-wise so that now they are one-by-four nominal.
I’ve cut all my pieces, including 60 noggins out of one-by-two furring strips. Now I’m going to assemble my roof panels using first my brad nailer to temporarily hold the pieces in place, and then next with screws to permanently keep them there.
These roof panels are very light weight so that they’re easy to lift into place and so that they don’t add too much weight to the structure of the tent. The rafters and noggins should give enough support for the tent to withstand a heavy snow as long as I get out and rake the snow off the next day...