PumpShed Project

[Nova]

Brad - Da nada glad to be of service.  Your posted link takes me about one second to change to the Timberlinx site so appears to be back to normal again.

[TexasTimbers]

I gottachime in here. That drilling jig IS the cat's meow. I was going to make my own but Niel talked me into buying it - promised I wouldn't regret it. For the money, you can't beat it.

Those Timberlinx guys are great service-oriented folks too.

I read where someone wrote that if you count your time, you can eventually get to the point where it doesn't pay to use timberlinx after you get really quick cutting joints. That may be true - but I ain't really quick and I'm too sloppy to boot, so until I cross that speed and precision bridge, I'm using them.

This is my official endorsemnet! 

[FrankLad]

Raphael:  I contacted Mr. Koehn and he is a super-nice guy.  He has a few things lined up and he said he would prefer to come down during the colder time of year (Sometimes I wonder myself about why I live in such a humid place. )    so we shall see what happens.

It seems too good to be true to actually have an experienced timberframer to help with our house project but we sure don't want to attempt it on our own.

When planning our house, my wife and I sketched a rough idea and then looked to find plans that matched what we had in mind, as opposed to just making our own plan from scratch.  The reason behind this is to have something that has been 'verified' to a degree as far as it being structurally sound.

Here is a plan at North Woods Joinery that is similar to what we would like:

http://www.nwjoinery.com/planbook/h_tpc_lgreatroom.htm

I'd like to know what you guys think.

[Raphael]

  My wife and I looked at using North Woods Joinery and that cape was one of their designs we liked, but it doesn't really fit our area.

[FrankLad]

Raphael:  but it doesn't really fit our area.

That's one of my other concerns.  It looks more like a snowy-mountain getaway type home.

...and we haven't seen snow down here since...........hrm.......  It's been a while, anyway. 

What would fit in this area is more of a rustic country setup, but we haven't really found anything in that style with the space we'd like.

[FrankLad]

Here's another update:

http://www.frankladner.com/shedproject

I didn't take a whole lot of pictures.  Mostly I spent a while figuring out the lengths of the braces, using good ol' pythagorean theorem, and then finding the best locations in the braces to drill.  For that I consulted the Timberlinx installation manual which has an illustration.  I'm bad about measuring, re-measuring, re-re-measuring, etc...  Anyhow, once I got things figured out, I re-adjusted the drilling jig to fit.  Once that was done, drilling the braces went pretty fast.

We got the last post up and cut / placed the girters.  It's starting to look like a structure now. 

We're going very slow, as you can tell, but we've only been able to devote a few hours each Saturday to it.


By the way, Neil at Timberlinx sent an email to let me know the bushings on the drilling jig can be adjusted.  I had it set the way it came shipped but after he told me, I saw where indeed you can loosen a screw with a hex wrench and then slide the bushings in/out.

[FrankLad]

It has been tough to find time for working on dad's shed since my wife and I are also in the process of fixing-up our current home (landscaping, cleaning & re-painting the roof (Calbar)), getting it ready to sell.

At any rate, we did manage to get a beam up and braced, so now it's starting to look like a structure. 

http://www.frankladner.com/shedproject/

[FrankLad]

We're still rolling with the shed construction.....slowly but surely. 

This past Saturday was interesting as we got to lift a fairly large top plate into position.  I did get some pictures of it which I hope to upload in the next day or so.

Also, at the request of a fellow member, I added some pictures to my gallery here.  They are small in size, and the quality isn't the best (due to the 35K limit) so if anyone wants a high quality version of one of the pics, feel free to email me.

[FrankLad]

Updated pictures:

Please use the Forum Gallery for photographs.
admin

[FrankLad]

Here are some highly-compressed, downrezzed images.  Better ones are available at the URL listed earlier.

[Tom]

While I didn't have an original to work from and had to use the previously optimized image, I think this rendition shows that the Forestry Forum gallery requirements are very ample enough for historical renditions.  At 26K, there are even 3K left to play with.




With a little effort, these pictures will be an excellent representation of your project and their inclusion in your album on the forum gallery will assure you that they will be represented in this thread for as long as the Forum exists.  That's got to be worth something.

[Don P]

It's looking good Frank, I see we have the OSHA lifting rig front and center now  . Actually I liked the pics of it and was thinking a 2x4 tied to the topside of each jib to the center bent would stabilize it just in case anything started to sway.

I have spoken to some of the admins about us on this board, we're pretty much the worst offenders for linking offsite. Many of us are maintaining a website of our project for friends and family to see and then the forum asks that we in many cases duplicate the computer work by uploading pics to the forum. I hope everyone will understand, and mostly I hope everyone will put pics on the forum gallery. Its double work in many cases but when you put the pics up here I can assure you they do get looked at, used and learned from, far more than Aunt Fannie ever will  .

I just went through part of what the admins worry about, I switched servers. That would break 6 years of links I've posted on the forum back to my website. I thought about it for a few days and currently have 2 servers and will just keep the old one, I'd hate to get sent to the far end of the piggyroast table around this crowd.

When I asked Frank to put some of his Timberlinx shots on the forum gallery and consider a tutorial thread on them it was because it is something I think many of us would refer back to in the future. I hope everybody understands and posts mo' pics 

[Raphael]

Tom - funny thing about your resized image, it wound up being exactly the same 400 x 365 pixels as the image on Frank's website.

Here is an optimized copy of Frank's original.
50% jpg compression dropped it from 77k to 28k.



The details held up quite nicely at this level of compression.

Frank - What camera do you have?

[FrankLad]

DonP: It's looking good Frank, I see we have the OSHA lifting rig front and center now

 

DonP: Actually I liked the pics of it and was thinking a 2x4 tied to the topside of each jib to the center bent would stabilize it just in case anything started to sway.

We had 'em locked down pretty tight but your suggestion would've been a good thing to do as well.

Raphael: Frank - What camera do you have?

I'm using a Canon Powershot S40 and doing the editing and saving in Photoshop 7.  As far as the compression issue, that just boils down to me being a bit of a purist.    I don't like the side-effects of highly comressed JPG images (ie. "mosquito wings") BUT I do understand why they must
#1: Be small in size
#2: Be stored on this site
...I understand and respect that, and will spend more time optimizing the images in the future.

I have more that I would like to add to my member gallery eventually.

Thanks, guys!


BTW, Raphael... thanks again for recommending Chris Koehn.  His wife is currently designing our house plans (based on our rough sketches) and they are planning to come down and help us with the building.  We're very pleased with their design services so far and are excited about working with them on the actual construction.

[Raphael]

BTW, Raphael... thanks again for recommending Chris Koehn.  His wife is currently designing our house plans (based on our rough sketches) and they are planning to come down and help us with the building.  We're very pleased with their design services so far and are excited about working with them on the actual construction.

Awesome... I glad that's working out for you.  Chris and his wife are really nice people.
  He was so worried about hanging me up when his bridge repair commitment interfered with spending a week cutting joinery here, it made me feel bad to be making him worry.

  We just upgraded to the Cannon Powershot S2 IS and are still figuring out the various functions.  I'm currently aquiring the images using the twain driver and ACDsee Classic as it's got a light foot print and will fetch and save an entire batch of photos fairly quickly.
I'm assuming the image I'm saving is undegraded.

Next time I update my gallery it should be with pictures from the S2.