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A building for the mill

Discussion in 'The Sawyer Room' started by fuelrod, May 18, 2021.

  1. Flamestead

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    I’m really liking this idea. I’ve covered some doors with curtain hung from a cable, but it feels so temporary. I like a rolling barn door, but have been intimidated due to worries of warping.
     
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  2. fuelrod

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    I've got a hemlock sawbuck that I put together probably 10 years ago by now. The "feet" are in the dirt and going bad, but from there up their perfect.
    I've found that most any wood given the opportunity to dry, especially from all sides and not continuously damp will give you surprisingly good results out in the rain. :thumbs:
    Now that I'm thinking about it, all my firewood racks, wood cutting table and a few other doo dads are hemlock. All are un painted or treated.
     
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  3. fuelrod

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    A few years ago I built a 12' wide single rolling door and used structural steel studs, like you'd see on some commercial work. They're available in different guage thicknesses and for that size door I just didn't trust wood. It's a pretty big panel, 11x12. Rock solid. 20220605_210946.jpg
    I filled the "C" with wood so that I could use the normal "barn metal" screws to attach the metal siding.
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    The white is the back side of the tyvek.
    Metal seems to be even more expensive than wood now and I didn't even price it out for the new doors. They were pretty heavy guage, iirc 16ga.
     
  4. fuelrod

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    Ok, now the front doors.
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    Being 12'4" tall I decided to build them on sawhorses, the other 2 doors are just under 10' and weren't too bad to build in place.
    I got them built and anything that might see rain got painted.
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    The trouble was going to be finagling them in with the one side out beyond the overhang, you can see that there's little room to work with and I was just hopeful that it fit. Removing a section of track would involve the siding, battens, and the aluminum cover.
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    Here's the door sitting on the dirt, looking like a royal pain to try this alone. Being a proper hard headed sumbich I said to myself wth, it'll work or it won't.
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    Me and the SS got it much to my surprise. One more panel to go then I need to find a couple of 13' logs to cut the siding. Right now I think I'll just go with regular battens with maybe a few live edge ones sprinkled in.
     
  5. fuelrod

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    Then there's the lean to.o_O 20220621_111153.jpg
     
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  6. The Wood Wolverine

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    Looking absolutely awesome Fuelrod! :yes:
     
  7. Chaz

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    I put my eastern door, (an end door) off its track, had to undo the bolts and drop/reset the door by myself
    :hair:

    Don't want to repeat that experience.
    :yes:

    Backstory..
    Good bit of snow, I was opening it up to get wood out, kept pushing snow with door, pushed the "end block" clean out of the track.
    :picard:
     
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  8. Eric VW

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    Bet you won’t try that hernia snaggin’ move again Chaz :hair:
    :handshake:
     
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  9. Chaz

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    Nope.
    :picard:

    Couldn't lift and put the dropped end back in by myself due to the snow, tried to move the door with only 1 roller set, it bound sideways.

    I was well and truly "stucked"
    :confused:

     
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  10. fuelrod

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    Rafters for the lean to.^^
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    ^^And some more logs to saw. I need about 16 @ 13' long for the front 2 doors below.
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    2x10x16, ^^^ some of the rafters.

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    My load today from at my home depot. :D
     
  11. Softwood

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    That has to be a good feeling!!
     
  12. fuelrod

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    Not to sound "cosmic" or something like that, but it closes the circle to really build it yourself. Like vegetable gardening x10!
    In reality, I'm just a cheap bastard making excuses for my toys. :rofl: :lol:
     
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    And some mighty fine excuses I might add! :thumbs:
     
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  14. Chaz

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    fuelrod are you worried about warping with those boards being so green?
     
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  15. fuelrod

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    Chaz I'm still learning, but at least with Hemlock I haven't had any trouble that doesn't show up right away with a board coming off the mill where the tree has tension in it.
     
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    X2
     
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  17. fuelrod

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    Yesterday it was a tree!
    Who knows, it's possible that it may live on for another 50 years as a door.
    Not far from where this tree grew there's an area where I harvested some beech trees for firewood, that's been 3-4 years ago and the pine that's coming up in the newly sunny, open area is the way of the woods.:yes: This hemlock left a good 50' hole in the sky that will really "release" the much smaller neighboring trees.
     
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    Are those 5/4 boards or a little thinner ?
     
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  19. fuelrod

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    1", that was the middle log out of 3 from that tree.:thumbs: there's 12 boards in that stack.
    86* here and my batteries are fading and the easy chair in the shop that's pretty cool was calling me. :handshake:
    damm chair.
     
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  20. Eric Wanderweg

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    Nice looking boards :thumbs:
    Nothing wrong with a little release work either. This past weekend I cut probably 60+ small sugar maple trees from the woods behind me. They averaged only an inch or two diameter, but when they're all growing 2 feet apart, it's hard for any of them to grow into decent trees, much less let anything else grow underneath them. Now the oaks and black cherry trees have half a chance under a thinned canopy.
     
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