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Offline zopi

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Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« on: October 23, 2008, 09:18:14 pm »
Sawed out the joists the other day, and raided my stash for sub floor for my 100 year old smokehouse.

A friend of mine in construction gave me several hundred square feet of clear pine T&G flooring and some concrete decking for the roof..the building is 12X12, ought to make a nice tight little workshop...I need to find a little pot belly stove for it though.

I'll eventually put a lean two on two sides of it...wifey wants one for an outdoor canning kitchen.

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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2008, 09:21:19 pm »
On the subject of woodstoves in workshops, don't they dry the air a lot? Would putting a little pot of water on top of them help get a little moisture back?
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2008, 10:04:16 pm »
yep, It's a good idea to keep a pot on..we live in an old house with wood heat...we keep a pot on top
of the stove to keep the woodwork from getting too dry..

There are alot of variables though..how wet is the atmosphere, how big is the shop, how tight is the shop building..how much wood is stored there? Is is greater concern to keep machinery dry, or keep wood from drying out...what kind of finish work is done in the shop?

but in general, i like a pot on the stove..besides, I drink alot of coffee.
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2008, 10:09:46 pm »
I have an old woodstove that I'm probably gonna put in my shop soon. It's about 30x30. I'm hoping it'll keep it somewhat warm. I'll have to see how dry it gets, I'm hoping to keep it so that the wood doesn't dry out too much, but keeping my tools from rusting. Either way, it should be better than being unheated like it is now. (although right now I occasionally use a forced-air kerosene heater).

You're smokehouse-turned-workshop sounds like a neat project. Pictures?
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2008, 03:12:34 am »
30 x 30 is a fair sized stove ifn it's tall enough. :D
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2008, 06:47:57 am »

 We always keep 2 buckets of water on the woodstove at the cabin. It's free warm water for coco or to help save you from heating it up on the gas stove when you need wash water. No hot running water in the cabin. It still gets pretty dry but it helps a little.

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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2008, 11:41:20 am »
Quote from: LeeB on October 24, 2008, 03:12:34 am
30 x 30 is a fair sized stove ifn it's tall enough. :D

Now that's a stove  8)
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2008, 11:59:30 am »
Wow; If the stove is that big, then how big is the shop? 3000' x 3000' ?
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2008, 12:42:31 pm »
I meant the shop was 30x30, in case you didn't catch that.  :)
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2008, 07:53:56 pm »
My next door neighbor is building a 35x40 shop building, and offered me hs certified drawings...my wife said no.


Because she wants a 45x60....wish I had the $$ to pull that off anytime soon.
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2008, 06:50:59 am »
Zopi,if you can swing it insulate your shop,two reasons first easier to heat, more important it will help keep condensation off your tools when the weather changes.Frank C.
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2008, 09:11:57 am »
Quote from: zopi on October 24, 2008, 07:53:56 pm
My next door neighbor is building a 35x40 shop building, and offered me hs certified drawings...my wife said no.


Because she wants a 45x60....wish I had the $$ to pull that off anytime soon.

Go one better... Use the plans, but build two of them butted together, omit the common wall, wind up with 40X70...
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2008, 09:27:27 am »
won't work...the drawings are for the bureauRats at the county...gotta be eggzact.

I hates me some bureauRats.
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2008, 11:44:36 pm »
I got alot done today...ripped the front off the building, replaced most of the studs (partnered them)
and started putting up furring for the vertical siding...started raining on me so I ducked inside and nailed down the subfloor and started laying the T&G pine floor...that's gonna be a sexy floor...wifey cut loose and got me a couple cans of red mahogany stain and some floor urethane...

I'll get out in the morning and put the siding on the front before we go off to Busch Gardens for the last day of the season.

hint to the wise...2" nails don't work well with 2x4's....doh...hadda go to the lumberyahd..3-1/4 much better.
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2008, 11:45:14 pm »
oh...and air nailers rock..I may never swing a hammer again.
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2008, 11:57:52 pm »
Last summer I helped my dad build an addition on to our house, and we used air nailers for everything. We wouldnt have got it done near as fast without them. I've yet to try a screw-gun. I wonder what they are like.
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #16 on: October 26, 2008, 12:28:20 am »
I've got a screw gun...for doing sheet rock....they are awesome!
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #17 on: October 26, 2008, 12:31:31 am »
I had a wood heater one time that was at least 30x30 and if you were 10 feet away you were cold  :D   For a few years I had my shop in a 50x90 brick building that wasnt insulated. Dont miss it at all.
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #18 on: October 26, 2008, 12:46:12 am »
Quote from: zopi on October 25, 2008, 11:45:14 pm
oh...and air nailers rock..I may never swing a hammer again.

You got it Zopi!  A little tip for ya:  I have a 10 gallon air tank, and it will shoot about 60-80 nails through my DeWalt framing nailer.  It's real handy when you're away from power/compressor. ;D
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Re: Finally doing something with wood I've milled.
« Reply #19 on: October 26, 2008, 01:50:58 am »
Quote from: DanG on October 26, 2008, 12:46:12 am

You got it Zopi!  A little tip for ya:  I have a 10 gallon air tank, and it will shoot about 60-80 nails through my DeWalt framing nailer.  It's real handy when you're away from power/compressor. ;D

Go ya one better...I've got a 16ft trailer, about four compressors, buttoads of hose and extension cords and a generator...<GRIN>

Overkill....call it a hobby...
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