Category: Build Progress

 The task continues to prepare all the steel pieces ready for assembly. Today, the big I beams sitting outside, got dozens and dozens of small 5mm holes put into the…

 This afternoon, the task of drilling all the bigger holes (13mm in diameter) continued and was finished today, using the hired “mag drill” machine with its core drill bit. The…

 Finishing in the dark this evening, we had drilled dozens of 13mm holes in the I beam pieces standing outside on timber planks!   We had to turn over the…

After getting the Mag Drill we finished off cutting the angled ends of the beam ties. Then we started marking and drill holes in the beams outside. The beams will…

 Today, drilling and cutting of steel pieces continues with the 9 pieces which tie the front and back beams together.. These are about 2.6m long 50mm square tubes with two…

Today, in the workshop, lots of pieces were drilled, like for example, the 10mm thick plates with 13mm holes in the 4 corners (7 of these, one for each leg).

The work continued today in preparing all the pieces of steel work, cutting some to the correct sizes, some being drilled with bolt holes and screw holes. There are hundreds…

Today, now that the steel has all arrived, all cross checked against original order list, the major task of preparing the pieces and practicing the various welds and drilling tasks…

This afternoon, the steel arrived and was off loaded. The lorry came backwards down the Loke. The big I-beam pieces were offloaded down inside the house itself, lying on concrete…

 It was a fairly easy and quick decision to place our order for the Steel pieces with the one company that was pretty good on the price (not the cheapest…