Well you might remember my last generator project, I found a little kubota 6500w diesel. Several people and generator "site's" told me that 6.5kw was enough. It may just be me, but I swear I heard appliances struggle and that bothers me to no end. Then I found this beauty. 20kw and sitting on a 200 gallon fuel tank, but it needs a building. My meter and transfer switch is about 100' away from our building so for convenience and noise concerns, that's where it's going. It's 10' wide x 9' deep for plenty of room to access any side of the generator. Here's the "foundation". 4x10 pt timbers scrounged from a ferry boat pier deck replacement. It's sitting on an excavated 2' gravel bed on well drained soils, again for simplicity and costs. I cut these for the floor, 2 1/2" thick.
20 Kw If your lights dim.. it's because you want them to Hope that little unit didn't hurt the savings
The guy I bought the bigger generator from is a Cummins dealer and he said he could sell it in a minute to a maple producer for $5-6k with the insulated enclosure that I made. Right now that's what I use when the power is out. This is the generator building as of today.
Holy moly!!! 4x10 joists and 2.5" thick flooring. That's not a generator building, its an amory!!! Nice job, looks great!!!
Or I started it a good bit before I started this post I have a post in "The sawyer room" as I finally bought a saw mill, and this is my first project that I cut the lumber out of my trees. Incredibly satisfying to say the least. Those dates are a little more accurate.
I did the math, converted the cu/ft to gallons, then found the weight of #2 fuel and estimated the genny's weight. Figured that it's easier to over do it instead of re-doing it. The joists, heck, it's what I had (scrounged) but it was a 100 mile trip each way but a beautiful ride to the Lincolnville ferry on the beautiful coast of Maine. I made 2 trips like this and this is the portion that got replaced. That's the new deck. and a bonus view down the ramp. The ferry loads to the right. It was mid April, just coming out of winter and just a fun change. Not to mention they were free. I had visions of garden box's raised up on legs at waist height but the planks are pretty rough on the traffic side, worn unevenly (in thickness) from one end to the other and in general pretty rugged looking. I mainly was interested in the treatment of the lumber. "Timbers", are not subject to the epa or whoever it is that screwed up the goo that they inject into what's called dimensional lumber ( 2x's etc) and subject to kids licking and knawing on it (I guess). I do make some good finds on Craigslist. Both generators and a bunch of other building supplies. In fact I was going to build the double doors so that the generator would fit through, but found some small (7'x7') very arttractive garage doors just yesterday,
As your skills build, your grunt is fading . At least in the construction trade. It's a good thing that I'm working on my own chit. I'm just too cheap and fussy to pay a bunch of young kuckleheads that know everything, just like I did when I was a young.......
I think it's the full dimension "sawmill" lumber with clean square corners that make it look good, but thanks. Anymore if I pick up a 1.5' x 3.5' "stud" it feels like a silly little piece of trim, both in size but particularly the weight. Most of that lumber was a still a tree a few days ago.
will it dry and through building out of square or not a problem to to grade of material and being out building?
Yes, I've never had any problems but most of my use is for non finished (sheds - barns) type use. I did use green rough sawn in a small 2 story addition to the house without any problems, but I'd be cautious if it were a drywall interior, but after looking at and building drywall homes forever, I'm sick of it, besides me and a mud pan & trowel do not mix well .
Pretty hard to carry a few boards, climb a ladder, pound in a handful of nails or cut a board to length with a phone in your hand.
Getting into the slower parts along with some other distractions. Not a lot to show but I'm trying to get to the point where I can confidently order the little bit of metal for the roof. The overhangs are time consuming, especially cutting my own lumber. Some of those soffits boards are 14" wide and heavy, a real adventure in creativity putting them up by yourself.
