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so ive run into a storage problem..the obvious answer was some industrial pallet racking..which ive been using and LOVING..but..i needed an evolutionary "jump"..lets face it..up at the 40 ive got 4 cars on shelves..why cant i do more of that......what spawned this was an issue with the county up on the 40..where..things need to get out of sight in 90 day...you get the drift...thus why things went up forsale...i only have rather limited space here at home soooooo what do without breaking the bank....put up shelves

total cost of materials 600$..mind you i got all the wood and skin for free as it had been laying around un used..16 foot 2x6's and 20+ sheets of 16 foot roofing..not to mention a crate of bracetry, braces, screws

first up ive been pondering this idea for YEARS...but this was the first time id sketched it out...everything ..every detail..and the numbers all played out.....so heres the sketch work ..some of it proposals to myself..some of it changes in plans and quick referances



 
next up..the "free" load..this had been sitting on the 40 for many years..in fact half the wood...the half i didnt grab is all rotten or eatin....the beams..while rated at about 3k a set..are old abused stuff we got on a pallet full of stuff at a buck a beam..ie scrap value....my initial plan was cut to suit...while still the plan i wanted something..stronger....

the plan calls for 2 "sets" of beams per car..this would have given me roughly 6k shelves 3 k per axle if you will..the problem is the grey units are over 9 foot..alot of cutting and welding..the orange are closer to my 8 foot goal but will be nightmareish to cut as someone added material to them




these however i couldnt turn down..16 beams rated at 5500 lbs a pop...so that will give me shelves rated at well over 10000lbs...what cant you park on that?..200$ for them

 
now to the "monsters" 5 heavy duty 27 foot uprights..now mind you these are EXPENSIVE i got em dirt cheep cause no one wants anything that tall..and cutting requires re-bracing, footing and such...however my design calls for 5@10foot 5@12 foot with an need for atleast 2@5foot as "crossing'" braces..end result ill have 5@5..total cost 400$..the cheepest i could find a single 10 or 12 foot was 50-90$ each...NONE of which were the HIGH rate units..these bastards are heavy..i cant move one on my own not even dragging it..and is almost twice as thick as my other shelving uprights..these should be rated at around 30-40k per upright





now..onto the cutting..due to brace placement in these uprights..i had to get creative and make more work for myself...cut them 10 foot from the botom and 10 foot from the top...this ment less brace re-working and the middle section @ 7 foot would be more useable.....i LOVE having a portaband to use..makes this soooooo much more doable





 
the cut, the remainder and the bits

so i spent yesterday in the heat cutting them to length..thankfully "most" of its shaded ish as you can see..course..a couple days ago in that 106 deg nonsense my and my wife were out loading the trailer as you saw it....that shit was brutal..the heat reflection off tall grass was downright pinfull..and im burnt to say the least

so..everything cut and set into piles...
the 10's i moved into my shop and staged my left as a welding bench...will get new plates and braces...the 7's set aside..and the ready to roll 10's standing upright
now i also moved to the shop all of the grey beams to slice down to length...this is to match my load bearing units..these will go as rafter support as well as help keeping the unit in square
ive allready cut out the old braces that were "wrong" for my cuts to reweld in at a new angle..but also sourced 5 more new braces from an old upright







 
much welding and some cutting later..the 5 cut are now braced and footed and ready to roll

next step..cutting the ends off 16 beams then cutting almost a foot out and rewelding on 16 end plates





 
Your biggest expense is gonna be welding materials! :doh:

Hell of a project... keep up the progress pictures.
 
comming along slowish.....for those few who have seen my back yard understand that when it rains..it must rain for many hours before water hits the ground..LARGE overgrowth...of which i had to take a huge "dent" out of...but assembly is about to happen

next step(last week) was to make the rafter line beams...all of which had to be shortened to length...to make life easier and faster i marked my tape measure so i didnt really need to think





 
various yard shorts..the "sorting" is 100% my wifes doing..and a damn fine job of it

everything for the build is laid out , marked, and grouped together for a faster assembly




 
onto clearing of the yard..many engines and truck loads of parts moved, sorted , and re-shelved and condensed




 
this mess DOUBLED in size before shrinking this morning..im in the proscess of cutting to manageable lengths

also..the base rear of the unit is up...and i may be adding a 5th "narrow" bay..a lil under 7ft..meaning while you could get a "normal" car into it you wouldnt want to try..a lloyd or bikes..EASY...for that mater the 5/6 bay unit could hold 2 lloyds and 8 bikes

 
a few of these shots were taken to give an idea of how much overhead cover i had..and still have...lets just say on google maps i do NOT exist..its just a green patch

tweaked the placement a lil more..anticipating that 5th skinny bay..and had to do 4 footing pads for the end overhanging where the driveway once was......

tommaro i intend to fully skin the back..and with a lil luck toss the roof on too..course i still have to cut the rear panels as its a stack of 20 16x3....and the rear line is a lil under 10ft





this shot was taken looking almost dead up out of my shop...note the steel at the top of the shot








 
MASSIVE step forward today..no more going out at night and seeing into the neighbors bedroom window..no more seeing the barking dog(muffled too)..and they have a kid on the way..so none of that either!!!!....and if you look closely they hung gunnysack curtains to not see into my back yard...

the roof is "up" but not screwed down...the end caps for the roof still need to go in and im going to end skin it...the end most one needs bigger footings..and i need 64 nuts n bolts to make sure none of the beams can come out..and i think im going to hang some florecent lights in it..cause who wouldnt want to be able to sit in the back yard with 10 cars lit up..also still need to platform..but those are made i just need to go pick them up and mod them

wifes been a HUGE help handing me stuff..man handling stuff around..on top of all the sorting shes done..and she needed some work shirts and snagged my old nuts shirt

i should also note all of this went up in under 6 hours today









 
I love the shade from trees...nothing I hate more then working on the vehicles in the hot beating sun!

I was having a hard time picturing how the finished product was going to look. Ahhh now I see....looks great! And if you run a gutter along the back side of the roof you can re-direct that water into the yappy dogs yard...;) :shifty:
 
roof all bolted down....except for "edging" it and guttering it..which i have the gutters i just dont have the corner flashing in hand...
 
"basicly" ready for loading....tho..there are a few more tweaks i want to do..like adding 4 outlets for "maintainers" a switch for the flood light..and a "kill" box for the whole thing..as well as lowwer overhead lighting..but the wirings roughed for the lowwer stuff and the upper stuff is 100% finished...2 more upper shelves will be going in for misc sheetmetal..its tight space but as you can see theres a tappered 8 foot x 2 foot area..sooo may as well use it

lights were free from c-list guy should have more in a few weeks...office turned house..wiring and flood i had...air comp liine out to the far end and 50 foot hose reel..i had...idealy i will be adding a "skinny" 5th bay for an aditional 2 more cars..but it will be 72-78 inches...while an a body "could" fit in that it would be UGLY tight..an alfa being 6 inches or so narrower than an A would still be tight but doable..but lloyds...yeah they are under 5 foot wide..so very good fit and room for bikes!






 
Impressive!
There is no way anything like that could be built around here, without some serious coin.
The County building department would want everything done to their specs - from in-ground support columns, to stamped structural steel to certified electrician-installed electrical hook-ups and certified trades people to construct the rest. ...But first, they'd want an engineer-approved building plan and a ground-cover layout map. :(

It's great that where you live you can get away without all that crap. This province has eliminated the do-it-yourself attitude. :(
 
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It's great that where you live you can get away without all that crap. This province has eliminated the do-it-yourself attitude. :(
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Yeah..... But you have to admit that it's largely because of so much hillbilly, dangerous stuff being done by unqualified people who were clueless. Which resulted in people being sold homes that they thought were built up to code only to find massive problems down the road. On top of that there are too many knuckledraggers with no training, credentials or skills calling themselves "contractors" and leaving the people that hire them with no recourse when they discover they have been left with shoddy work. Authorities have no choice but to clean things up...

My own garage is a good example. Built by the previous owner (a city cop) from reclaimed lumber, they decided they wanted taller walls, so they nailed two studs together beside each other to get the height they wanted. There is very little structural integrity to what they did. The wiring was another nightmare that spread into the whole house.

Here in this part of SK, you can still do your own construction, electrical, plumbing etc as a homeowner, but you have to pull the same permits and be subject to the same regulations and inspections as a contractor - and you can only get a permit to do your own home. You can't build shaky, hillbilly things that are structurally unsound. You also cant build things that are so unsightly that you negatively affect your neighbors property values....and I'm perfectly okay with that.
 
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We can do any construction, electrical or plumbing that we want, but it's supposed to meet local code. Contractors are restricted to these codes but a home owner can pretty much do as they like. :huh:

I did all my own wiring in my new garages , but I tend to go a little "over the top". There are times that I don't think the codes aren't good enough. :hmmm:
 
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