Building a Smithy Behind My House
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2021
- Today we are out, next to the shop, building a lean-to, to cover my outdoor Blacksmith Shop, commonly known as a Smithy. I've been a hobbyist smith since taking a nail making class in 2018. Since then I have been sharing my shop space with an ever-increasing amount of blacksmith supplies, and decided it was time to give this hobby its own space.
We picked up the roofing material from Devon's in-laws earlier in the year, who graciously donated it to the cause. Then when the snow melted, the plans began. After a good amount of planning, and coordinating with friends and family, we started the build. First I had to prep the space. There was quite a large Privet bush that had to be removed, and then the land relatively leveled. We marked, dug, and set the posts in concrete for the four corners. Then we connected them with the four stringers, and cut diagonal supports for each corner. We then built the frame for the ten by twelve foot roof on the ground before lifting and setting it in place. We connected it to the stringers with hurricane ties, and then covered it with sheets of half inch OSB. We were finally able to use the metal roofing from the start of the project, and puzzle-pieced it together with a few additional materials to cover the roof. Lastly we brought every thing out of the shop and set it up.
I'm really happy with the way it turned out, and have since installed lights inside. It will definitely be a great addition to the shop space and the channel, in future videos.
A huge thanks goes out to everyone who helped out on this build. My Dad, who was there every day with me. Sean from "Crafting a Life I want". Check his builds out on his UA-cam channel and Instagram under the same name. Our good friends Brian and Liz. And Devon, who helped out quite a bit on this project in-front as well as behind the camera. It was a great experience to be able to collaborate physically and mentally with everyone, working together to make my vision a reality. I could not have done it nearly as well and smoothly on my own, let alone as quickly, without their help. Thanks!
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Solid ass labor right there
M81 Gods camo 👌
And here I was, thinkin' I'd be the only one here with an appreciation for the old M81.
What a well - fed dog , probably feed it well !
Had one for ten years. One of the most rewarding and relaxing projects ever. No electricity, just antique oil lamps and a hand cranked Buffalo Forge blower. Gasoline powered grinder and a coal forge I built myself using a truck brake drum. FANTASTIC man-cave hang out,too!
A genuine very old 400 pound anvil was my "centerpiece". You are THE MAN!!!
Watching your daughter help you out brought back some serious ugly-cry memories for me. When I was 15, I built several lean-to sheds like yours with my dad for our livestock to use as shelters out in their pens. I was always at the workbench or in the toolbox with my father as a kid, and I miss him terribly now that he is gone, but the things I learned and the time we spent together are so precious to me. Your daughter will cherish these memories forever, not just because she learned how to do things, but because she learned them from you. Keep making stuff together.
It really is some of the best time to spend with our kids. Glad you and your Dad got to make those memories! Thanks for watching Cristia!
I got to see my dad for the first time in 4 months over the weekend, watching you work with your dad on this was lovely. I'm only slightly jealous! Good job everyone, I bet the free space makes a difference too.
Looks good, Dustin! Looking forward to the first forging video in the new smithy! 😉
Looks great Dustin! Always good to have help.
Great use of space it was calling you for years and free up some space in the shop. Great video well done
Nothing better then have dad power around when you need it, love it.
So sorry to hear about Sadie.
I'm definitely finishing mine thanks for inspiration.
Nice work guys! It’s cool to see this project come to life after talking about it! Can’t wait to see what projects come from it!!!
I like the scabbed together patchwork roofing. This was an excellent vid, I really like that you put it all together in one instead of breaking it up to have more videos. Well done, enjoy that outdoor smithy!
Thanks Jeff. We try to keep them long form, so you’re not searching to find parts.
Looks Great!!
Turned out awesome!
Next time you have to remove a stump, just grind it down. They have like 15-20 dollar wood grinder wheels for an angle grinder at Harbor Freight. I used on huge root for putting in some pipe and works great. Just clean the teeth out every once in a while. 9:49
Awesome outcome. Was bittersweet seeing Sadie, but a fond remembrance of and for her. Sadie Smithy sounds like a winning name for the new spot. All my best to you and yours. Looking forward to the first full video of using the new space.
Thank you for the kind words Mike. That is a great name!
Great video and motivation for me to build a lean-to smithy at our new house! Only criticism I have (and its constructive lol) is that I was always taught when attaching sheet metal roofing to run the nails or screws on the tops of the ribs. This way if the gasket ever fails, rain water won't be running right over the hole. Also, you may look into adding half walls, or wall that are 3-4 foot high as wind breaks, stop snow drifting, helps dampen light so you can better see the color of the steel, contains sparks at forge welding heats, etc. And lastly, not sure where you're located, but here in Indiana those corner posts would most definitely frost heave. I believe I will have to sink my corner posts much deeper. Excellent build though and it gets me excited to build my smithy finally
Great job 👏🏻
Impeccable timing! We have been walking our backyard to figure the size of a Smithy shed. Your video gave me a ton of ideas and inspiration. BTW your knife from a circular saw blade is what got me started in the blacksmithing/knifemaking hobby, so I guess my wife can blame you ;) I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your pup.
Lol. I’m happy to be an enabler when it comes to making. Good luck.
I love working outside under some shade, you could incorporate your downspout to feed a quench tank before draing it away from the house.
That's amazing..
Awsome job!!!!!!!
That’s a nice addition and it touched deep with me seeing an outdoor smithy setup. My grandfather used to always work out by the feed shed when I was a kid. Most of us myself included think we need to start with the best equipment and the most grandiose space. That’s something to work towards but anymore I find the most important aspect is just the making. Making while including the family. Beautiful content brother. 2X👍
100% true. I’m glad I could bring back some fond memories.
Good Job. It will be totally worth it once you start using it. 👍👍
Great setup! It could be a good idea to add some sort of steel box to use as a "dark box" to check temps for forge welds. I definitely want to start a setup similar to yours though because forging inside my shop is brutally hot sometimes.
People often forget a fly ash cinder catcher. For the forge.
Both great ideas. Thanks guys.
I really appreciate what you do, with no frills and no presence. My basement workshop and yours look very similar. I may now have to build a Smithy! Blessings to you and your family and keep up the inspiring videos.
Hope you do! Thanks for watching C&T.
Sorry for your loss of Sadie. I just had my first anvil dropped last night, as I plan to get into doing a little blacksmithing in the near future. I can't wait to see what you make, that may inspire me. - Jeremy
Hi Dusting. What a nice project! The best for you is that a dream is now real. Congratulations a lot. What nice things are you goingtm make in this channel.!!
Thanks Miguel! I’m very excited.
The only thing I can say is that you must have a great wife cos mine would never allow me build anything that disected a couple of windows on the house. Love the knife making. Happy new year
Lol. Yeah, that’s the window into our studio/music/knitting/storage room.
Great job!!! So sorry about Sadie!!!
Good work it gave me some ideas for my smithy I just started thank you as for a crew to help me well.............
Cheers!
Sorry to hear about Sadie Dustin. I really like your "Smithy". It turned out great and I really like how you filmed it! Now you can make us a Bowie out of a farriers rasp!
Well done.
Thanks
Another great video
Thank you
Great video guys!! Watching this reminded me of building our chicken coop about four years ago with my dad. It's currently going through a repurposing to become a green woodworking shop/smithy!! In some part (at least) Thanks to you guys!!!. 😊
Keep up the absolutely amazing work.
Love the channel, love the podcast.
Tom, Leeds, UK.
🤜🤛🤘🤘
Thanks brother!!! I’d love to see the work shop when it’s done!
I would face the back of forge facing out the front corner not towards the house. It will get very hot over1000 degrees and that corner will trap the heat. Just a thought.
Nice shed! And may i compliment you on the spot where you life?! Lakeview in nature really beautiful
I see four posts perfect for a mounted fire extinguisher ;)
Beautiful Dustin. Suggestion for a first project from The Smithy - I need a froe. Can you help a brother out?
Great video, looks like Y’all used a “Wyoming Saw” to cut those concrete forms.
A problem with this project? Yes. No BBQ and some beers for the helping Friends!
Great project! THX
Lol!! Yeah, they were all down in the shop, but it was PIZZA and Beer.
Hello you have a chance to have space.
Nice work !!! Bernard
Neato Big Dust and Fam!
Thanks Tom!
Video must be from a while ago. Have not had any snow in MD since early Feb.
Brother your property is awesome. I love the pond…. nice feature! Is it stocked??
Been following for a little over a year... This is one of my favorites I wish I could queue up the next few (future) posts and binge. To break in the space properly how about forging up some basic smithy tools like tongs and such? Keep it coming!
That's a great idea! That might be coming up soon. Thanks so much for joining us this last year.
Enjoyed the video and your ingenuity in using what you had. Be careful the water from your cellar entrance roof doesn't wash off into your area, or the retention walls you built around it are going to act like a damn and pool up water or cause water to run out across your entire area.
That’s a good point! Thanks.
Sweet :)
Noticed the roofing paper mistake as well and it looked like a couple of tin sheets went from top to bottom I thought they should go bottom to top BUT you may want to look into sealing the roof it'll help with possible leaks and the color just a suggestion - great job looking foreword to the next video
Awesome job Dustin 'The Smithy', some real sweat equity there, indeed. You realise you've just raised the bar somewhat? Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the good work. :) RIP, Sadie.
Thanks Pedro. I’m excited for the projects that will come out of it.
I'm sure sorry this video is in remembrance of Sadie. I know how it hurts to lose a good dog.
Thank you Will, it is tough.
It is really hard to lose your dog. They become just like family. Sorry.
We lost our Maggie. She was a black lab. My baby girl. 🙁
I felt the same way when my dog died of cancer in mid January of 2021. :(
She was 12.70 yrs old.
That was an excellent video,are you going to treat the wooden posts for protection against the wet weather?
They’re pressure treated.
Was happy seeing it all come together. But sad your pooch is gone.
I know what that feels like my dog died too back this last January at age 13 yrs old. :(
Thanks. It was nice to have her with us so much during this build.
@@TheArtofCraftsmanship She had cancer of the intestines and unfortunately was dying slowly over a few months. :(
@@notthatdigusted7468 yeah, that’s tough. We suspect Similar for Sadie. Fortunately, other than some arthritis, she was pretty healthy up until the end.
@@TheArtofCraftsmanship Unfortunately too this was a bad time for me because around the same time my mom was run over while crossing the street and killed by some worthless sob (son of a bitch excuse the language) speeding up the hill near my house. How screwed up is that. :(
It'll be nice for you to work outside and have great natural lighting. Forge on!!
Heck yeah!
Realy cool can u make a frontier/trading style knife with a native style sheath
That’s not a bad idea.
You better get some covers built for those anvils.
Good idea!
T-25 fasteners, will cut down on stripping out screws and tearing up driver bits. Otherwise good job.
Hey man, I'm not a contractor, but I've laid a couple of roofs. I've never seen tar paper laid parallel with the slope. It should always go perpendicular to the slope and laid from bottom to top with a 4"-6" lap.
Yup. Lol. That’s one thing that slipped through. When my dad showed up later he said the same thing🤷🏼♂️. Next time.
So I'm not the only one that noticed that lol may want to look into sealing the roof it'll help with possible leaks and the color just a suggestion - great job looking foreword to the next video
I did a post vice restoration. I'd love to send you pictures.
I love to see them. Theartofcraftsmanship@gmail.com
I’m confused with why you didn’t go straight metal roof on wood joists
I didn’t have enough of the metal roof to do the whole thing, so I had to put an under layer of OSB to give me a base to build my patchwork roof on. Thanks for watching.
im a blacksmith ...and a tree surgeon ( 20+ years) thats not how you remove a stump with an axe and a chainsaw you made me cry !!!! but besides that good luck with the shop :)
Lol. Yeah, we did what we had to do to get it done. Definitely should have spent more time and effort, but that’s so hard when your as excited about the project as I was, lol. Hopefully it doesn’t come back to bite me.
I am no expert so this is more questions in the form of statements. My understanding is you are much further north than I am (central Illinois) our freeze line is 4' deep, you only went 1' if I was paying attention. Is that enough pitch for the snow load you are bound to have being further north than I am? Shouldn't the tar paper go in the other direction? Cardio, Cardio. Cardio!
Do you have to worry much about wind on your forge being outdoors?
Well...it’s not super windy on my property, but that might be a problem that future Dustin will have to deal with 😉.
Sad news about Sadie!
You can chop apart the roots close to the surface but the lower ones will sprout over time until they receive nutrients. The best solution is to poison the soil where you build, we here in Eastern Europe pour used motor oil between the roots.
It will cause a lot of problems if you concrete the wood straight into it. On the one hand, the template pipe is usually used for drilled circle holes, not for dug holes. We used to pour the previously mixed concrete straight into the dug holes so that the concrete foot takes on the shape of the soil so it will be much more durable and stable. A welded leg made of iron is concreted into it, into which the wooden column is then screwed so that it can be replaced if it rots without disturbing the concrete. Of course, we do not use a wooden column very often, we rather concrete an iron column straight into it. I’m not saying as to hurt, but this is so painfully American construction method. As an Eastern European, watching this is almost frustrating. :D
What size and brand anvil is the newer blue anvil? Thank you.
nice catch 25:44
😁👍🏼
Whoosh, whoosh, ping, ping, ping.....hope you have understanding neighbors for a distance of 10 miles...lol
Lesson no 1, always get rid of young saplings growing near the house when there small....you can take that to the bank!
Agreed! Thanks for watching.
I am interested to see how long this thing will last considering the way you "poured" that concrete.
Why do you set the wood directly into the concrete. The concrete will let water thru and the wood will eventually rot.
We have a cross wind that I wanted to be sure the set up would stand up to. And all the post are pressure treated. Thanks for the thought and comment.
@@TheArtofCraftsmanship I just asked because here its common to set a U-shaped galvanized steel piece into the concrete and then you screw the wood beam between the legs of the "U"
and the wind?
So funny watching city boys doing outside stuff ! 😂🤣😂
No framing gun?
No, I’m not a framer. My buddy brian brought his over, but we made due with our it. Just the right size
I enjoyed the viedo alot. Seeing you guys wrestle everything with impact guns. As long as it turns out fine. Nothing else matters. Good job guys. Have a Corona on me...cheeers
Isn't the forge awfully close to the house???
You need safety glasses
the sheep wearing their masks LOL
Everyone has their own reason. We do what makes us feel comfortable, and let others do the same. That’s my general perspective on life. 😉🍻.
I was thinking the same thing. People living in fear of something that is as likely to kill them as a lighting strike.
I’m cringing at the dudes wearing masks tbh
Same and that elbow bump
Yeah, we had some special circumstance that required a bit more caution. Better safe than sorry.
Yeah, cringe at “better safe than sorry.” Ridiculous
@@TheArtofCraftsmanship fair enough, I don’t have all the info, I just cringe when I see friends hanging out at a private residence wearing masks lol. Gotta do what you gotta do though.
Just me, but no one is coming on my property with a mask on.