The Legs All Painted
We started to paint all the legs yesterday but ran out of paint, after ordering some more of the metal primer paint, we finished painting the last steel legs and…
Final Odd Jobs Completed
Over the last couple of days, We took in the shortest steel I Beams into the workshop where a short piece of the top and bottom flanges, at both ends was…
Final 4 Legs with Pieces Welded On!
This afternoon, we unloaded the 3 heavy legs and loaded the remaining 4 lighter legs onto the trolley and transferred them into the workshop. The Foot plates and Top plates…
3 Big Fat Legs All Completed!
Today, we tackled the heavy duty legs (number 1, 4 and 7), each measuring 160mm by 80mm by 5.4metres tall and with a wall thickness is 8mm!! (Each weighs about…
Brackets Painted and Preparations starts on Legs
The 6 steel brackets were hung up in our painting tent this morning and painted this afternoon. Plus also the preparations for making the Steel Legs, all 7 of them,…
Ridge and Valley Support’s Construction Completed
The task of the last two weeks (interrupted by a bought of illness), has been to cut and weld together pieces of 3mm thick steel plates into brackets. These are…
New Replacement Flood Light Created and Mounted
A week ago we put up one of the 300W LED floodlights. We made a timber bracket and mounted it above the pole above the camera. The bracket snapped in…
Last 4 Cross Struts Painted
The last 4 steel cross strut members were painted this afternoon. The next job is to weld and make joist brackets to anchor the hip ridge and valley box beams…
Steel “Cross” pieces Cleaned and Painted
Today was the job of cleaning and painting the newly formed Cross steel framework pieces. All 9 were washed in hot soapy water to remove all the dirt and oil…
Welding Commences on Roof Superstructure!
Today, the first major welding task was done, putting together the 9 pieces of steel framework that will fix the two long side of the box shaped superstructure (the steel…